<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have fond memories of learning Director in my first new media and electronic music production class at McGill in 97…<div><br></div><div>It was certainly the most 'interactive' program I had seen at the time:)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 2013-02-11, at 6:48 PM, Maia Engeli <<a href="mailto:maia@enge.li">maia@enge.li</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">It started as MacroMind Director, so I googled it: 1987<br>m.<br><br>On 2013-02-11 18:42 , Peter Courtemanche wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">How old is Director? I seem to remember using it around 1990 or 91.<br><br>bests<br>peter<br><br>On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Jim Andrews <<a href="mailto:jim@vispo.com">jim@vispo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">It ain't dead yet. Director 12 ships.<br><br>"Publish to iOS devices workflow - Adobe Director 12 can now publish games<br>directly to iOS devices, through a simple, yet powerful workflow. Existing<br>games can be republished to run on the iOS platform. Enhance the gaming<br>experience by incorporating new support for accelerometers and other device<br>specific interactions."<br><br>ja<br><br>----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Crisman" <<a href="mailto:rcrisman@adobe.com">rcrisman@adobe.com</a>><br>To: <<a href="mailto:jim@vispo.com">jim@vispo.com</a>><br>Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 5:02 PM<br>Subject: Director 12 ships<br><br><br>Hey Jim,<br><br>This was weird-one of my contractors (Flash programmer between gigs) noticed<br>this in his (Japanese) twitter feed and told me. Director 12 is shipping.<br><a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/director.html">http://www.adobe.com/products/director.html</a><br><br>I don't have the "Hopper-Rex" email list address handy, figured I'd let you<br>know this way.<br><br><br><br>What are the new features in Adobe Director<br>12.0?<http://www.adobe.com/products/director/faq.html><br><br>See the comprehensive list of new Director 12.0<br>features<http://www.adobe.com/products/director/features.html>. Top new<br>features include:<br>* Publish to iOS devices workflow - Adobe Director 12 can now<br>publish games directly to iOS devices, through a simple, yet powerful<br>workflow. Existing games can be republished to run on the iOS platform.<br>Enhance the gaming experience by incorporating new support for<br>accelerometers and other device specific interactions.<br>* Stereoscopy with Adobe Director 12 - Using Lingo Script or JAVA<br>Script, Stereoscopy can be enabled with appropriate Depth settings in Adobe<br>Director 12. Shockwave Player 12 converts the shockwave 3D content to<br>stereoscopy mode at run time without any extra effort. Game player can<br>choose to experience the immersive stereoscopic mode at anytime during game<br>play.<br>* Exciting new textures and shaders - Make your Director movies a<br>visual treat by taking advantage of the exciting new textures, such as<br>PerlinNoise Texture, CubeMap Render Texture and shaders, such as Fresnel<br>Shader.<br>* Exciting new Post-processing effects - You can now add several<br>exciting effects, such as Convolution filter, Adjust Color filter, Depth of<br>Field, Bloom Effect, Night Vision, etc., to visually enhance movies.<br>* Enriched audio capabilities - Make your games sound as real as<br>they look with 5.1 channel surround sound, real-time mixing, audio effects,<br>and DSP filters.<br>* Enhanced video capabilities - Create an enhanced multimedia<br>experience using H.264 video integration that lets you play full-screen,<br>high-definition video in your multimedia applications and games.<br>* New 3D importer for Google SketchUp - Rapidly create rich 3D<br>environments using the many ready-made 3D models available via Google<br>SketchUp and Google 3D Warehouse.<br>* Streaming support - Achieve an even wider variety of rich visual<br>effects, including blur, drop shadow, bevel, glow, and more, with bitmap<br>filters you can apply through the user interface or scripting.Take advantage<br>of Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) to stream audio and video over the<br>Internet.<br>* New datatype - Save development time and reduce<br>application-loading time using ByteArray datatype, which lets you easily<br>access and manipulate binary data.<br>* Enhanced physics engine - Create new levels of advanced dynamic<br>motion and interaction in your games and simulations thanks to an enhanced<br>physics engine that offers support for dynamic concave rigid bodies.<br>* Enhanced productivity with multiple undo/redo - Experiment freely,<br>knowing you can instantly undo or redo multiple steps in one click.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>x mailing list<br>x@vispo.com<br>http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com<br></blockquote><br><br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>x mailing list<br><a href="mailto:x@vispo.com">x@vispo.com</a><br>http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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