Flash video player for Director 10 & 11

I've just finished a very basic flash video player that can be used in Director 10 & 11. This player is designed to get around the video start-up delay (or flash) you encounter when using the default FLV playback component.

Resources...

• Help and Instructions : basic_video_player_help.pdf
  
• Flash File : basic_video_player.fla
  
• Example Files : basic_video_player.swf, basic_video_player_d10.dir, basic_video_player_d11.dir & test_video.flv

As always feel free to ask for help if you get stuck or have a question :-)

FishMark 08 Released

FishMark 08 is a benchmark designed to see how well your computer renders 2D animations in Director MX 2004 (10.1). It's currently still in Beta testing but don't let that scare you, it's quite stable.

To download FishMark 08 click here. FishMark 08 is compatible with Windows 2000, XP & Vista.

Scrollbar Behaviour for Director 10 & 11

I posted this on the Director Mailing List the other day but thought I should also get it online elsewhere so that everyone has access. What I've created is a scrollbar behaviour that emulates the scrollbar object found in the now dead OSControls Xtra. So all properties, methods and events from the old #OSscrollbar object are now supported by this new scrollbar behaviour. For more information see the following links...

View example movie (Shockwave 11 required)
Download example source code (Director 11 only)

Download the Scrollbar Behaviour for Director 10
Download the Scrollbar Behaviour for Director 11
Download the Scrollbar photoshop CS3 template

Current Version: 1.0b8-19Jun08

If you need help with the Scrollbar Behaviour just leave me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Director 10.1: Base64, Hexadecimal & Binary

I've just finished creating some basic functions to encode/decode Base64, covert to Hexadecimal & also convert to Binary. They are on display in the following shockwave movie.
If you would like the source code for the above functions please let me know :-)

Test Sample:

WWF5LCBpdCB3b3JrcyE=

FishMark 06 Released ;)

At the moment it seems like the only good thing to come out of Fish Hunter is the benchmark and because of this I've made FishMark 06. FishMark 06 is just a standalone version of Fish Hunter with the game play removed.

There are currently are two versions available for download, the full version and the lite version. The full version is 100% self contained and doesn't require anything else on the computer to run, but it also weighs in at 3.55MB's. The lite version on the other hand requires that you have Shockwave 10 installed, but it's only 152KB. Both versions run from the same code base, so the end results should be the same (unless you have some weird version of shockwave installed).

Update
Benchmark Results!

Fish Hunter... what the?

I thought I'd post a link to a game I created years ago called Fish Hunter. It's easy to play, all you have to do is point and shoot ;)

So if you have nothing else to do why not give it a go.

Update
I've put a chart online with the benchmark stats people have sent me from Fish Hunter. The chart can be found here.