Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!mordor!lll-lcc!well!ewhac From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Question about Director - Richard Foy/Leo/?? Message-ID: <6182@well.UUCP> Date: 6 Jun 88 08:36:41 GMT References: <2030072@hpcilzb.HP.COM> Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) Organization: The CIA: Third-World Governments Destabilized While-U-Wait. Lines: 35 In article <2030072@hpcilzb.HP.COM> daves@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Dave Scroggins) writes: >I would like someone who has used "The Director" to tell >me how they like it. > >Also can you give me any info about Sculpt/Animate - 3D? > >I have been thinking about getting a copy of this and >Scupt/Animate - 3D. (Yes Folks I DO mean BUY them!!) > Sadly, I have not used The Director at all, though I have looked through the manual. I do know that The Director does not deal with Sculpt- Animate's "movie" files. This is because Byte by Byte has chosen not to document their animation compression format (which is too bad, really). > How hard (read tedious) are they to use? > The Director is a programming language, similar in syntax to BASIC. Depending on how much time you want to spend, a Director script can be as simple or as complex as you want. > Do you recommend these products? > Though I've never used it, it's cheap enough that it'd be hard for you to go wrong. Give it a look. >I can't seem to get any intelligent assitance from the computer >store sales slime I've seen around this area. They all seem >really annoyed if I take them away from their computer games. Sounds like a store local to me. Do they play MidiMaze a lot? _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape ihnp4!pacbell -\ \_ -_ Recumbent Bikes: dual ---> !{well,unicom}!ewhac O----^o The Only Way To Fly. hplabs / (pronounced "AE-wack") "Hmm, you're right. Air is made up of suspended meat loaf." -- Josh Siegel