Andrew M. Phelps

Director has three things going for it that are unique in both the Macromedia and Adobe product lines: Imaging Lingo (or JavaScript), Shockwave 3D, and DVD support It's the middle of summer, and it's particularly hot this year. I suppose the same could be said of multimedia cont... (more)

Recently in a Shockwave3D project, I had some problems with the modelsUnderRay command. More precisely, modelsUnderRay seemed to have some problems of its own. Occasionally it just didn't give the correct result, it would miss a model somehow. In the particular application I was ... (more)

Recently, I have been working in Shockwave3D in Lingo and JavaScript syntax. Regardless of what I am writing, I keep running into issues that can be summed up by the following phrase: I don't know exactly what I'm doing. More precisely, I don't know exactly what I am doing when I... (more)

Hello! I wanted to wait and formally greet you from the Macromedia MAX Conference in New Orleans. Some of you might know me from my writing at Director-Online, or from the Macromedia DevNet Center. Others are probably reading this and saying to themselves "Hey... wait a minute...... (more)

Shockwave3D (S3D), despite a number of advantages such as delivery on the Web and small plug-in size, suffers from a few disadvantages in terms of its architecture. One of the "classic problems" with regard to the way S3D is built is the inability of the developer to manipulate e... (more)

The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), and the Information Technology Department where I teach, has long been a user of Macromedia products, from Dreamweaver to Director and most things in between. Recently, there has been some debate as to the future of Director's role, co... (more)