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News

Director Games Survey
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Dean on Director - Podcast (Episode 19)
My first interview on the Director Online Podcast is available for all to hear.
Battle of the Bull Shockwave 2004 Election Game
See this new shockwave game themed around the 2004 US elections. Created by myself together with MediaMacros. OK, this is old news, but still good stuff :)
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Articles	Other Multimedia Resources
General Director Programming / syntax 3D VR General multimedia	3D Resources Photoshop Flash Video Sound Games Cool Animation Database

Dean's Links and Info

Director Tutorials: the best getting started tutorials you'll ever find
Dean's Director FAQ
Dean on Director - Podcast (Episode 19): My first interview on the Director Online Podcast is available for all to hear.
MXDJ Short Interview with Dean Utian - The Voices of The Community
Multimedia Services
Director Games Survey (2006)
Director vs Flash Survey (2005)
Old Director book for beginners (out of date) by guess who and others

Lingo and Programming Technotes

Lingo and Programming Terminology - Definitions and Examples
Learning to Program with Lingo - Conditions, conditional statements & loops
Variable Types - Local, Globals and Properties
The Power of Lists - List Lingo
Getting a handle on Lingo - writing generic scripts and custom handlers
Using me and other parameters in Lingo - including writing behaviors
Understanding Behaviors - Creating a Parameter Dialog Box
Inter-behavior Communication - sendSprite, sendAllSprires & call Lingo
Using Primary Event Handlers - Writing Lingo for a Screensaver
Lingo Alternatives to the Tempo Channel
Using Movies In A Window (MIAWs)
Working with File IO - Exporting text from Director

Shockwave 3D

The makeup of 3D cast members: Including relationships between 3D objects.
Shockwave 3D Director Tutorials: Getting started with shockwave 3D, cameras, lighting, collision.

Adobe - Director Links

Director Software Page: Features, System Requirements, FAQ, Reviews and News, and more.
Director Technotes: Notes on common problems and questions faced by Director users.
Director Support Centre: Contains links to the top technotes, what's new and other resources.
Director Developer Centre: Articles and tutorials on different elements of Director written by industry professionals.
Director Backstage Tours: Breeze presentation of various aspects of using Director, including Tips from the Pros, Integrating Flash and Director, Xtras, Video, Dynamic content, and Accessibility.
Director Gallery: Showcase and profile of projects made with Director.
Adobe Max Conference: Adobe annual event that gives recognition of excellence in applications made with their software. 2004 and 2005 had Director finalists in the Max Awards.
Macromedia: The Story: History of Macromedia and the products (pre-Adobe)
Shockwaves - Adobe Director Blog: Allen Partridge, Adobe Director Evangelist Blog

Adobe - 3D Tutorials and Technotes

Technotes (Adobe written)
Quicktime movie demonstration of 3D Basics
Basics of Director 3D
Intermediate Director 3D
Creating primitive 3D shapes with Lingo
Exporting W3D files from 3D Studio Max
Using the exporter for 3D Studio Max
Optimizing file size, performance and streaming of 3D content
Shockwave 3D acceleration and performance testing
Creating animated textures for 3D models using Lingo
How can I clone a model from a W3D member?

Director Developer Center (Articles from Industry professionals)
Tweening FX with the Chrome Library Set of 3D Behaviors
3D User Interfaces and 3D App Building Using the Chrome Library Set of Behaviors
Creating a Shockwave 3D Game Level in 30 Minutes
Shockwave 3D - Chapter 3: Architecture Fly-Through: Sample chapter from the book Shockwave 3D is a hands-on example on using real-time 3D in Director.
Character Animation in Shockwave 3D: Step-by-step tutorial in creating 3D moving characters.

