[Adobe Director 11.5 Serial Number 13
Jamar Lizarraga
I have some director application that we started using in an exhibition in 2008. I need to be able to make small alterations for screen aspect ratio and PC change. I have a trial director 12 but it keeps crashing. Any suggestions please?
Director is dead. SWF is dead. Flash is dead. So even if you had the original installation disk and serial number, it's still a dead technology that's unusable. I think it's fair to say you need to start over with Animate CC.
Thank you for this. I downloaded 'Animate' but could do with a worked example to get me started. All the application does is have a menu on screen 1 ( a kiosk) and then clicking the menu it shows a video on screen 2 (a wall mounted screen). Can you point me towards a relatent example please?
I'll add to the discussion. While Director is ancient, it still works on modern equipment. Windows is easier than Mac but still can work. I recently updated a Director made application I ade for a client who is still using it effectively (on Windows).
No. Director is no longer under development. Adobe stopped updating the product in 2013. They still sold it and updated Shockwave until 2017. From early 2017, Director was oficially at the end of life.
Hi,
In 2014, I bought a standalone copy of Adobe Director 12 from a 3rd party seller and have been using it successfully since.
A few weeks ago, I bought a new laptop and attempted to install Director 12 to that but was informed that my licence had been revoked.
On enquiry, I was diverted to a staff member, who informed me that the seller was never an approved Adobe seller and had sold me the software illegally. Clearly this was a failing of the company, not one to be passed down to the paying customer, so I asked if I could have my serial number reinstated, or a new serial number created, as I already have the installer and the reciept of purchase. (Bearing in mind that this is discontinued software and at no cost to the company).
They were extremely unhelpful and insisted on upselling me the Adobe CC suite, which if course, does not contain the discontinued Adobe Director 12.
As I've a partially finished product which took considerable time to create, I'm eager to get up and running.
Adobe customer services sent me here, stating "an expert will get your query answered." That query is, how do I get my purchased-with-receipt and revoked serial reinstated?
Thanks
Were you talking to someone at Adobe from the text chat area? The person hasn't given good advice to come here for a solution as:
- Most people here are not staff of Adobe so can't help with software activation other than troubleshooting.
- There isn't even a Director specific forum anymore so attention to this product is almost non-existant.
In terms of seeing the Adobe product and serial number in your Adobe account area, that's just if you manually registered it some time in the past. I have Drector 12 there but not other versions which I may not have added to my registrations. I was thinking that if it does show in your account, it would indicate it was approved by Adobe at some point.
So, besides getting someone else at Adobe, not quite sure what else to suggest.
Director was the primary editor on the Adobe Shockwave platform, which dominated the interactive multimedia product space during the 1990s.[1] Various graphic adventure games were developed with Director during the 1990s, including Living Books, The Journeyman Project, Total Distortion, Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong Nou, Mia's Language Adventure, Mia's Science Adventure, and the Didi & Ditto series. Hundreds of free online video games were developed using Lingo, and published on websites such as Miniclip and Shockwave.com.
Director published DCR files that were played using the Adobe Shockwave Player, in addition to compiling native executables for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Director allowed users to build applications on a movie metaphor, with the user as the "director" of the movie. Originally designed for creating animation sequences, the addition of a scripting language called Lingo made it a popular choice for creating CD-ROMs, standalone kiosks and internet video games content during the 1990s.
Director applications are authored on a timeline, similar to Adobe Flash. Director supports graphical primitives and playback controls such as video players, 3D content players, and Flash players. Director includes a scripting language called Lingo, and plug-in applications called Xtras, which are similar in functionality and design to ActiveX. Director supports a graphical user interface framework with basic controls and allows interaction with external files and certain Windows APIs. Director has been used to create applications, 2D and 3D video games, self-running kiosks, and CDs and DVD launchers. Director supports many different images, audio, and video formats.
Director includes a scripting language called Lingo, and a suite of 2D image manipulation tools referred to as "imaging Lingo". This subset of Lingo allows authors to perform advanced operations such as to bitblit. While a vast majority of users rely on the score timeline for the development of their work, a number of expert developers create stunning projects, such as games, that take advantage of the speed of imaging Lingo. These advanced projects typically use only 1 frame on the score timeline using Lingo to control animation and interaction. Director 8.5 added the ability to import, manipulate, and display 3D objects. The 3D features were quite advanced for the time, unusual for an authoring environment. The 3D capability includes the ability to create geometry on the fly from code, hardware accelerated model display, and advanced lighting features. It also supports vector graphics and 3D interactivity through a Shockwave 3D file object. Since Version 6, Director has supported the import of Flash animation files and Lingo can be used to interact with Flash's Actionscript code for more control.
One of the most powerful aspects of Director is its extensibility, which is achieved through plug-in applications named Xtras. For example, there are Xtras for OS desktop manipulations (creating folders, files, icons, shortcuts, registry editing) and Shell control, dedicated text processing (RegX), PDF readers, and many more. With Xtras, Director can be extended to support additional media types beyond those that the stock version of the software allows. These can be created by users or purchased from third-party vendors. They are created using Adobe Director's XDK (Xtra Development Kit), a C++ SDK. With the change in new versions of Director, Xtra developers need to modify their products to maintain ongoing support. With changing industry trends, many third-party Xtra developers have discontinued products and dropped support due to the cost of development without a significant return.
For online distribution, the Director can publish projects for embedding in websites using the Shockwave plugin. Shockwave files have a .dcr file extension. Other publishing options include a stand-alone executable file called projectors, supported on Macintosh and Windows operating systems, and with Director 12, output for iOS. Early versions also supported execution of the 3DO console. The Director score timeline can also be exported as a non-interactive video format, such as a QuickTime or sequence of images.
From 1995 to 1997, a competing multimedia authoring program called mTropolis (from mFactory). In 1997, mTropolis was purchased and buried by Quark, Inc., who had its own plans into multimedia authoring with Quark Immedia.
The first Director release under the Adobe brand (v. 11), released after a gap of four years, featured DirectX 9 and Unicode support and extended 3D capabilities based on the NVIDIA PhysX engine, as well as bitmap filters, enhanced video, audio and image file formats support, and Adobe Flash CS3 integration. Shockwave Player 11 was also released.
Version 11.5 added 5.1 channel surround sound audio capabilities, real-time mixing, audio effects and DSP filters. Also, there is added support for H.264-video integration for full-screen and high-definition playback. Other supported formats include: 3D importer for Google SketchUp, streaming support using RTMP and ByteArray datatypes.
The Macromedia Director engine was partially implemented by iskrich for the Google Summer of Code in 2016 and was further implemented by the Google Summer of Code students djsrv and npjg in 2020 and the Google Summer of Code students djsrv and sheep in 2021.
Point ScummVM to engines/director/lingo/tests, that will create target 'directortest'. Launching it will try to compile and execute all *.lingo files in that directory. The tests can also be run from the command line with:
Assuming you want to run all director movies in a given director. Create an empty file called 'lingotests-all' in that directory. Point ScummVM to that directory and add it as a game. That will run all director files in that directory. This can also be run from the commandline with:
There is a number of debugflags which could be turned on. The up-to-date list could be found in director.cpp in the DirectorEngine class constructor. You turn the flags with --debugflags=,. Please, denote, that messages are often stored at several levels, so add with something like debug level 5, e.g. -d5. Example:
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