This movie demonstrates methods for controling sprite properties from messages sent by other sprites.

This movie includes a behavior that demonstrates the simple illusion of a coin spinning. The illusion works best with round or circular artwork.

File Format: Adobe Director 11.5

This movie demonstrates how to make use of a timeout object to control the duration of individual images for a "slideshow" style presentation that shows text for each image, and how a list can be used to specify image order and display duration.

 

This movie demonstrates the use of horizontal and vertical sliders, controllable through a behavior. The slider behavior sends numeric data to a global variable, which can then be used to control properties such as sound volume, sprite opacity, sprite movement, etc.

File Format: Adobe Director 11.5

This movie assembles a story, based on the randomized contents of a series of text files that contain nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. The scripts in this movie can be easily modified to generate interesting and sophisticated stories. The story generated may be optionally spoken by a synthetic computer voice that converts text to speech.