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Top new features of Adobe Director 11

DirectX 9 driver 

Use the DirectX 9 driver for rendering 3D graphics. Support for DirectX 9 enables availability of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) performance on a variety of video cards and provides a platform for further 3D enhancements in future releases.



Unicode support 

Develop Adobe Shockwave content and projector movies in languages other than English. Create content in most Unicode-supported languages written from left to right.



New text engine 

Display textual information in Adobe Shockwave Player and projector movies using the font shaping and improved font rendering features of the Bitstream font engine.



Bitmap filters 

Use the following new filters in Director to apply effects to bitmap images:



  • Adjust Color
  • Blur
  • Drop Shadow
  • Bevel
  • Gradient Bevel
  • Gradient Glow
  • Glow
  • Convolution Matrix
  • Displacement Map
  • Perlin Noise

Improved publishing process 

Easily publish your movies using the Copy Linked and Dependent Files feature. You can now automatically copy linked cast files and dependent files to the same relative location to the projector as they are to the movie file.



Script window enhancements 

Browse and create scripts easily using the dictionary view and the script browser view. These two views are enabled though the Explorer panel of the Script window, and provide information about built-in Lingo and JavaScript functions, events, keywords, and commands.



Physics engine (PhysX from AGEIA Technologies, Inc.) 

Use the Physics (dynamiks) Xtra, a fully integrated rigid body physics simulation engine in Director, to do the following:



  • Create rigid bodies of primitive and complex shapes
  • Implement terrains in the physics scene using static concave objects
  • Register collision callback for colliding bodies
  • Enable and disable callback for specific rigid bodies
  • Connect objects to each other using constraints
  • Use Raycasting for rigid bodies created with physics

Support for Mac OS X v10.4 with Intel processors, and Windows Vista 

Author movies on Mac OS X v10.4, or Windows Vista.



  • Shockwave Player is supported on Mac OS X v10.4, Windows Vista, and Mac PPC.
  • Shockwave Projector is supported on Mac OS X v10.4, Windows Vista, and Mac PPC.

Multiuser Xtra 

Develop movies using the Multiuser Xtra supported on Windows and Mac OS X v10.4. This Xtra is available out of the box.



Code snippets 

Reduce the learning curve for scripting in JavaScript and Lingo by using the code samples provided for all methods in the Scripting Dictionary.



3D Save 

Save changes applied to the 3D world using the Save 3D world command.



Localization  

Localization support is available for French, German, and Japanese.



User interface enhancements 

The following changes to the user interface provide enhanced usability:



  • Center docking channel with a tabbed layout
  • Float options help float or unfloat tool windows

In addition, the following changes have been made to the user interface.

  • Message and Cast windows are now tool windows
  • Stage and score panels can now be docked together
  • The debugger window, which was a part of the script window, is now a separate window.