3D Community : Macromedia Director 3D Shockwave Studio [General Shockwave Links] [ Mailing Lists / Newsgroups] [Lingo] [ tutorials] [Xtras] [ books] [W3D Models] [ converters]  [ Demos / Games] Macromedia - Developers of Director Shockwave Studio CONTACT INFORMATION Macromedia, Inc. 600 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Tel: (415) 252-2000 Fax: (415) 626-0554 General Links for Macromedia Director Shockwave Studio Sites About.com Macromedia Director Resources bowy.com Code and game source files plus some 3D tutorials. Deans Shockwave Tutorials covering the basics of Director including animation, sound, scripting, 3D and advanced Lingo. den ivanov | shockwave stuff Excellent Shockwave 3D demos with source code, tutorials, and tools. Director Web Director Web is a leading resource of tips, demos, and a listserv archive for users of Macromedia's Director software. Director 7 FAQ Director8 The Director Intelligence Agency (DIRECTOR8.COM) represents the culmination of nearly a decade of working with Macromedia Director. DIRECTOR8.COM is a subscription website, stocked full of code, reference libraries, Xtras, Director Online Technical tips, LINGO tutorials, news and features for Macromedia Director Users. Shockwave Showcase, Job Board, and more! Evil Fish Macromedia Director lingo source code, shockwave tutorials, articles, and tons of cool demos. File Flex Relational database for Director Intel® 3D Software Technologies Macromedia and Intel have worked together to provide a breakthrough solution that is expected to bring 3D graphics squarely into the Web mainstream and make it easier for developers to reach a broad audience with 3D content. Read the white paper, "Macromedia Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio with Intel 3D Graphics Software Mars Rider Shockwave 3D Game Maid Marian A variety of Shockwave 3D demos with an emphasis on character bases games, 3D Avatar Chat or MMORPG applications. Macromedia Director Support Center Macromedia download center featuring: 3ds™ max Exporters, Shockwave Multiuser Server Xtra Development Kit, OBJ Converters, Shockwave Multiuser Server 3.0, Lingo Dictionary Utility, and more! MultiMedia Help This macromedia director help resource has a complete range of help resources, including source downloads, and low poly .OBJ 3D models easily converted for use in Director 8.5 Pope De Flash 3D Flash Community. setPixel() resource site by Charles Forman for Director developers. Great demos with source code. S H O C K N E T Getting Director or Shockwave to 'talk' to the outside world. If you want to work with netLingo and find out how to interface with a web based database then this is the place for you. ShockSites.com Designed by interactive designers for interactive designers that use the latest and greatest technologies. In other words specifically for Macromedia Director related sites. Shockwave.com Great showcase for Shockwave animations and games. Shockwavemovies.com Gallery, Demo Scripts, Inspiration Smoke and Mirrors Some excellent Director applications, and tutorials! Storm Sky This site has some great shockwave 3D games and experiments. thought shockwaved ideas & 3d in director : how to cook 3D in director! XXIMedia.com Director and Lingo links. Yazo French language Flash and Director site, featuring techniques, galleries, and forums.   Shockwave 3D Web Content 17 Keys A Shockwave 3D Game. Play online or download to your Mac or PC.   Lingo Lingo Paradise Zeus Productions   Shockwave and Director Mailing Lists and Newsgroups 3DDirector-L This discussion list is dedicated to the discussion of issues related to the design, development and implementation of 3D projects using Lingo, Xtras, 3D tool exporters and any other appropriate technology as it relates to Macromedia Director and Shockwave 3D. Direct-L Direct-L is a discussion forum for Director developers. Shockwave3D Mailing List From NCI Media Shockwave-L Shockwave development mailing list, with archived discussions online news://forums.macromedia.com/ News groups from Macromedia, includes macromedia.director.basics, macromedia.director.lingo, macromedia.director.multiuser Shockwave 3D Forums Shockwave 3D Forum Right here at 3DLinks.com Developer Dispatch Director & Lingo Forum Yahoo Club - Macromedia Director A place for Macromedia Director developers!   