Product Description

Special Edition Using Macromedia Director MX is a comprehensive guide to creating and publishing Director movies.

The book includes complete coverage of the newest version of Director, from advanced issues such as Lingo scripting and multi-user applications on how to employ the 3D API.

This edition includes more coverage of multi-user applications, using 3D media, efficient sprite editing with the context-sensitive Property Inspector, increased control of cast members through the Cast Manager, vector drawing tools that add illustration capability, and special imaging effects and transition behaviors to add pizzazz and drama to applications.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #172696 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 840 pages

From the Back Cover

Special Edition Using Macromedia Director MX is a comprehensive guide to creating and publishing Director movies.

The book includes complete coverage of the newest version of Director, from advanced issues such as Lingo scripting and multi-user applications on how to employ the 3D API.

This edition includes more coverage of multi-user applications, using 3D media, efficient sprite editing with the context-sensitive Property Inspector, increased control of cast members through the Cast Manager, vector drawing tools that add illustration capability, and special imaging effects and transition behaviors to add pizzazz and drama to applications.

About the Author

Gary Rosenzweig is the chief engineer, founder, and owner of CleverMedia, a game and multimedia development company in Denver, Colorado. This is his 10th book on Macromedia Director and Flash.

Gary has degrees from both Drexel University in Philadelphia and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He has been building multimedia projects since 1989. CleverMedia was founded in 1995 and has produced more than 250 Shockwave and Flash games for CleverMedia's sites and other companies.

Gary lives in Denver, Colorado, with wife Debby, daughter Luna, cat Lucy, and dog Natasha. Debby owns The Attic Bookstore (http://atticbookstore.com/), a used bookstore in Denver. Other than computers and the Internet, Gary also enjoys film, camping, classic science fiction books, writing, and video games. Some of Gary's other books are Advanced Lingo for Games (Que Publishing) Flash MX ActionScript for Fun and Games (Que Publishing) Sams Teach Yourself Flash MX ActionScript in 24 Hours (Sams Publishing) Personal Home Page: http://www.garyrosenzweig.com/ Email: http://www.garyrosenzweig.com/email.html

Customer Reviews

Intermediate Plus!
I haven't had a chance to go into it properly BUT this book is definitely for those that know a little about this programme already.
This is indicated on the back cover ("LEVEL:intermediate/advanced")- not in the blurb!

Having said this the book is well written and does contain everything that director has to offer in a refernce form, not a tutorial manner.

Good - but not to start with

essential
This is an essential book for anybody who works with Director. The author really knows his stuff,and leaves no rock unturned. If you are a newbie to director and looking for a book with tutorials etc, this is probably not the book for you. Most of the examples are one framed lingo based scripts.

The information is presented in an easy to read format - and each topic is described in a clear and lucid manner. The tips and "did you know" sections that appear throughout the book are are wealth of knowledge that can only be gained through working with Director for many years.

What tickles me though, is after 800 pages of describing Directors funcionality - the cd rom is written in Flash.