Web Developer's & Designer's Journal (formerly MX Developer's Journal)
Creating a Shockwave 3D Game Level in 30 Minutes

General Director Resources

The Director Community Bugbase: Place to log bugs and check what has been reported.
Director Web: The oldest Director resource site around, contains demos, tips and more. Has recently ceased being updated so has become an archive. While, much of the content is becoming dated, it still provides valuable information.
MediaMacros: Lots of Director information and resources - well worth a visit.
Director Online User Group (DOUG): Lots of articles on almost every Director topic. Great technical tips, news & features, interviews & insights, user showcase. Also includes Lingo Database, Wiki, Forums and Job board.
Adobe Director Online: New site focussing on Director 11. Has samples, tutorials and tips.
DaLingoKid: Jervo's Director samples.
Dave Mennenoh's Director Pages: Articles, demos, tips
Director Freaks: General Director resources site with forums and news.
Enedahl.com: Christoffer Enedahl's site with code and tutorials
Farbflash: Alex da Franca's Lingo samples, tools and resources.
Killing Moon Software: Various tutorials, references and source code for Lingo programmers.
Nightwares: Warren Ockrassa's 28 page Director tutorial, FAQ, sample code.
Shocksites: Developed to help people find sites that relate to Director.
Zeus Productions: Has not been updated for a number of years but still contains a good set of technotes and other useful info.

Learning / Tutorials

Dean's Director Tutorials: Beginner to Advanced, animation to 3D
Director Training Videos: Free online training videos for learning the basics of Director.
Director Notes - ilikecake: Tutorials and notes covering animation, behaviors, Lingo, Game design, compression.
ToxicToy: Charles Parcell's video demonstrations on various aspects of Director.
Inludo Director 3D Tutorials: 3D examples with source files
Cylindrical and Cubic VRs with Shockwave 3D: Tutorial and source files from Joachim Baur.
Shockwave3D Developer's Guide: 53 pages of introductory tutorials and discussion about developing games for Shockwave3D broken down into: Creating 3D Educational Games, Introduction to Low-Polygon 3D Modeling for Games, Introduction to Low-Polygon Game Asset Texturing, Introduction to 3D Game Scripting
Creating 3D Games using Director 8.5 tutorial: Covers various aspects of 3D including Avatars, lights, animation, shooting, and more.
Presenting Director: Tips and tutorials covering Lingo, behaviors, projectors, QT/QTVR from Don Sinclair 2003.
Director/Shockwave 3D Tutorials: Tutorials and tips on how to best utilise the 3D capabilities of Director from Richard England (2003).
VR Panoramic Simulations / QTVR: Introduction to the creation of QTVRs and using them with Director from Richard England (2003).
Using QTVR with Director tutorial: Director 7 tutorial.

and
Adobe - Director Technotes: Notes on common problems and questions faced by Director users.
Adobe - Director Support Centre: Contains links to the top technotes, what's new and other resources.

3D Sites

Director 3D: Contains articles, announcements and other 3D info, focused on games (site is managed by Allen Partridge who has a 3D game book on Director 8.5 out).
Havok Developers Site Archive: 3D demos with downloadable sources files and Havok technotes.
Intel - Using Shockwave 3D's Havok Physics Engine: Detailed information on Havok.
Thought - Shockwaved ideas - 3d in Director: 3D demos and article on How to cook 3D in Director, which includes source code.
inTOXiCated: Contains 2 cool shockwave 3D demos as well as other shocked stuff
Nonoche's Shocked Vault: Includes games and some source files
Dave Cole: 3D engine using quads.
CanDo Interactive: Includes 3D Art Gallery Creator, 3D Modeling and Game Design toolkit, and Shockwave 3D demos.

Lingo Oriented Sites

Animation Math in Lingo: Provides tutorials and demos in animation math and good programming techniques.
AxiomX - Lingo Algorithms: Includes Posterize to reduces the number of color levels in an image.
Invadirs: Tutorial teaching Object Oriented Lingo the development of a simple 'Space Invaders' type game.
Lingo Workshop: A good collection of Lingo based demos (many with source code), articles, tutorials, and Director utilities.
LOOPE Lingo Object Oriented Programming Environment: This is an online E-Book, intended for Lingo programmers who wish to learn how to write object oriented code in Lingo. Written by Irv Kalb, it has comprehensive descriptions of this area of programming.
Onwine: Provides help on programming matters with free source code, tech demos.
openLingo Yahoo Group: A community set up by Robert Tweed and others to create a standardised reusable library of Lingo tools.
Openspark - Nonlinear: Notes for Developers: Material created by James Newton. Contains articles, sample movies with well commented code.
Robotduck: Directory listing of content, articles and Director demos.
Robotduck Lingo Tutorials: Collection of pages demonstrating techniques and tips for programming with Director.
Shocknet: A great resource for Director/Shockwave developers who want to learn how to interface with server side technologies.
Teton Multimedia Learning Centre: Created to teach something along with your Lingo and coding. Math, physics, numerical methods, programming techniques, and other fun stuff. Demos with source code provided.
Tildruin: Lingo A* pathfinder and vList utility.

