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hi I have a movie that loads a MIAW.....as I load the MIAW

Hello everyone, This is the first time I am posting here, so excuse me if I posted at the wrong place. My problem: I want to create a 2D arcade game - I am sure you are all familiar with it - it's that classic game where you have the platform at the bottom of the screen (moving left and right)...

Hi, I'm having problems trying to create glass effects. I've created a bottle and I want to make it look transparent and have labels on it. I have the effect that I need except the bottle is solid. Is there any examples that I can look at? Cheers for any help on this. Simon.

Javascript is out since 2004, why there is not a Javascript forum here, just Lingo? And what this multiuser server forum is doing here?Multiser server dont even came with Director anymore, isnt it?

I have a little game where some bolls are coming and going in different positions. My prb is that when I put this script on another sprite it works just first run. When movie loops it?s just the first sprite which works with the script and the second is unvisible. property pPositioning,...

I've just finished a full adventure game. I fixed bugs and game links in Director Authoring Environment and it works perfect! Then I published my game: 1. Update my CST files to protected CCT, and my main DIR to DCR 2. Make a stub projector that's going to the main DCR file I was expecting...

Hi there, I'm looking for a bit of code that can ensure a precise frame rate on any computer. Something where I can set the tempo to 999 then adjust the frames per second through lingo. I've seen something on delta timing but that's applied to each sprite individually, I'd prefer to...

I've created a dynamic (scrolling) text field in Flash MX 2004 Pro. The text contains links to webpages. The links work in the published Flash SWF but not when I place the SWF in Director. Please help? Lars:confused;

Hi, I'm having trouble getting 4 mpg files to work in an existing show. On import, the members show the little Quicktime icon with the folded corner, but not thumbnails of the videos -- just a black background in the cast. When I pull them onto the stage, their bounding boxes aren't the...

transforms are actually 4x4 matrixes, right? after doing some scaling, rotating and translating to a transform, if you print (put) one to the message window, you get something like: -- transform(7.00000,0.00000,0.00000,0.00000, 0.00000,8.00000,0.00000,0.00000,...

Hi Ritesh Banglani , With the new version of Director (which will contain 3d enhancements) , will the Havok behaviours (i mean the havok xtra and lingo codes that are related with havok) , multiuser xtra behaviours and 3d lingo behaviours be still supported ? Or do we have to...

Hi, What I've managed to achieve so far is...You place lots of different sprites of all different shapes sizes in an area on the stage and I create a stage image of the composition. Some of the Sprites contain alpha's on them which i then build into a MAIN image. Everything works fine,...

:cool; Dear forum i had created animation using the old mac system 0s 9 and director 4 .. i would love to convert these director 4 movies and files into the current director and make them into NTSC quicktime movies or avi,,, for my portfolio..i went to School of visual arts in nyc back in...

Hello, I'm sure there is a simple script that once a user launches the projector it will set their system volume to 50%, then when they exit the projector there volume will return. Please help Thanks, Devin

Googling, trying to find some usefull info how to use writereturn() I have a textmember with some text, opening the saved file looks wrong in notepad. No new lines. Now I simply write the file like this: writeString(fileObj,member("mytext").text) all lingo cheers

Morning all, Quicktime and Windows Media support multiple audio tracks in a single .mov or ..wmv file. I have a couple .mov's and .wmv's with 4 different audio tracks in each one (such a space saver). On my menu in director, i have 4 buttons which point to the same video. how do i have it so...

I would like to have a script run in the background while the user continues to interact with the user interface. Example: 1) Perhaps an event such as EnterFrame would start a new thread, which we'll call Script X 2) The user clicks a button, which toggles a global flag between true and...

Hello, I am releasing a shockwave ODE physics xtra for windows but I can't find the xtra packaging application. Also it would be nice to develop a MAC version but similar problem, can't find the compiler needed for creating xtras. In the meantime you can try the demo at...

In my little silly game I have some small "stars" faling down from heaven. The stars is made in Flash and rotating. My little monster should avoid this rotating stars but he always get hurted by the area round the star. I can?t get it transparent other with "background transparent" and there?s...

Hi I have created a director movie and when I publish it for the browser one of my animations doesnt work. All of my other animations work fine just this one. The animation in question works when in director. I have checked that the animation is linked to the correct file. I have compared...

I have game where a small monster is fooling around between some small houses. He should not be capable to walk trough the houses and because of that I use intersects to avoid the different sprites where the buildings are. But every sprite who is downwards the middle of the sceen, he can walk...

I have found an old Macintosh director 4.0 projector file on a floppy disk that I did 10 years ago when I was young freshman in college first playing with the magic of Director. I believe it is in a classic Mac OS HQX format. The file says ?Filetype APPL creator PJ93? from I Googled it...

Hi folks. I am making a simple Bingo game in Director. 1. generate a random number up to 75; Number=random(75) 2. check if this number is on a list 3. if not the number is valid and code executed to display the "bingo ball" 4. add the number to the list and repeat.

We are trying to create a hybrid DVD (Windows/Mac) using the standard Director process that has worked successfully with CDs (stub projectors, Xtras Folders, Movie Folders, etc.). Apparently there is a 2GB cap on the Mac volume in the custom hybrid formatting for DVDs. Does anyone here have...

Hello all, I have a project that consists of 18 .dir files and about 689 files, each of which are separated into 17 different folders. My .dir's externally link to these files. The total size of the files are 643 MB. My projector (.exe), is only 4.10 MB and that includes the 2 Xtras (Buddy...

If you want to go deeper in Director programming, which language would you choose, Lingo or javscript? Please answer thinking about Director 11 or CS3. Maybe next version only will support one (I am guessing) Thanks

Hi, in the begining of director project there is AVI movie, i compressed it with "Microsoft Video1" compressor, is this AVI movie will run without missung on every PC or it must require codec..? regards newmfa