3D Models - Director Shockwave Studio Arius 3D Commercial objects, or custom made with onsite digitizing service. Turbo Squid Ever growing choice of W3D objects.   3D Tutorials - Macromedia Director 3DS Max - Shockwave Great tutorial by Jeffrey R. Abouaf about how to take a character animation from 3DS Max into Director 8.5, then out to the web to play in the Shockwave player. Getting Started A series of online videos prduced by Macromedia to get you started working with Director 8.5 PolyQuad 3D Shaded polyhedra using Director 7 quads. Director Tutorials There are four tutorials available which cover the basic aspects of Macromedia Director. Tutorial 1: The basics Tutorial 2: Animation Tutorial 3: Lingo Tutorial 4: The final frontier Ensamble3D Introducción.- Recorrido general por la interfaz del programa. La ventana Stage.- En este tutorial se muestra cómo cambiar el tamaño y color del Escenario. La ventana Cast.- Nuestra planta de actores se debe reportar a los camerinos, la ventana Cast (Reparto). La ventana Score.- La línea de tiempo donde se desenvuelven los miembros del reparto. The Burrow Director 8.5 Site with demos and tutorials such as: Creating shaders and textures Faking shadows Faking bump mapping Anti-aliasing Decals Skysphere Unfogged objects behind fog Spline interpolation of points Lens flares Behavior Demonstrations Shockwave 3D Case Studies including: Moving a model with the mouse, Particle texture, Moving a particle system 1, Vectors and rays, Using interpolate, Collisions, Camera Movements, Textures and Shaders, Lathe Tool, Creating animated textures for 3D models using Lingo Creating animated textures and applying them to 3D models is a great way to add special or realistic effects to 3D models you create or import into Macromedia Director. Creating Fog in Director 8.5 This introductory-level tutorial gets you started using the "fog" feature, using just a few simple lines of Lingo. Creating primitive 3D shapes with Lingo (Director 8.5) This sample movie demonstrates one way to create primitive shapes in Director using Lingo. Director University Subscription site with oodles of instructional content for Director, including 3D development using 8.5 Getting Oriented in 3D This article presents some of the basic concepts you'll need to understand to make use of 3D cast members in your movies. Learning 3D Basics This is the first of a four-part on using primitives. This tutorials shows how to create a spinning sphere. Shockwave3D Panaramas How to create panoramas with Shockwave 3D. Sound Forge - Project: Stunt Racer An open source 3D mountain biking game. Streaming 3D cast members Several techniques can help you deliver multimedia over the Internet. Using backdrops and overlays A backdrop is a bitmap image of a 2D cast member, such as a vector shape or text, that remains in the background of a 3D world as a texture at all times, regardless of camera position ... Using the 3D SpeedPort Xtra The 3D SpeedPort Xtra allows users to convert OBJ files containing 3D models to the W3D format.   Xtras 3DPI The 3DPI is an additional Property Inspector for 3D cast members in Director 8.5. It is a crossplatform dcr-Xtra for the Director authoring environment, which offers a quick overview about all objects within a shockwave3D world, and gives access to examine and modify nearly all its properties in realtime, including Havok physics properties. The 3DPI can also output the Lingo code for each property and 3D function. CodeWarrior This page is dedicated to describing how to create Xtras (plug-ins) for Macromedia's products, such as Director, using the CodeWarrior compiler from Metrowerks. Dave Cole's 3DE7 3D Engine for Director 7 Direct Xtras DirectTransition3D Xtra is a collection of high