Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio

Without Flash, Web surfing would be a much less dynamic experience. And any Flash developer can tell you that without Macromedia Director, Flash presentations would be years behind the brilliant productions peppering the Web today. Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio introduces a powerful new set of 3-D authoring tools, unleashing a whole new dimension for multimedia Web developers. Employing 3-D graphics technology developed at Intel, developers can import 3-D graphics with textures and animated elements (from 3D Studio MAX, for instance), and apply creative new ways to animate objects and text--from spinning icons to Superman-style logo fly-thrus--on three axes. A Particles System debuts a range of special effects: smoke, water, fire, explosions, you name it. With customizable lighting and camera effects, this package delivers the goods on the 3-D development front. Naturally, the 3-D presentations are fully scalable, ensuring that viewers with systems ranging from chug-a-lug..