embedded director movies

[Mamão - Toolshed]

	Hello people, i've been trying for the last 3 years to use embbedded 
movies the right way, no success..

The main problem I face is that the scripts I write in the embedded movie 
that accesss its sprites, tend to mix
up everything and endup accessing the main movie.

example

if I put a script on the embedded movie:

on mouseenter me
   (sprite 10).blend = 50
end


lets suppose that this script is put on the (sprite 2) of the embedded 
movie, when the mouse pointer passes
over that sprite, the (sprite 10) of the MAIN movie gets its blend level 
changed, and not the (sprite 10) at the
embedded one?!?!?

what in the universe make it works like that?? Why not use the same _root 
and _parent syntax as Flash?

and better, whats the syntax to change the blend level of a sprite on the 
embedded movie?

Luiz 

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tables and popup's

[Mamão - Toolshed]

	I know that there are Tables and popup's xtras. Where can I find demo 
versions of both?
I've found only on popup xtra demo, but no table xtra yet.


any link would be appreciated


Luiz

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Re: 3d lingo collision detection

[Mamão - Toolshed]

I also want to implement that, but at another level..

You can use modelsUnderRay to make an object follow a non-regular terrain.


How can I make an object walk inside a house for instance??
I actually want to do exactly what the OCTREE COLISION xtra does. (has 
anyone got that xtra to work outside noisecrime's demo??)


Luiz

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Re: OT: Holiday Wishes and Fond Farewells

[Mamão - Toolshed]

is the list dead?

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events from browser (urgent help)

[Mamão - Toolshed]

	I have a shockwave movie that NEEDS to receive a message from a browser in 
order to change its content (in this case the content is a 3D model)
the problem is that I wasn't thinking about 'the browser issue' that says 
that it EvalScript does not work on MANY new browsers..


What do I do??
can I put a property inside the embedded tag on the html content?
how can I read anything from the HTML (periodically)?

any help would be appreciated,

Luiz

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Re: MX opinion!!

[Mamão - Toolshed]

weird, it was availiable yesterday

anyone wants me to upload it?? ;)



--
Very good colapsible menus

I liked very much the user interface improvements - the screen usage 
reduced a lot.

I tried the flash integration, seems to be very nice (not enought time to 
test it all)

The object inspector is VERY good, the new debugger lets you see all the 
variables in a categorized way, local, global and properties

The sad part is that there is NO update on the 3D engine, that in my 
opinion, needs 'little' rework:
 - Zsorting on transparent polygons needs a fix (core engine rework)
 - antialiasing improvement
- progressive antialiasing is something that could be implemented, 
like viewpoint (when you stop moving, it starts to antialias)
- switching antialiasing on/off can be slow sometimes, it takes a few 
frames before it is turned off


Luiz

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Re: QTVR FOV x (PAN & TILT)

[Mamão - Toolshed]

At 01:12 PM 12/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:

Wow; I'm on a PIII 450 and it's feeling a little slow, even with 640MB of
RAM.
With computers as cheap as they are nowadays, I'm surprised anybody's still
using a PII...


I assume you don't live in South America as I do ;)

the prices here are almost twice what you pay, the releases are delayed and 
the dolar goes up
every day beyond our currency

anyway, does anyone knows anything about that FOV number that I asked 
before ?? (hehe the thread is loosing the subject)



Luiz

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Re: QTVR FOV x (PAN & TILT)

[Mamão - Toolshed]

nop I do author in a p2-350 while at home

a p2-350 is arround 30% faster than a K6-2-500

AMD shoud have changed their name after the K6, it really sucks! eheh


Luiz

At 07:27 AM 12/13/2002 +0100, you wrote:

. (K6-III-500Mhz wich is our standard bad-machine)
>

What???
Am I the only one authoring on a P2 450MHz?

Guess I'd better stick a bigger sock to the mantelpiece this year...


Bertil Flink
Creative Media
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QTVR FOV x (PAN & TILT)

[Mamão - Toolshed]

I developing a CD-ROM that has an image archive that will contain pictures 
that can be zoomed
Thwy are very big (arround 2000x2000)pixels, so we choosed to implement it 
using QTVR panorama
with Warpmode set to #none.

