Lingo: Working with 3D in Director
3D
Basics of Director 3D
- Director 8.5 3D tutorial for Director users
- Director 8.5 tutorial for 3D users
- Getting oriented to 3D
- Extruding 3D text with Lingo
- Moving models and cameras
- Controlling the surface appearance of models
- Using backdrops and overlays
- Using primitives
- Optimizing 3D performance
- Preparing 3D content for Shockwave 3D
Intermediate Director 3D Features
- Playing animations
- Collision detection
- Using picking Lingo
- Using 3D particle systems
- Optimizing resources with the LOD and SDS modifiers
- Performing mesh deformation
- Streaming 3D cast members
- Using the 3D SpeedPort Xtra
Havoc Physics Xtra
Havok is the leading provider of real time physics technology. The Havok Xtra is integrated with Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio to enable fully interactive 3D and physical content online. See TechNote 15333 About the Havok Physics Xtra for more information.
TechNotes
- 19175—Status of the Havok Physics Xtra
- 16734—Some 3D motions cannot be cloned
- 16700—3D text is uneditable in the Macintosh version of Director
- 15952—W3D members are not displaying in a Projector
- 15929—Shockwave 3D acceleration and performance testing
- 15814—Shockwave 3D content displays 'static' when using OpenGL
- 15585—3DS Max World-space modifiers do not export correctly
- 15430—Preventing fatal errors with Havok's rigidBody correction and deletion
- 15428—Playing 3D content with Macromedia Shockwave Player
- 15414—Using rotation property does not rotate a model 360 degrees
- 15297—Troubleshooting 3D rendering effects
- 15295—Exporting W3D files from 3D Studio Max
- 16737—MouseUpOutside event does not work with W3D members
- 15286—Optimizing file size, performance, and streaming of 3D content
