Have you played around with Adobe's Director Version 11? Do you have items that you would like see added in version 12? Would you like your comments to be heard? This is the place to post your ideas, concerns and needs for the next version.
Director 12 Feature Request / Wishlist |
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Multiple levels of "Undo" |
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Vastly improved 3D behaviors |
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Export to SWF |
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Import Photoshop layers |
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Improved soundtrack with waveform |
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Native PDF support |
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Video with overlay performance |
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HLSL (High Level Shader Language) support |
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Native printing support (good printing features!) |
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Re-introduce Havok |
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Create a mobile platform developers kit built into Director, including support for the Iphone to output Shockwave applications to mobile devices |
| 12 |
Fix all install issues |
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Purchase some of the crucial Xtras that everybody uses including: OS Control, Buddy API Xtra, INM's Impressario.... and of course, supply them for free. |
| 14 |
Integration of all of the CS3 products |
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Integrate all features of DirectX 9 including 3d shaders |
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Fix all Mac related bug issues and have full backwards compatibility for older PPC machines |
| 17 |
Integrated Paint feature has finally been brought up to today's standards |
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Modern day OS components using the Flex components backbone |
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ActionScript 3 supported SWF files |
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ActionScript 3 integration into Director (like javascript) |
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Digitally sign your projects with complete integration into Air so now we have an install solution |
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Full DirectX 10 support |
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Native FLV support for inline Flash Video |
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Be able to wrap your Flex projects in Director and wrap Director in Flex |
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Import Photoshop layers natively in Director |
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Have Adobe make a commitment to make Director to be the premier development tool for Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 applications |
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Fix all memory drains and issues that cause Director to run slow at times |
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Split Director into several different versions: an Application Development Package, 3D Development Package and a Production Suite version for all of the above |
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New suite of native transitions |
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Native database support for remote and local MySQl databases, SQL, Oracle and Access DB support |
| 31 |
Complete list of all the bugs fixed so that we know what we don't have to create a "work-around" for |
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Ten million dollar advertising budget which will be spent on TV, radio and print ads espousing the benefits to programmers of using Director to create applications, games, e-learning modules, etc. |
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Complete full support for "Linked Director Movies" (the ability to use Director movie as a sprite) - the equivalent of Flash's movie clips |
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Vastly improved IDE, decent code editor with intellisense / auto complete |
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FBX Import / Export |
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Being able to open more than one Director file at a time and being able to copy cast members from one file to the other |
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Incorporating a video plugin, such as DirectMedia Xtra |
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Dynamic concaveshape rigid bodies. We can't have a concaveshape body just stay static in the world |
| 39 |
Cross-platform projector and Shockwave that actually works |
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In-line editing of LDMs |
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More advanced & flexible vector shape possibilities |
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Advanced manual memory operations (manual memory cleaner) |
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Advanced text engine (with text and images scrolling) which may be based HTML |
| 44 |
More powerful built-in sound engine |
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Real flexible grid widget like cxtrastringgrid but with image and bitmap-castmembers support |
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Multiple UV channel support (3D) |
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Multiple timelines (a.k.a. Movie Clips) |
| 48 |
SW3D v 2.0 |
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Antialiasing of rotated / scaled sprites |
| 50 |
Stable DVD-Video navigation |
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Maya support / integration |
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Support for lighting, shadows, water-reflection |
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Integration with Phoshop Extended |
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Sound edit and control tool with effects plug-ins |
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Collada import / export |
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SQL support |
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3D Increased performance ie larger polygon models |
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Shockwave 12 Feature Request / Wishlist |
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No ADWARE. Clean, silent install |
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Reduce the size of the Shockwave plugin so that it is comparable to that of the Flash player |
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Work with companies such as Microsoft and Apple to get Shockwave to be a standard install in their OS releases |
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Work with mobile companies to get the Shockwave player on mobile devices |
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Linux Shockwave player |
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