Macromedia Director 8.5 provides an exciting environment for composing interactive, attractive and media rich movies suitable for the web. Starting with an introduction to the development environment, Fiaz Hussain presents a quick and effective guide to the powerful components that make up Macromedia Director 8.5.
Using a hands-on approach, with plenty of illustrations, Essential Director 8.5 fast:
- Introduces the panels, windows and tools required for producing attractive and informative movies
- Explains the role of casts and sprites in making appealing movies
- Shows various ways of designing, developing and publishing animations
- Demonstrates how different media types can be integrated to create lively movies
- Illustrates the use of behaviours to add interactivity and dynamism in movies
- Provides a quick guide to producing Shockwave movies suitable for web delivery
Essential Director 8.5 fast gives an easy explanation of the basic tools needed to create dazzling entertainment, interactive product demonstrations and learning applications suitable for corporate web sites.
Examples used in the book can be found in the accompanying Essential series web site http://www.essential-series.com.

Contents

• Director Environment
• Director Basics Cast and Cast Members
• Producing a Score
• Editing Sprites
• Animated Sprites
• Colour and Graphic Tools
• Behaviors and Scripts
• Publishing Movies