"How Do I ...?"

Samples & demos of basic Director tasks.

Cast members: Working with & creating

• Overview: What is the cast? what are cast members? what kinds of cast members are there?
• Transforming bitmaps: Changing a paint cast member's size or bit depth
• Paint window tricks (double-click marquee, eraser, reg-point; exchanging colors)
• Onionskinning
• Text in Director
• Importing cast members
• Optimizing your animations to make your file smaller
• Embedding fonts

Working with sprites, the score & the stage

• Look Ma, no score: Adjusting a sprite's path on the stage.
• Cast-to-time animations
• Exchange cast members
• Film loops: When to use 'em, how to make 'em
• Insert/delete score frames
• Sprites are layers
• Using sound in the score
• Getting rid of that !#@$!@ sprite-info overlay

Lingo

• Lingo: Quickie overview
• Frame scripts
• Behaviors (and the Behavior Inspector)

Miscellaneous Tips

• Reducing file size

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