Alternaties To Adobe Director ?

[THE INTRANCER]

During my Uni days we had two development programs that we could choose, one being Director 9 which was my favourite and Flash being the other. With both these programs being defunct, what interactive visual / audio tools are there which one can use to create interactive content that one can use as part of a website ?

[Karbon L. Forms]

https://www.adobe.com/uk/products/animate.html

[THE INTRANCER]

https://www.adobe.com/uk/products/animate.html

Thanks, but I'm aware of that one, and I don't do Adobe subscriptions...so that pretty much rules it out.

I also notice that you're only doon the road from me...

[Karbon L. Forms]

I was curious, having bad memories of Director from Uni myself (A Scottish University thing maybe? Bob Gordon's for me). Hence my somewhat obvious answer.

[THE INTRANCER]

I was curious, having bad memories of Director from Uni myself (A Scottish University thing maybe? Bob Gordon's for me). Hence my somewhat obvious answer.

Director 9 was pretty temperamental in crashing, which probably more to do with things I was trying to ask from it in learning it, but I managed to figure it out to make it work for me. I made a fancy animated menu system which had torpedoed like shapes with a Terminator eye that would illuminate when clicked on. It integrated my graphic work / images video projects and stuff about the Uni I was studying at.

For now, I can only find https://www.synfig.org/ which is something more akin to Flash really.

ynfig Studio (formerly known as SINFG) is a free, Open Source 2D vector and timeline-based animation software. It was created by Robert Quattlebaum (currently no longer involved) who decided to make it Open Source in 2005 under the GNU license.

You can use this application to create feature-film-quality animation, web animations, advertisements etc. It has a long list of features such as: support many layers ( filters, gradients, distortions, transformations, fractal and many others), spatial resolution-independence, temporal resolution independence, High Dynamic-Range Imaging (HDRI), pentablet-friendly tools, artist-oriented design, path-based gradients, etc. New features are added all the time such as the bones tools or frame-by-frame animation which extends the capabilities of this program. Currently, Synfig Studio is available as a stable release for Microsoft® Windows® (XP/Vista/7), Linux RPM-based distributions (Fedora, Mandriva, RedHat etc.), Linux DEB-based distributions (Ubuntu, Debian etc.), other Linux distributions, Mac® OS X® (requires Apple's X11 environment - XQuartz) or you can choose to compile and run Synfig Studio using the source code.

[THE INTRANCER]

This looks more interesting...

https://www.xojo.com/

[whyterabbyt]

Director? Is it the f**king 90s again? Are people still doing muuulteemeeeeeedya as though it were a thing?

For building applications, installation type things etc, our students are pointed at Arduino and/or Processing, or full-on iOS/Android development. Also Unity, especially for VR. Sometimes MAX.

Anyway, ClickTeam Fusion seems to be in the Director space, although they pitch it as a game engine. Free version.

[digitallysane]

During my Uni days we had two development programs that we could choose, one being Director 9 which was my favourite and Flash being the other. With both these programs being defunct, what interactive visual / audio tools are there which one can use to create interactive content that one can use as part of a website ?

It depends a lot on what you are really trying to achieve.

There are lots of tools around for doing interactivity and animation in the browser.

Some work with the actual content of the webpage (blocks, divs, layers etc). Might want to search for UX dev tools for this approach.

Others, mainly those targeted at game development, are working on the canvas element of HTML5 to effectively render complex stuff on a webpage, similar with what Director was doing on the desktop in the 90ies.

For the latter approach there are lots of game engines that would bring you back into the Director mindset, but with a modern approach.
The first that comes to mind would be Godot Engine: https://godotengine.org/
I've been using recently this one for some educational game content I had to develop for a client: https://gdevelop.io/

[Calum]

I also used Director in the 90s to create some multimedia CDs (at another Scottish Uni!), but could never get my head round using Flash as an alternative.

If you are on a Mac, Tumult Hype may be worth looking at:
https://tumult.com/hype/

[zerocrossing]

Director? Is it the f**king 90s again? Are people still doing muuulteemeeeeeedya as though it were a thing?

For building applications, installation type things etc, our students are pointed at Arduino and/or Processing, or full-on iOS/Android development. Also Unity, especially for VR. Sometimes MAX.

Anyway, ClickTeam Fusion seems to be in the Director space, although they pitch it as a game engine. Free version.

I’m sending you my next multimedia project on a CDROM, so get ready!

[zerocrossing]

https://www.adobe.com/uk/products/animate.html

Animate is Flash. I use it all the time, because a lot of games still use Flash in conjunction with middleware called Scaleform (though it’s now owned by Autodesk and has a different name…) as their UI engines.

[whyterabbyt]

I’m sending you my next multimedia project on a CDROM, so get ready!