quality, hardware accelerated, platform independent transitions for Macromedia Director, Authorware and Shockwave. Focus3 Focus3D Xtra: Combine multiple QuickDraw3D 3DMF files into a single 3D view. Havok Havok Xtra is a fully integrated rigid body physics simulation engine for Macromedia Director. Macromedia's Director Xtras List Quick Draw 3D Add an exciting new dimension to your Director productions with the QuickDraw 3D Xtra extension. The QuickDraw 3D Xtra extension allows you to import 3D models from 3DMF files and use them as cast members within Director. This Xtra extension shipped with Director 6. Only Director 5 users need download this version. Shells 3D Author Create dazzling interactive 3D building blocks for Macromedia Shockwave with an easy-to-use, script-free drag-and-drop authoring tool that requires no 3D modeling knowledge. Upstage updateStage Xtras extend Director to help developers create professional-level applications.   Utilites dirOpener site The best free tool to unprotect macromedia director files. Editor It's a online version of a editor which allows you to import, move and rotate objects and 3D generate landscapes and more for for Shockwave 3D productions the result you can save as Lingo code and use in your own project. The editor can also be integrated in your own Shockwave 3D or projector product. Shape Shifter 3D Shape Shifter 3D is the first cross platform, low-cost integrated modeling application designed specifically for the Macromedia Director Shockwave 3D platform. ShapeShifter3D is optimized for low polygon modeling, has full support for texturing and skeleton creation, and can import objects from other 3D programs and convert them to Shockwave 3D files. Learn all the features. ShapeShifter3D is available for both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. See the complete requirements   Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio Books Director's Third Dimension: Fundamentals of 3D Programming in Director 8.5 with CDROM by Paul Catanese, Darrel Plant List Price: $49.99 AMazon Price: $34.99 Paperback: 944 pages Publisher: Sams; ISBN: 0672322285 Real-time Interactive 3D Games: Creating 3D Games in Macromedia Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio by Allen Partridge List Price: $59.99 Amazon Price: $41.99 Paperback - 600 pages Bk&Cd-Rom edition (November 1, 2001) Sams; ISBN: 0672322854 Director's Third Dimension: Fundamentals of 3D Programming in Director 8.5 by Paul Catanese Amazon Price: $34.99 Paperback - 1000 pages Bk&Cd-Rom edition (October 18, 2001) Sams; ISBN: 0672322285 Macromedia Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio for 3D: Training from the Source, 1/e Phil Gross, Mike Gross Copyright 2002, 400 pp. Paper Bound w/CD-ROM format ISBN 0201741644 Special Edition Using Macromedia Director 8.5 by Gary Rosenzweig Our Price: $44.99 Paperback - 1100 pages 1st edition (October 29, 2001) Que; ISBN: 078972667X Director 8.5 Studio: with 3D, Xtras and Flash (with CD ROM) by Christopher Robbins, Brian Douglas, Karsten Schmidt, Kenneth Orr and others Amazon Price: $41.99 Perfect - 800 pages 1st edition (August 2001) Friends of Ed; ISBN: 1903450691 Foundation Director 8.5 by Dean Utian, Sam Humphries, Charles Parcell, Jose Rodriguez, Charles Wainman, Luke Wigley Amazon Price: $27.99 Perfect - 436 pages 1st edition (June 2001) Friends of Ed; ISBN: 190345038 Macromedia Director Game Development: From Concept to Creation by Kris Jamsa, Epic Software Amazon Price: $48.99 Paperback - 352 pages Book & Cd edition (March 22, 2001) Prima Publishing; ISBN: 0761532277 The Director XTras Book: Add on Power, Productivity & Creativity by Rich Shupe, Rick Shupe Amazon Price: $49.99 Paperback - 496 pages Bk&Cd-Rom edition (October 15, 1997) The Coriolis Group; ISBN: 1566047161   Shockwave 3D Exporters and Converters Ashlar Vellum Argon 3D web exports in Shockwave 3D AMAPI 3D 6.1 Eovia has just released a new version of their AMAPI 3D product which supports both Flash and Shockwave 3D export. AMAPI 3D is a Windows and MacOS