Troy,
Thanks for your comments. Here are some questions.
In Director, can you composite 4 images, one on the top of each other, each with a transparent alpha channel, and export the final single composited image as a PNG with alpha channel intact? I know they can be 'overlayed' on top of each other, but combining them into a single image with the 'sum of the alphas' is quite a different thing. This is not a simple image snapshot I'm talking about.
Can you edit the binary data of a single image? Can you reset the dpi for an image w/out affecting the size of an image?
And, can you create a standalone application which can be launched by clicking a 'document file' (not the app itself) and load the document file automatically?
Lastly, could you do all of this in 2 weeks? If so, I'm just wondering why I don't see more real 'apps' written in Director? In fact, I know of no commercial apps written in Director, though I can't say I've looked all that hard ;-).
Granted, my last spin w/Director was quite awhile ago, but at that time I wasn't sure it could do any of this. Come to think of it, perhaps the 'Flash Generator' server app (is it still around?) may had much of the compositing stuff in it.
In anycase, I would say if Director can do all of this, then hurray for Director:-), but it still doesn't diminish the serious imaging capabilities of RR.
best,
Chipp
Troy Rollins wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I'm not down on RR, but I also know Director quite well. ButtonGadget could not only be done in Director without any externals, it would have MANY more options. Director has a full compositing engine based on direct access to C libraries which is, to say the least blazingly fast, and incredibly powerful. Granted, it is an advanced function, and one which you don't often see, but in reality it is no harder than anything else. It is SO fast, that there is no need to render, buttons like buttonGadget produces can be rendered, and animated in real time.
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