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Suggested readings and links to other resources.
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of other web sites. Use your own judgement as to the relevance and
suitability of whatever information they provide. |
SEE ALSO the Download Area for reference documentation. |
Suggested Readings in Interactive Design
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includes related topics.
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| My Bookmarks at del.icio.us
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Includes most of these below, plus many others.
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| LINK CATEGORIES BELOW: |
| General Director Information |
| Artist’s
Sites |
| XTRA Resources |
| Shockwave 3D Resources |
| Game Design Links |
| Web Design Books and Links |
| Physical Computing |
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General
Director Information |
"Director
QuickStart"
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Macromedia. Aimed at Flash users learning Director, but good for any
beginner.
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| Director Tutorials and Articles |
| Macromedia. Over 40 example movies and explanations. |
| Director Sample Movies |
| Macromedia. Downloadable movies covering many typical techniques. |
Director
Developer Center
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| Macromedia. Advanced examples
and articles, including "Getting Started" issues. |
| Developer
Dispatch |
| Gary Rosenzweig's very useful site for
Lingo and Actionscript development. |
| _undocumented Lingo_ |
| Links, tips, and articles. |
| UpdateStage |
| Advanced code examples
(including info on writing Xtras), articles, support for their Xtra products, a
great Director Quirks list, and a comprehensive
review of other
products and utilities that work with Director. |
| "Animation
Math in Lingo" |
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| Includes general
overview of Lingo math techniques, physics formulas, and demo code. |
"lingoworkshop.com" |
| Advanced Lingo techniques,
code (including Imaging Lingo), and articles. |
| Mediamacros
Inc. |
| Support
for their XTRAS plus lots of useful contributed articles and tips, and
an active forum. |
| Imaging
Lingo Basics |
| Chuck Neal of MediaMacros
gives an excellent primer on the features of
imaging Lingo. Check the "Resources" section for his
DevCon
presentation file. |
| Introduction to Imaging Lingo
by Zac Belado at Director-Online |
| No Sprites! Imaging Lingo by James Newton at Director-Online |
| Dreamlight: Developing a Shockwave Game |
| A case-history of Verticce. |
| Robotduck: Programming in Director |
| Basics and a few advanced concepts. |
| Dean’s
Director and Lingo Tutorials |
| Basics, Parent-Child examples, and Shockwave 3D techniques. |
Artist’s Sites |
| SkeletonMoon |
| Paul Catanese's site. Check out his Experiments
page. |
| Setpixel
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Charles Forman's
site. Home of the legendary Infinity Bobs imaging Lingo piece. Also note
his
experiments
with computer vision in Director. |
| toxi |
| Works with Imaging Lingo, Actionscript, and Processing. |
| Eric Singer |
| Musician, artist, performer, interactive performance systems. |
| Daniel Rozin |
| Artist, educator, developer. Specializing in interactive sculptural installations. |
XTRA Resources |
| XTRAs (plug-in's for Director). A directory of most of them is at Macromedia's
site... |
Director Exchange
See also "Beyond the Mouse" about using XTRAs with external inputs. |
| SerialXTRA at PhysicalBits |
| Buddy API |
| Get and set many OS properties including file access, fonts, registry settings, and version info. |
| Using GPS data with DirectorMX
and AppleScript |
| Zeus Productions. |
| Launching, printing, and AppleScript Xtras. |
| asFFT Xtra by Antoine Schmitt |
| Powerful real-time sound input analysis. |
| Amplitude Xtra. |
| Analyzes sounds playing from castmembers. |
| TrackThemColorsPro Xtra by Daniel
Rozin. |
| Video input processing tools. |
YOU STOPPED HERE!!!!!!
| Scirius SetMouse Xtra and others. |
| Print-O-Matic Xtra. |
| Excellent control of all aspects of printing content from Director including detailed formatting. |
| DirectXtras. |
| Sells a variety of powerful xtras. |
| Midi-IO Xtra |
| For Windows and PPC Macs. |
| Tabuleiro |
| Mpeg, Audio, Database, and Web XTRAs. |
| Xtrasy |
| Very current, searchable directory of available XTRAs. |