product and one of only two products so far to offer a Shockwave 3D exporter for the Macintosh platform. Alias|Wavefront Maya Alias|Wavefront has completed development of the Maya Shockwave 3D Exporter version 1.1 plug-in for Maya on Windows NT/2000. Following shipment of Maya on Macintosh OS X (now scheduled for September, 2001), the Maya Shockwave 3D Exporter will also be made available on that platform. A special webpage has been set up within the Alias/Wavefront site where the plugin, technical information about it, and examples are available. The Maya Shockwave 3D Exporter plugin consists of the Maya RT Scene Checker, which serves as a high-speed Maya scene optimizer, and the Maya RT Export Express, which allows for rapid fine-tuning of Maya content for use in Director 8.5. auto*des*sys formZ auto*des*sys is planning to offer a Shockwave 3D Exporter in formZ version 4 which is scheduled for release in Q4, 2001. Carrara Studio Eovia will release a Shockwave 3D exporter for Carrara Studio in July, 2001. Carrara Studio in the successor of Ray Dream and Infini-D, two very popular 3D tools. Carrara Studio is available for under US $400. Caligari trueSpace 5.1 Caligari has developed a Shockwave 3D exporter as a trueSpace 5 plug-in which converts trueSpace5 objects and animations for playback as .W3D files. Curious Labs Poser Expected to be released in August-September, 2001. Discreet 3ds max 3 and 4 You can obtain an exporter for MAX R3.x and R4 using the URL above. D Sculptor 1.0.2 D Sculptor is a 3D tool from D Vision Works that allows users to quickly create sophisticated models of 3D objects using just a PC and a photos. Maya® to Director® 8.5 Shockwave® Studio Alias|Wavefront has developed a production optimized 3D exporter from Maya® to Director® 8.5 Shockwave® Studio. Version 1.2 of the Maya Shockwave 3D Exporter is now available as a free download from this site. MAXON CINEMA 4D XL 7 An exporter for MAXON's CINEMA 4D XL software is now shipping as part of the free 7.1 update (Use this link to get access to the updater as the link on their site is broken.) It is one of the few professional 3D applications to support Shockwave 3D export on both Macintosh (OS 7.6.1+, OS X) and Windows (95, 98, 2000, NT, ME) platforms. NewTek Lightwave 6.5/7 NewTek has just announced the release of Lightwave 7. We don't know yet the availability of a Shockwave 3D exporter for this version. A public beta of the Shockwave 3D exporter for Lightwave 6.5b has been made available. NewTek also has opened up a discussion area for their exporter. NxView Studio The most powerful feature of the new NXView Studio product is that it allows you to easily publish your 3D data directly to Macromedia Shockwave, without having to learn Lingo! SOFTIMAGE|XSI The SOFTIMAGE|XSI Shockwave 3D exporter is available at the URL above. They have engineered the exporter so that it can be called from a script if you work within XSI. You can also download a 220Mb .AVI file containing a presentation on SOFTIMAGE interactivity on the web. This presentation includes a discussion of run-time technologies for character animation: RTK Motion - animation blending, warping, path planning, and grasping RTK Behavior - logic authoring via finite state machines and a multiplatform virtual machine which are being planned as Xtras for Director.   Demos / Games CanDo Shockwave Games Quality, free to play Shockwave 3D games. Entermation Games Home of the 3D Shaolin Temple, and MiniDoMan. 2D and 3D split-screen rendering, TCP/IP and UDP multiuser messaging. Forgefx Great Shockwave 3D games on the web. iotic Experiments shockwave 3D movies with source code UnderDog UNDERdog represents a small team of multimedia specialists with one goal in mind. To deliver FREE instant 3D game action on the web! Macromedia Inspiration See what others are creating with Macromedia Director Shockwave Studio and get inspired. You'll find examples of learning, merchandising, games and entertainment and technology demo pieces. MarsRiders - Radons Battle for Mars rages on.