Behaviors
Chrome Lib: Extensive 3D Library of easy to use behaviors with camera management, tweening, model handling, rendering parameters and UI components.
Windows For Shockwave: A set of Library Palette behaviors for Director 8.5+ that enables drag and drop creation of onstage windows, modal dialog boxes, and cascading menus. Allows multiple sprites to be treated as a unit, and supports creation and destruction of dynamic sprites, dynamic windows, dynamic menus, and dynamic families thereof.
Macromedia Director Behavior Demonstrations by James Newton: Behaviors for various media written by the man who created many of the original ones shipped with Director. This is James' original test site which is no longer maintained. Newer area is the Nonlinear site.

Demo Sites

MultimediaHelp: Lots of multimedia downloads including audio, background and button graphics, 3D models and Director movies.
Noisecrime: Various Director experiments and demos (no source), includes a tutorial on Additive Blending.
Chunick: Director examples and code.
Den Ivanov Labs: Eye Candy Shockwave 3D files with Director source.
Getpixel: A few Director demos with source and shockwave games

Demos without code
17 Keys: A Shockwave 3D game documented in Real-Time Interactive 3D Games by Allen Partridge.
Entermation Games: Game company with Shockwave 3D games/demos.
Forgefx: Multimedia company with some cool shockwave 3D demos
Mach8: Lucas Meijer's portfolio of Shockwave games.
Shockwave 3D demos by Boris Langhammer: Include architectural virtual walkthroughs and bones character animation.
Shockwave 3D Examples - Patrick Murris: Site is in French but demos are good to see.
Ullala: Check out the experiments section for some cool shockwave stuff.
Xonko: Multimedia company with Shockwave 3D demos.

Shockwave Games Sites

Shockwave3D.com: Shockwave 3D games, forum as well as a 'Who's Using Shockwave3D' list
Shockwave.com: Animations and games (though not primarily Shockwave).
Shockwave-Games.net: Sport and car driving games, action, arcade, puzzle and skill, and shooting games.
Robotduck: One of the biggest Shockwave games sites.
Ezone Games: Lots of fun shockwave games.
Clevermedia's GameScene: Shockwave arcade and other games.
Outside the Box Software: Games Development company with games to play, download and buy.
Skunk Studios: Games Development company that have online and downloadable games
gigaplay: Simple, fun shockwave games.
Monsterland Web Games: Snowball war and zombie fighting game.
Necromanthus: A cool selection of shockwave 3D games.
SW Gamers: Shockwave action, adventure, arcade, card, puzzles sports, and other games.
Miniclip: Large range of games -3D to arcade.
Rabidlab: Developer of online and downloadable games, including Dodge That Anvil.
Silent Bay Studios: Game company with many Shockwave 3D games.
UNDERdog.be: Shockwave 3D games, demos and research.

Specific cool games
Monster Bash: Shockwave 3D game monster hitting a skull as far possible.
Cowboys and Engines: Shockwave 3D game.
Maid Marian: Shockwave 3D experiments including a 3D chat room (MMORPG - Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game).
Chamber of Chat: MMORPG and game portal.
Phosphor: Multiplayer First Person Shooter 3D game.
GorillaZ: Shockwave 3D Driving game.
Underdog: Shockwave 3D.
Lego Galidor Quest:
Crank: 3D car game. I like the transitions at the start.
Food Force: Very educational game for younger kids (need to download to play).
Terraformers: Great example of an extensive AUDITORY interface, which makes this 3D game accessible for the blind (need to download to play).
POG: A great looking game (big download but worth it!) with a nice, flashy interface.

Non-shockwave but cool in some way
Get the Glass - Very good prerendered 3D graphics and a great, fun story. (Flash)
Soul Pool - A seriously stylized interface (comic book style) for our Pool game from hell. Play against a demon, casting spells and avoiding spells to win. (Flash)
Mr Reach in the Mouth of Mystery - The graphics in this game for Reach toothbrushes are beautiful and is one of the prettiest Flash games I've seen. (Flash)
Mini Putt is a and the interface is pure arcade simplicity. The whole feel of the game is cheesy and campy and it works great! (Virtools so different plugin)
Fire and Ice Dragons: The interface is very Dungeons and Dragons. Works quite nicely. (Flash)

Cool sites that have Director content

See Dean's Shockwave Hall of Fame page.