It works fine standalone.

The next step in development is showing a thumbnail of the image with the 
zoom-square marked on it.
This is the part where I am facing problems - the relations beetween FOV 
and MAX/MIN PAN makes no
sense, it seems that there is a non-linear relation beetween those.

The panorama has a 0.81 pixel aspect and its being displayed as a 4:3 
aspect(1.333) sprite (this is one of the examples)

if I zoomout at maximun I get a (sprite n).fieldofview equals to something 
arround 67!?!?!
why not 100 degrees that is the 'node sweep' of my QTVR movie??

ok then, but where this number comes from??

I need to make a relation beetween the s.FieldOfView property and the 
percentage of the image that is displayed.
after that I need to get the max/min pan for each FOV value... sounds dificult

even if I get to do that, i will still need to do that for the TILT 
property too


Am I in a mess?? ehhe

I wonder if should I move back to a big bitmap + mask - but that runs very 
bad on older machines (K6-III-500Mhz wich is our standard bad-machine)



please, any help would be very appreciated (it is due dec 20th) and its 
only one part of the CD.

Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas


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communication with the browser

[Mamão - Toolshed]

Ok, I know that I can send messages to the browser using 'externalevent'

How can I send a message (#string, #integer or a proplist) from JavaScript 
or even the HTML on the home page to the
shockwave movie?

Luiz Gustavo 

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Re: #bytesTotal

[Mamão - Toolshed]

I will download at least 20 files, and at least 15K each

If i preloadnething them all, sometimes one or 2 are missed

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Re: #bytesTotal

[Mamão - Toolshed]

The system that I am creating will work with ASP only, I bet that there the 
ASP guy will be able to implement
an equivalent script.


Thanks

Luiz

At 07:23 PM 12/3/2002 +, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Howdy-Tzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > the thing is:
> > How can I get the 'BYTESTOTAL' information of a file WITHOUT having to
> > download or preload this file?
>
> I don't believe you can. In order to find out about the file, you've
> got to touch it in some way or another. I could be wrong but I think
> you're stuck with that. :\

HTTP includes no method to query the size of a file. Plus, some files will
return a content-length header, and some won't, so bytesTotal is unreliable
at best. Probably the best workaround is a little PHP script; something like
this:



Then do getNetText( "getsize.php?f=images/bigimage.jpg" ), etc. You could,
of course, extend this simple script to query the size of more than one file
in one go, which would be a good idea if you want to load several files
since the TCP/IP connection overhead will far outweigh the download time for
a tiny script like this.

- Robert







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#bytesTotal

[Mamão - Toolshed]

Ok, if I tell lingo:

x = preloadNetThing(URL)


I will be able to get MANY informations from it, using
GetStreamStatus(x).bytestotal
GetStreamStatus(x).bytessofar, etc


the thing is:
How can I get the 'BYTESTOTAL' information of a file WITHOUT having to 
download or preload this file?

Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas

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octree colision

[Mamão - Toolshed]

	I am looking for a 'avatar-alike' colision detection and slide - the best 
results I saw under director
was that Octree Xtra developed by noisecrime. Is that an exclusive xtra for 
them to use?? do they sell it??

I need it bad 8) is there another xtra to do that?


Luiz Gustavo

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RE: ANN: Director MX (bugfixed?)

[Mamão - Toolshed]

At 01:06 PM 11/25/2002 -0800, you wrote:

All,

> Any notice about the Zsorting error?? did macromedia fixed that??

This is a well known issue that did not get addressed this release (keep 
reading).

> And what about new 3D properties (i bet yes).

There were no changes made to the 3D Asset Xtra and its rendering 
capabilities (I think a few *minor* issues were fixed - the z-sorting 
issue requires changes to the core rendering layer and that just didn't 
happen). The 3D feature set is the same as it was in Director 8.5 with the 
exception of being able to inspect 3D cast members from within Director's 
UI now. There is a new window called the Object Inspector which allows you 
to "look into" your 3D members. That's really more of a UI feature than it 
is a 3D one though as it applies to many objects in Director, 3D being 
only one of those.

