Director Resources
News
Dean on YouTube
I have put some of my lectures on YouTube and UNSWTV. Here they are on YouTube:
Intro to Programming
Lingo Basics
Lingo Programming (including 3D basics)
Also find me on UNSWTV - MM in Design course and Av MM course
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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Dean's Links and Info
Director Tutorials: the best getting
started tutorials you'll ever find
Dean's Director FAQ
MXDJ Short Interview with
Dean Utian - The Voices of The Community
Multimedia Services
Director Next Roadmap Survey (2008)
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Old Director book for beginners (out of date) by guess who and others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
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.
Adobe Director 11.5 Getting Started - online help documentation
Adobe Director 11.5 Scripting Dictionary - online help documentation
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 MX focussed)
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.
Shockwaves - Adobe Director Blog: Allen Partridge, Adobe Director Evangelist Blog
Adobe - 3D Tutorials and Technotes
Technotes (Adobe written)
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.
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. Since 2006, it 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
Enedahl.com: Christoffer Enedahl's site with code and tutorials
Farbflash: Alex da Franca's Lingo samples, tools and resources.
Nightwares:
Warren Ockrassa's 28 page Director tutorial, FAQ, sample code.
Quantumwave Interactive - Director Stuff:
Misc Director stuff, demos
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 Notes
- ilikecake: Tutorials and notes covering animation, behaviors, Lingo, Game design, compression.
Multimedia Training Videos: Online training videos for learning the basics of Director. Also includes Flash and Photoshop videos.
Adobe Director 11 Tutorials CD: 9.5 hrs / 107 video lessons, including work files, aimed for beginners. Getting Started, The Director Workspace, and Cast Members are free from the site.
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
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.
Havok Xtra Developer Site Archive - Havok was the orginal integrated rigid body physics simulation engine for Shockwave 3D. Direcor 11 introduced a new engine PhysX. The Havok site still has valuable demos, downloads, documentation, tutorials, and FAQ.
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.
CodeRecipe(…): Tutorials covering 3D, including using Ageia Physics.
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.
Teton
Multimedia Learning Centre: Designed to teach Lingo and codin together with Math, physics, numerical methods, programming techniques,
and other fun stuff. Demos with source code provided.
Tildruin:
Lingo A* pathfinder and vList utility.
Behaviors
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, 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.
3DD Games . Com: Shockwave 3D online 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.
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.
SW Gamers.com: Shockwave action, adventure, arcade, card, puzzles sports, and other games
Mini Shockwave.com: Various categories of Shockwave games
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)
Jim Collins - Shockwave Widgets: Very cool effects and applications
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
Forums
Adobe hosts
five Director related forums.
Director Basics
- for novice users of Director. This forum covers 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
- focuses on Shockwave 3D
Director Multiuser Sever - focuses on multiuser usage in Director (very inactive)
Shockwave Player - Shockwave related
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
Mediamacros Forum: 3D, Lingo and Xtras
Shockwave 3D: Forum for 3D related issues
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
The main Director list is Direct-L . There are other lists and groups but all are relatively inactive.
Direct-L -
General Director list for all
The previous Dir3d-L and DirGames-L has moved to a Google group - the Director Game Developer List
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)
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.
Blogs
Adobe XML News Aggregator - Director
Director Specific
Shockwaves - Adobe Director: Blog of Allen Partridge, Adobe Director Evangelist.
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.
CodeRecipe(…): Blog and tutorials covering key components involved in writing 3D games with Director, including using Ageia Physics.
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.
Director Developers
Developers Dispatch: Gary Rosenzweig's news and notes for developers using Director, Flash, PHP and DHTML.
Den Ivanov Blog: Personal blog covering Flash, Flex, Apollo and Shockwave. See Den's cool shockwave demos.
Hanford Lemoore: Personal bog that covers many things including Director.
Hoeben.net: Aldo Hoeben's blog
Christophe Leske: Covers 3D programming, development and multimedia.
17Pixels: Blog covering Director, Dreamweaver, Flash, Design, and General topics.
