Director Diaries

Some years ago, I worked on a project, in which Director was used in a specific way – whole animation scenes were fitted and after that the .dir files were used for Bink video files. So, we had to work with big scores – 50 channels, 300 – 400 frames. This provoked a lot of tasks which demanded automation. ScoreCommander is…

As a person whose experience in programming is connected mainly to Director and Lingo, I often searched but never found a comparatively simple and clear tutorial that describes step by step what is necessary to do in order to get an application, which communicates in a duplex way to a MySQL database. Here I will try to explain how to achieve …

With this engine you can easily and quickly animate different properties of such objects as sprites, models, cameras, etc. In case you need to add extra functionality you can use the Plug-in architecture to write your own plugin. All of the animations are time-based. Below are listed Tween Engine’s public methods and properties: STATIC METHODS …

This engine is based on Greensock Tweening Platform and adapted to Lingo. The full list of its methods can be found at the end of this article. In short  –  with the help of this engine you can easily and quickly animate different properties of such objects as sprites, models, cameras, etc. In case you need to …