Adobe Director 11 Tutorials
Working with 3D / Using 3D Behaviors pt. 1
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Subtitles of the Movie (Adobe Director 11 / Working with 3D / Using 3D Behaviors pt. 1)
Director 11 includes a library of behaviors that are specific to working with 3D objects, these are here in the 3D folder of the behavior section of the code library, notice that there's two categories here, there's Actions, let me close that up for a second, Actions and Triggers. The actions you can think of as the verbs, Dolly Camera, Fly Through, Reset Camera, Drag Model. The Triggers trigger the actions, in other words set up a Mouse Left to dolly a Mouse Right will zoom, a Mouse Enter, a Mouse Within, a Mouse Lead and so on so let me demonstrate some of my favorite of these 3D behaviors, their easy to use and they really add some dramatic affects to your Director projects quite easily. I've created a 3D text element here, I've extruded a 2D text into 3D using Director but I can also import content from other dedicated 3D animation programs. Let's start with the automatic model rotation and click on the behavior and drag it onto my 3D object. Here I get my parameters, rotation speed in which access to rotate about, I can do X, Y or Z. Let's choose the default X and turn up my rotation speed to 12 and now let's rewind and play my movie and you can see that its rotating and also go back and at anytime go to the Property Inspector here in the behavior tab. I can change the access of rotation to Y and rewind this, this also changes speed, let's change this to negative 3. Notice you can go in different directions, you have to stop the movie and restart it in order for the new parameters to take effect. Let's go ahead and remove that behavior so it doesn't conflict with some of the other behaviors that I want to show you. Another easy 3D behavior to implement is the model roll over cursor, let's change that to a pencil for example. So when I roll over the model my cursor changes to the image that I've selected in the parameter drop down. Another useful 3D behavior is to show access, show axis. This shows my various X, Y and Z axis. I'm going to go ahead and animate this by zooming in and moving the camera and you'll see this show axis behaviors a little bit more useful when we start animating things. To start this animation I'm going to go ahead and add a fly through behavior to my objects and notice that I have a Thrust Value, a maximum Roll Velocity and a Number of frames to come to a full stop. I'm going to decrease that number of frames, I'm going to increase Roll Velocity and I'm going to increase Thrust Value alittle bit. Click OK.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Director 11 |
| Author: | James Gonzalez |
| SKU: | 33901 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-84-4 |
| Release Date: | 2008-07-31 |
| Duration: | 9.5 hrs / 107 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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