>From: Troy Rollins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Image File Types Handled by REV >Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 00:20:54 -0500 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Mark MacKenzie (Shaw) wrote: > > > How difficult would it be to add ".psd" files to Rev? Being able to bring > > these in with layers intact for manipulation within Rev would be pretty > > cool. A quick way to make interactive buttons and animations. > >Yeah. That's pretty much the "holy grail" isn't it (Mark)? I have this >capability in Director, but nowhere else. I suspect it's a lot harder than >it sounds, or we see PhotoShop layers used more frequently in many types of >applications. Sure, Adobe can do it - but everybody else has a hard time >with it. Personally, I wouldn't count on this for some time, if ever. Rev's >bent is far more toward "applications" than "multimedia". More a RealBasic >"killer", than a Director or iShell "killer".
I have to disagree. I'm a Metacard (Rev's engine) developer & recently completed a large-ish multimedia project which was multi-platform (mac/pc) and could have been developed with Director. I made the decision to use MC (at that point 2.4 still at alpha stage) because of 2 main reasons: 1. mc2.4 introduced Quicktime effects for the "show with visual effect" command. Cool. 2. I could easily customise my development environment & have complete control. Possible with director but the integration would not be as smooth. Now with more control over "player" objects, MC/REV are more that equal to other multimedia tools. And at their core is easy syntax code. Not bad. regards alex
