Adobe Director User Group Meetings

• Shockwave3D & Flash 10 3D with Colin Holgate
• November 4th, 2008
• Recording (1h02m)
• Announcement & Discussion

Colin Holgate showed us how to create 3D content with Director & Shockwave3D. He also gave us an introduction to Flash 3D and point out differences to Shockwave3D. Finally we announced and launched another new (hopefully exciting) initiative by Directorforum, the Shockwave Showcase. The recording stopped just when Colin asked for further questions on Flash 10, because the Connect server went down. We had a peak of 49 attendants.

• Brush it up
• September 23rd, 2008
• Recording (1h46m)
• Announcement & Discussion

In this meeting Allen Partridge gave us an update on the Director 11 Hotfix 3 and commented on many questions concerning Director's future. Also we had a brief look at the Collaboration Wiki and last but noch least had a brief walk through some of the new features of Adobe Creative Suite 4 products, that had been officially announced by Adobe earlier the same day.

• The Director Community Effort
• September 2nd, 2008
• Recording (1h13m)
• Announcement & Discussion

In this meeting we introduced this new Director community resource called "Collaboration Wiki" and explained why, what and how. Also, in a second recording (0h25m), Alex Zavatone presented his fabulous button builder project.

• Future of Shockwave3D
• July 15th, 2008
• Recording (2h13m)
• Announcement & Discussion

With a peak of 58 attendants we were discussing various aspects of Shockwave3D development and a lot of feature requests.

• Current state & future of Director
• June 24th, 2008
• Recording (1h20m)
• Announcement & Discussion

We had a peak of 55 people attending and there was quite some discussion going on. Well worth to view. We also introduced the Director Feature Request System.

• Bugs & Quirks in Director 11
• June 3rd, 2008
• no recording available
• Announcement & Discussion

After a short introduction Martin Schaefer started to demonstrate some nasty text issues in Director 11.

Most of these bugs were already known by the Dev Team and Krishnan promised to give us a status update by next week.

Afterwards Martin Schaefer presented an issue reported by Luis Ferro with the message window being placed inside the right panel group, which makes it impossible to attach behaviors to sprites via the behavior inspector. Strange stuff.

After this, Lutz Westermann and Berndt Garbotz tried to present on various PhysX and 3D bugs and quirks, which turned out to be a bit difficult. The Adobe Connect system has a rather low frame rate when sharing the screen ... and ... for us non-native english speaking folks (me included) it's often very hard to find the right words to perfectly explain. Lutz and Berndt are already in contact with the appr. developers and they have put a lot of effort into preparing demo files and to explain the problems as good as possible.

At the end of the session Martin Schaefer asked for more open communication with the community and it looks like they are ready to change that now. The door can still open up more, and communication must improve step by step. These meetings are a great way to do so and we really hope that next time we will be able to welcome Allen and Tridib to the event. Btw.: Director has a new product manager, Rajnish, who introduced himself on Tuesday.

51 attendees was a great success and exceeded our expectations by far. Great that we all made this happen and we're looking forward to repeat that on a regular basis.