General Blogs by Director Users and Friends of Director - non Director related
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
Non-English Blogs
Director_List: Blog and home of Director-List, the
German Mailing list, managed by Thomas Biedorf.
ExeBlog: Spanish blog.
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 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
New in Macromedia Director MX 2004 CD-ROM by Vince Parker (full access available through subscription at lynda.com)
VTC Adobe Director 11 Tutorials CD - 9.5 hrs / 107 video lessons, including work files, aimed for beginners.
VTC Director
MX2004 Tutorials CD - 8.5 hrs / 125 lessons of Director training.
VTC Director
MX 2004 Lingo Lingo Tutorials CD - 8 hrs / 112 video tutorials covering Lingo.
Software Video Adobe Director 11 Training
Software Video Adobe Director MX 2004 Training
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
Presenting Director - QTVR: Working with QTVR from Don Sinclair 2003.
Adobe
Technote - Using Lingo to control QuickTime VR movies
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
Creating a CubicVR Experience: Dean's 3D Navigation and Collision Detection
tutorial
Demos
Apple's
Cubic VR Gallery
Shockwave demos
by FieldOfView.nl
M. C. Escher: Metamorphose III Panorama -Shockwave demo (James C. Collins)
Esher Metamorph 2 (James C. Collins)
Sites for Skybox resources:
http://www.alusion-fr.com/an1ffa3.htm
Environmental Boxes
Hazel.H Textures
http://www.archive.org/details/mikepanskyboxtextures (Creative Commons Licensed)
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 Flash Developer Center - Flash Tutorials
Adobe TV - Learn Flash Professional CS4 - Video tutorials
Free Adobe Flash Tutorials - Beginner Flash tutorials
DMOZ - Flash FAQs, Help, and Tutorials
DMOZ - Flash Resources
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
ModernBeats Fruity Loops: ModernBeats offers fruity loops and samples for fruity
loops.
Music Tracks Library: Royalty free background music tracks and loops for web site, film, video, television, and podcast.
NEO Sounds: Royalty free music downloads, production music library, royalty free sound effects. Listen online, purchase and download music and sound effects instantly. Free loops and sounds.
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 FX Hub: Professional SFX for film, radio, and music. Over 250,00 imaging elements from over 40 different publishers.
Sound Loop Studio: Background music loops for flash and multimedia projects.
Sound Effects Library: Large sound effects libary. Preview copies with voice saying the sound site at the end of the sound.
Webtones Music: Royalty
Free Music library and commissioned audio provider.
Sound search engine:
Findsounds.com
Freesound Project : Allows searching of sound effects
Games
Organisations
Gamasutra: Lots of game info from news and articles about game design
GDC – Game Developers Conference (5-9 March 07)
GDC 2007 Coverage on Gamasutra
Games Developers Choice Awards
Game Developer's Association of Australia
Australian Game Developers Conference
Game Developers Conference London
International Game Developer's Association (IGDA)
Gamedev.net
Games Sites
Fizzy: Games portal from 3RD sense Australia.
Ponged: Cool Flash game site that has hundreds of free Flash games across multiple genres.
Articles
Casual Games as a Business: About casual games, tips for success, how to make money and games links. (2007)
The Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford (1982)
Simplification By Ernest Adams (1999)
The Role of Architecture in Videogames By Ernest Adams (2002)
Guidelines for Developing Successful Games
Fundamentals of Game Design, Ernest Adams and Andrew Rollings (2006) – sample chapter
Creating 3D Games using Director 8.5 tutorial
Cool Animations
Flash
Animations Fight Backs
Animusic
- Pipe Dream : Very cool 3D animation with sound
Evolution of Dance
- YouTube: Fun dance routine
Dancing mouse
New Crysis Tech Demo
Database
SQL Tutorial:
Free educational web site covering SQL concepts and clauses, featuring many
SQL programming examples
Misc -YouTube grab video links
YouTubeACatcher - download FLV from your browser
Youtube Grabber 4.1 - software to find FLV on YouTube and download it