Shockwave 3D Inspirational links
Macromedia's Inspirational Games and Entertainment Links
Macromedia's Inspirational Learning Links
Macromedia's Inspirational Merchandising Links
Macromedia's Inspirational Technology Links

Cool Shockwave content (3D and 2D)
3DRT - Realtime 3D Demos: Extremely cool flyarounds in a dark forest and futuristic city. Also has cool 3D effects
3DRT -3D Characters and models: Very cool
ertdfgcvb: Mesmerising 3D eye candy
fieldOfView SPi-V Gallery: Shockwave 3D Cubic VRs
flying puppet: Very creative shockwave interactive animated stories
FUNPODS.com: Fun, groovy and wacky shockwave 3D webToys.
10 ways: Two very cool interactive image experiences
lecielestbleu.com: Fun shockwave, must see flying giraffe
submarine: 3D exploration with a submarine
The Time Machine 3D Model: Explore the Time Machine in 3D
Ullala Experiments: Fun 3D demos. Check out Twister
Housing Virtual Tour: 3D virtual tour of a interior housing. Allows change of floor tiles, wall painting, open doors.
Science Alberta Foundation - Wonderville 3D: Shockwave 3D world. Read more about the development of this project here.
PDF Shockwave Book viewer

Blogs

Adobe XML News Aggregator - Director

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Shockwaves - Adobe Director: Allen Partridge, Adobe Director Evangelist, Blog.
Developers Dispatch: Gary Rosenzweig's news and notes for developers using Director, Flash, PHP and DHTML.
Director @ Night: Raman Pfaff's 'after hours' blog focusing on random tips and tricks for Director and Lingo, and the occasional thought about multimedia and Macs.
DirectorGeek: Zac Belado's Director discourse on coding, Flash, websites and the general insanity of producing code.
Den Ivanov Blog: Personal blog covering Flash, Flex, Apollo and Shockwave. See Den's cool shockwave demos.
FFX Labs: Shockwave interactive tests, tricks and workarounds by Adam Kane.
K-Director.com: Khai Ho's latest news of Director, tutorials and tips and tricks about Lingo.
Hanford Lemoore: Personal bog that covers many things including Director.
Hoeben.net: Aldo Hoeben's Director blog
Christophe Leske: Covers 3D programming, development and multimedia.
Marty Plumo: Personal blog covering Director, development, games and software.
TomBlogg: Thomas Biedorf personal blog covering a range of topics, including Director..
17Pixels: Blog covering Director, Dreamweaver, Flash, Design, and General topics.

Archive Blog - Tom Higgins, Product Manager for Director and Shockwave (in 2006): Blog archives to Sept 2006. Still has useful links and info.

Non-English Blogs
Director_List: Blog and home of Director-List, the German Mailing list, managed by Thomas Biedorf.
ExeBlog: Spanish blog.

General Blogs by Director Users and Friends of Director
Adam Kane: Adam - "I'm the Hawaii-based technical director of ForgeFX and a card-carrying geek. My interests (obsessions) include: 3D graphics programming, interactive simulations, virtual world building, AI, and frisbee."
blog.whybird.net: Mark Whybird - "This blog: Random things I find, and amazing sights I see.
My interests span medical fascinations, computer coding (with some bias for Macs), education, and the strange and weird things people do. There could be any of that and more in here."
darrelplant.com: Darrel Plant's politics and multimedia blog.
Don Relyea's blog: Art Related Blog - "I like to write about interesting art projects." Visit Don's art projects page, many of which were created in Director.
dreamfishery.com: Jennifer Franklin Elrod's personal blog covers the occasional Director post , the main focus being her novel - The Myth of Merula.
Information Gift: lewis francis blog that "deals with newmedia development issues I find interesting or newsworthy, with an emphasis on multimedia/webby platforms, usability, stats, browser compatibility gotchas, tools and the like".
Jervo: Personal blog of Jervo - Jervis Thompson, brother of John 'JT' Thompson.
Marc's Voice: Marc Canter blog - man behind Macromind / Macromedia and Director.
lynnfredricks.com: Lynn Fredricks' personal blog that covers Director related business stuff.
razormouse.com: Rasmus Keldorff - "I am a game designer, even if I temporarily hide under other job titles. This blog is for me speculating aloud and commenting on the work of my peers."
t3logy.com: La'Dene Bean's non Director blog, covering general thoughts and political views

Podcasts

Director Podcast at MagicGate Software: Podcasts on Director, covering discussions on programming techniques, information about Xtras, interviews with industry professionals.
Kiosk Podcast at MagicGate Software: Podcast devoted to kiosk development, covering how to produce a kiosk project, information on hardware, software, techniques, programming, events and related info.