I figure that's not the news you were looking for but that's the case this 
release.

sad to listen that 8(


I am happy that the object inspector was created, i wonder if can I 'save' 
the geometry dynamically created using lingo.


When a full feature-list will be released anyway?


Luiz

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RE: ANN: Director MX (bugfixed?)

[Mamão - Toolshed]

Any notice about the Zsorting error?? did macromedia fixed that??

I made a demo almost an year ago that shows this 'bug'.
 - change the alpha of the shader on the slider that is on the right part 
of the screen showing (100.000)
 - click on the object to see the result with other models


(i know now that it is a zSORTING error, and not a ZBUFFER error)


And what about new 3D properties (i bet yes). Avatar?? colision detection??
no specs about that out yet?




Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas

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Re: PNG refpoint (again)

[Mamão - Toolshed]

I still can't get to do that




lets supose that > is the beggining of the stage, and < is the end and 
"|pic|" is the picture:


the picture looks like this in fireworks AND in authoring inside director

>--|pic|--<

as you can see, its a full frame PNG (800x600) that its actual 'effective 
rect area' does not fill the
stage at all


the problem is that its being displayed in the projector as following:


>|pic|<

Now we can see that the projector center's the image's and forgets about 
the real reference point
and creates a new one, in the center of the 'effective rect area'.

how do I make the PROJECTOR work just like director in authoring mode??

PS: this kind of 'unexpected behavior'  under the projector runtime 
sometimes kill us!



any other help would be appreciated, thanks


Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas

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RE: opening pdf's from director

[Mamão - Toolshed]

Yes, i want something like that, but from DOS prompt, I am expecting people 
using 64Mb RAM computers
to use this program, so I can't affor to let a browser open the PDF.

thanks anyway


Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas

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Re: opening pdf's from director

[Mamão - Toolshed]

Nono, i want to open the PDF OUTSIDE director, but in a determined page 
that I choose FROM director

8)


Thanks for your time.


Luiz

At 09:49 AM 11/22/2002 +0100, you wrote:
'Open' is the syntax I used before...but..

Tried to do so with Sound Forge for opening file, setting 'mono, 8-bit' and
start recording...but since the software is designed in stopping at a 
scene of
first you are restricted to first, unless the software is sensitive to hidden
...

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PNG refpoint

[Mamão - Toolshed]

Hello, i have a project where the PNG's were suposed to be aligned with the 
same centerpoint

the problem is that they are loosing their reference that they have ONLY in 
the projectors!!
this is a little stupid!!

I really hate when something works fine in director and does not in the 
projector!

please send me any clarifications.



I am using the following code

pic = member "dumbpic"

pic.image = image(800,600,32)

importfileinto pic, path (or path, pic!?!?)



-

that code is ok in director, but why not in the projector??

using director 8.5


Luiz

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opening pdf's from director

[Mamão - Toolshed]

I am using budyapi to find acrobat reader path.
I would like to be able to open the acrobat document in a certain page 
(e,g, 75)

not on the first one

is that possible without using $xtras$?


Luiz 

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Re: Since we're on the topic of bugs

[Mamão - Toolshed]

This use to happen when I had the wrong slash in the directory separation 
while browsing beetween dir's ..
when I changed to the "\" Backslash, it started to work fine.


But still, sometimes it happened anyway (maybe some scatered wrong programming)

and it was under director 7 (never did a big project like that in D8 or 8.5)


Luiz




At 03:48 PM 11/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Anyone know if there's a cure to the periodic "This movie was created with
an older version of Director..." bug? It's been happening quite frequently
to me lately, and has really gotten under my skin (each alert doesn't really
chew up that much time, but it's a cumulative annoyance).

-Kurt

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Director 8.6??

[Mamão - Toolshed]

	Ok, i know that this subject pops on the list all the time but why 
macromedia does not say anything about release dates or update-releases??


Can we expect an update to director before the new Year??

I still complain with 2 major issues about 8.5
 - Zsorting bug or error - it makes impossible to use almost ANY alpha channel
 - MacosX release - I don't use it, but many users are in that platform 
now and mac's are being shipped with it, why director does not run on it 
(native)



Luiz


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