Tutorial 8: Animating Celebs - Animation & Interactivity with behaviors
A behavior is prewritten Lingo script that can be attached to
sprites or placed in frames of the Score to create interactivity or
make objects behave in a certain way.
There are two types of behaviors:
Frame Behaviors are placed directly into a frame in the script
channel in the Score.
Sprite Behaviors are attached to visual media in the sprite
channels.
Director has a library palette containing a number of behaviors
that can be dragged and dropped onto sprites or into frames of the Score.
1. Open celebs.dir.
(Right click on the hyperlink to save the file.)
2. Extend all the sprites to start in frame 1 and end
in frame 30
3. Open the Library Palette by choosing
Window > Library Palette.
4. Click on the Library List button 
and select Animation > Automatic from the pop-up menu.
5. Click and drag the Color Cycling behavior icon 
onto the Julia Roberts sprite in channel 1. The parameters window
appears as shown below.
6. Change the Color Cycles to -1 and leave all the other parameters as the default settings.
7. On the Control Toolbar under the stage, turn the Loop
option on 
and
rewind and play the movie.
8. In the Library Palette, click on the Library
List button 
and select Animation > Interactive.
9. Click and drag the Turn Towards Mouse behavior icon 
onto the Paul Hogan sprite in channel 2. The parameters window appears
as shown below.
10. Keep all the default settings in the parameter
dialog box (as shown) and press OK.
11. Rewind and play the movie. Click and drag the Paul
Hogan sprite.
In a later tutorial, you will see how you can apply an animated effect to
an entire frame that changes from one to the next. These animated frame
effects are called Transitions. Director also allows you to apply
a transition to an individual sprite.
12. In the Library Palette, click on the Library
List button and select Animation > Sprite Transitions.
13. Click and drag the Pixelate
behavior 
onto the
Dean Utian sprite and keep all the default settings.
Rewind and play the movie.
Experiment attaching other behaviors to the sprites. You can attach more
than one behavior to a single sprite. To clear behaviors from a sprite,
select the sprite, open the Property Inspector, choose the Behavior tab,
then simply click and select the behavior you want to remove and press Delete.
Clicking the Shuffle Down 
or Shuffle Up 
buttons changes the order by which the behaviors will be activated.
You can see the completed tutorial 8 here - tut8_fin.dir