Forums

Adobe hosts four newsgroups for Director. These can be accessed via a web browser or a newsreader. Support information on how to set this up is available here.

Web browser links
Adobe Director Support Forums - Basics, Lingo, 3D, Multiuser Server

Newsreader links
Director.basics - for novice users of Director. This group is limited to discussions of installation, troubleshooting, and general usage.
Director.lingo - for intermediate and advanced users of Director to discuss issues and questions regarding Lingo scripting functionality and usage.
Director.3d - new group to focuses on Shockwave 3D

Google Groups allows searches of any form.

Other Forums
Directorforum.com: Community forum. connected to news feeds, showcase.
Director Online Forums: General Director, Lingo Programming, Shockwave 3D
Director Dispatch: Director and Lingo Forum
Mediamacros Forum: 3D, Lingo and Xtras
Shockwave 3D: Forum for 3D related issues
Shockwave 3D Games: Forum on Shockwave 3D and game development
Shocksites Director Forum : Forum on Discussing Director projects, Director Basics, Lingo and Shockwave.

Non-English Forums
Centre de Formation Director: Director forums in French.
Directorforum.de.: German forum on Director, but includes an English area.
LingoPark: German Director forum and official web site of the MMUG-D (Macromedia user Group - Germany).
Prodirector: Main forum of Russian Director community.

Mailing Lists and Groups

Direct-L - General Director list for all
Dir3d-L and DirGames-L were recently moved to a Google groups
http://groups.google.com/group/dirgamedevlist
Dir3d-L - 3D focused list - more advanced than Direct-L (old dir3d-L archives)
DirGames-L - covers the subject of games development (old DirGames-L archives)

Shockwave-L - focuses on Director authoring for the Internet.
Shockwave 3D - discussion of issues related to the development of 3D with the Shockwave 3D technology.
Xtras Developer List: Discussion forum for Xtra authors, beta-testers, users and fans to share their knowledge and experience.

Yahoo Groups (Ordered according to member size - biggest to smallest)
Macromedia / Adobe Director Group: Yahoo's largest group dedicated to Director developers.
OpenLingo: Open-source community project, the goal of which is to develop the largest single repository of completely free, commercial quality, reusable software components for Director.
studentDirector8: listing primarily for multi-media students using Director 8 and Shockwave, and all interested learners of Director 8 and animation project documentation.
lingoparadise: Discuss any Lingo question that would be interesting to advanced Macromedia Director developers and share your Lingo scripts.
DirectorUsers: Where anyone can ask any Director-related questions, and, share resources that will benefit the list.
Director_Art : This is a list where people post URLs to new Director work they've done, post URLs to exciting shockwave work they've discovered on the Web.
director8shockwave: This list is for both web and graphic designers to share ideas, inspiration, professional knowledge, and methods for improving our work. This is ideal for artists, web developers, web designers, IT professionals, web site owners.
directorUIWidgets: A list/group of folks interested in creating free UI widgets in Director.

Non-English Lists
Director-List: German Mailing list, managed by Thomas Biedorf.
Director Hors Piste: Mailing list aimed is to promote cooperation between French-speaking users.

Director Books

I have co-written a book on Director so have to list it first. It was structured to be a book for absolute beginners so is not suited to everyone. It is a good idea to look around at various books on the market and see which suits your needs the best.
Foundation Director 8.5 a book by me and a few and others - though out of date version
Adobe List of Director publications
Mediamacros' Director Book Lists - has some book reviews as well

Director MX 2004 (Current version) Books
Macromedia Director MX 2004 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide by Mark Schaeffer and Andre Persidsky
Macromedia Director MX 2004: Training from the Source by Dave Mennenoh
Macromedia Director MX 2004 Bible by Brian Underdahl, John R. Nyquist, and Robert Martin
Director MX 2004 Games, First Edition : Game Development with Director by Nik Lever
Macromedia Director MX 2004 Design Professional by Steve Johnson
Exploring Director MX 2004 by James L. Mohler and John Finnegan
Essentials for Design Macromedia(R) Director(R) MX 2004 Comprehensive by Tara Gray
Creating Casual Games for Profit & Fun (2007) by Allen Partridge - Covers the casual games profession and looks at Director and Flash in this context. I already have a copy and it looks good.

