Director 11
OMG!! Yes they really did it! Adobe announced Director 11 . I really don’t know what to think now… during my study I was infested by Director while it was quite clear Flash was becomming the new standard for online interactivity. For a moment it looked like Director died together with Macromedia, but NO! Adobe actually thinks they can reanimate it again. And what are the stunning new features? I like these ones the most:
- Enhanced user interface!! Thats great, because the interface really could use that.. so what does it look like??
That is one hell of a change compared to mx 2004 - Windows® support (now includes Windows Vista®) Are these features???? duh, ofcourse it needs to run on the current Operating Systems.- Mac support (now includes Intel® processors) Wow, intel support!!- DirectX 9 support .. ok that’s kewl- Advanced physics with included AGEIA™ PhysX™ engine .. also kewl So in general I can’t really tell what the idea of this version of Director is, I think that they wan’t to make an easy game develop environment, which is cool. But in the meantime Flash and AS3 are also getting a high performance on 3d (like papervision) and the flash player is widely supported. So what is going to happen to Director? Will Director be able to create AIR applications? Will there be a decent Flash Director Meshup or is it just a wast of shitloads of money? We’ll see.