What's New in Director 8.5 > Getting Started > Getting started overview

 

Getting started overview

Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio offers several new features that enhance the capabilities of Macromedia Director and Shockwave movies. The main improvements of this release are as follows:

Support for interactive three-dimensional (3D) graphics.

Enhancements to the Shockwave Multiuser Server and Xtra that enable server-side scripting, multithreading, and file access. Using server-side scripts can dramatically simplify your multiuser movies by placing most of the required logic on the server.

Support for Flash 5 and additions to Lingo that provide control over the new features of Flash 5 movies.

 
Where to start

To use these new features, you need to understand Director basics. If you are new to Director, start by reading Using Director Shockwave Studio for Director 8 and completing the Director 8 tutorial found there.