Director 3D Books
3D for the Web, First Edition: Interactive 3D animation using 3DS Max, Flash and Director (2004) by Carol MacGillivray, Anthony Head
Building Interactive Worlds in 3D, First Edition : Virtual Sets and Pre-visualization for Games, Film & the Web (2005) by Jean-Marc Gauthier
Shockwave 3D (2002) by Jason Wolf
Real-Time Interactive 3D Games: Creating 3D Games in Macromedia Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio (2001) by Allen Partridge - This is a bit old but has valuable information on 3D game design as well as 3D in Director. It does assume you know the basics of Director and 3D.
Director's Third Dimension: Fundamentals of 3D Programming in Director 8.5 by Paul Catanese (2001) - I haven't read it but it has great reviews and have heard from people who have used it that it provided a very strong introduction to 3D. Again, is slightly old but probably still valuable.

Other good books that I like
Advanced Lingo for Games (2000) by Gary Rosenzweig - very good, with lots of useful examples and it comes with a CD. Also oldish but Lingo is still good and has lots of code and demos. The book covers 2D games, including puzzle games, arcade games, card games. Adventure games, strategy games, multiplayer games. If any of the above sounds interesting to you, I'm sure you'd find the book a valuable resource.

Advice
There is no one book that is perfect for everyone. People learn in different ways and so it's important to select a book that suits your learning style and needs. If you'd like to get further advice, feel free to email me (Dean). And, if you're interested in a particular type of book, email me as well.

CD / DVD training

Director In A Flash: A DVD-ROM video training resource aimed specifically at students who are complete beginners to Director MX/2004. Contains over 3 hours of video training covering every stage of building a complete interface in Director through to burning the project onto CD.
Macromedia Director MX 2004 VTC Training CD by Brian Maxx
Macromedia Director MX 2004 Lingo VTC Training CD by James Gonzalez (link includes QT demos)
New in Macromedia Director MX 2004 CD-ROM by Vince Parker (also available through subscription at lynda.com)
Director MX 2004 Training DVD by Software Video

General Director

Lingoworkshop - An Unofficial Brief History of Director (May 2006)
The Best Kept Secret in Town - Application development with Macromedia Director: By: Jason MacDonald; Paul-Catalin Oros, July 2004, Web Developer's & Designer's Journal (formerly MX Developer's Journal)
Director and SCORM 1.3 SCORM - Sharable Content Object Reference Model: By: Kraig Mentor, July 2004, Web Developer's & Designer's Journal (formerly MX Developer's Journal)

Programming / Syntax

Introduction to Programming: General background to programming (PDF article)
Object oriented thinking (August 1996)
Using the dot syntax (From Director 7 days - but still useful look into dot syntax)
Director 8 improvements, Imaging Lingo and the dot syntax (March 2000)

3D

How Shockwave 3D Technology Works
The Universal 3D Format (U3D): Information on U3D
Is it finally time for 3D online?: c|new NEWS.com (May 2005): Article about 3D web technologies, written by a co-creator of VRML.
How to cook in 3D in Director: Very good article about 3D techniques in Director
Interactive 3D with Shockwave: Article by Greg Meyers on Web Techniques (Feb 2002)
Advanced Director Bones in Director 8.5: Describes undocumented Lingo (2001)
Director 8.5 review: Check out book link at bottom right corner of page :)

VR

QTVR Online Tutor: QTVR Overview - introduction to the terms, concepts, and capabilities of QuickTime VR.
Using QTVR with Director tutorial: Director 7 tutorial.
Presenting Director - QTVR: Working with QTVR from Don Sinclair 2003..
VR Panoramic Simulations / QTVR: Introduction to the creation of QTVRs and using them with Director from Richard England (2003).
DOUG - Shockwave VR with a grip: Adding QuickTime VR capabilities to Director without QuickTime.
Cylindrical and Cubic VRs with Shockwave 3D: Tutorial and source files from Joachim Baur
Adobe Technote - Using Lingo to control QuickTime VR movies
Creating a CubicVR Experience: Dean's 3D Navigation and Collision Detection tutorial
http://www.xonko.com/Shockwave3DLab/learn/tute_cubic_vr_1.php#

