Director Support Manuals

Here are the curent Support Manuals and Documentation for Macromedia Director MX 2004. Using Director, you can develop high-performance multimedia content and applications for CDs, DVDs, kiosks, and the Internet. Director’s product manuals are available in PDF format for download or in HTML for online viewing.

Director Support Manuals


Getting Started with Director (HTML | PDF 1816kb, 84 pages)

This support manual, Getting Started with Director contains the essential information that you need to get started, including information about installing the latest version of Director. This manual also guides you through the workspace and offers a tutorial, designed for those who are new to Director.

This free Director book contains the following chapters:

• Introduction
• Configuring Director
• Getting to Know the Workspace
• Building Your First Basic Movie

Using Director explains how to use all of the features and functionality offered in Director. This is a printed version of the electronic documentation included with the product. This support manual includes comprehensive descriptions and detailed step-by-step instructions that explain how to use all of the features in Director.

This free Director book contains the following chapters:

• Score, Stage, and Cast
• Sprites
• Animation
• Bitmaps
• Vector Shapes
• Color, Tempo, and Transitions
• Text
• Using Flash, Flash Components, and Other Interactive Media Types
• Sound and Synchronization
• Using Digital Video
• Behaviors
• Navigation and User Interaction
• 3D Basics
• The 3D Cast Member, 3D Text, and 3D Behaviors
• Working with Models and Model Resources
• Controlling the 3D World
• Movies in a Window
• Using the XML Parser Xtra
• Making Director Movies Accessible
• Managing Memory
• Managing and Testing Director Projects
• Packaging Movies for Distribution
• Using Shockwave Player

Director Scripting Reference provides a complete reference of the Director application programming interfaces (APIs), including both Lingo and JavaScript syntax. This is a printed version of the electronic documentation included with the product. This reference manual provides conceptual and how-to information about scripting in Director, and also provides reference descriptions and examples for the scripting application programming interfaces (APIs) that you use to write scripts.

This free Director book contains the following chapters:

• Introduction
• Director Scripting Essentials
• Writing Scripts in Director
• Debugging Scripts in Director
• Director Core Objects
• Media Types
• Scripting Objects
• 3D Objects
• Constants
• Events and Messages
• Keywords
• Methods
• Operators
• Properties

Behaviors are prewritten Lingo scripts that allow you to quickly add interactivity to your movies. This Director tutorial will teach you about the behaviors included in Director MX 2004.
Building Your First 3D Movie in Director

Learn the skills you need to build 3D effects in a Director movie, including creating 3D text, using behaviors to rotate a model, changing camera angles, and enabling navigation. 
Download a printable version of Building Your First 3D Movie in Director, including the tutorial’s collateral material. (.zip, 1.6MB)

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