Demos
Apple's Cubic VR Gallery
Shockwave demos by FieldOfView.nl
Escher - House of Stairs Shockwave demo

Sites for Skybox resources:
http://www.alusion-fr.com/an1ffa3.htm
http://www.pocorev.com/stl/
http://fps.brainerd.net/terragen.htm

General Multimedia

DMOZ Directory - Multimedia: Multimedia category containing links to everything multimedia related
Planet of Tunes Multimedia authoring resources: Articles on various aspects of multimedia, including Multimedia concepts, Project management, Copyright, Director stuff.

3D Resources

3D Total - Great 3D resource with free models, textures, tutorials. Also has 3D galleries, book reviews, interviews, 3D links. Products sold by site includes texture CDs, shorts DVDs, training DVD, and books.
3D Links.com: Discussion forum, 3D information, tutorials, gallery and more.
3D Buzz: A vast community site offering free training videos for Maya, 3D Max, Softimage, Lightwave, Houdini and game level design. Also has very active and helpful forums, news items and artists galleries.
3D Cafe: 3D models, tutorials, textures and tools.
3D Max Learning Resource Forums
Autodesk Discussion Forums - 3D Max : Needs User login
3D Max Freeware Plugins
Turbo Squid: Library of 3D models, meshes, texture maps, shaders, materials, and vector graphics designed for purchase to use in 3dsmax, Poser, Lightwave, Shockwave 3D, Softimage and Maya.
CYGAD’s 3DXtra: Free 3D models and texture downloads, resources.
Geo-metricks Real-Time 3D Models: Includes Shockwave Ready 3D Model Collections
Learning-Maya.com: Extensive collection of tutorials.
Maya Resources: Links to Maya tutorials and info sites.
Maya Tutorials, Tips and Tricks
Alusion Skybox resource: Includes free skybox maps
General 3D tutorials
3D Gurukul: Free 3D models in Max, Maya, Poser, C4D, gallery and tutorials.

Max Tutorials
Realistic Texturing

Flash

Adobe Technote - Web sites devoted to Flash and Flash Developers: Includes a list of useful Flash sites.
DMOZ - Flash FAQs, Help, and Tutorials
DMOZ - Flash Resources
DMOZ - Flash Chats and Forums

Video

Codec Central - List of Codecs: Info on various codecs for audio and video.

Sound Resources

Adobe Technote - Sound Resources: List of sites that offer sound resources and sounds, including downloadable royalty-free sounds and sound clips for sale.
Audioskull.com: Free audio samples for multimedia productions. Large collection of free kick drum samples.
Chris Worth Productions: Royalty free music covering wide selection of styles, from Techno to Jazz to Romantic, as well as real orchestral classical music, performed by the Moscow International Symphony Orchestra.
Echo Vibes: Royalty free sound resources
Galerie Chapuza: Royalty free music for film and multimedia.
Loopsound: Royalty free music loops and looping sound effects for multimedia projects or web page.
Massivetracks: Royalty free music web site
Music Tracks Library: Royalty free background music tracks and loops for web site, film, video, television, and podcast.
Neo Sounds: Royalty free music tracks, music loops, production music, sound effects.
Premiumbeat: Royalty Free Music Library for new media projects. Allows preview and download instantly online. High quality professional music tracks and loops created exclusively for the site by a team of musicians and composers.
Pro Music Loops: Royalty free loops
selling|sound: Offers royalty free music, songs, jingles and sound loops for multimedia and internet productions, hotlines or commercials.
Sound Dogs: Effects library and royalty free. Large sound site which charges for sound effects but has lower quality free version.
Sound Loop Studio: Background music loops for flash and multimedia projects.
Sound Effects Library: Large sound effects libary. Preview copies with voice saying teh sound site at teh end of teh sound.
Webtones Music: Royalty Free Music library and commissioned audio provider.

Sound search engine:
Findsounds.com
Freesound Project : Allows searching of sound effects

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