hi anthony,
i'm a fan of the squid soup work, as i said.
the composer tool seems preliminary, however, at least in its interface;
perhaps the underlying
functionality is finished. i don't think the PDF should be required. It's
no fun. Art apps
should need no manual. By saying this, I don't mean that their
functionality should be
simplified to the point where a manual is not required. But the interface
should have its own
built-in (toggleable) help system if help is required. Do you agree? I
built a help system into
http://vispo.com/arteroids . Perhaps it should be toggleable also, that
is, one should be able
to turn it on and off. CTRL+drag is not something I'd have figured out
without help. I know it
is sometimes necessary to have CTRL+drag if drag is assigned to some other
simpler or more
frequently used operation and it's great it apparently needs CTRL+drag,
but it needs Help.
Also, the interface is pretty dialog boxical. I think the user should
mostly have fun in their
face, not what looks like a complex dialog box. windowing.
But that's how it goes in interface design, isn't it. the difference
between version 0.5 and
version 1.0 in interface design is sometimes dramatic.
Do you agree?
Anyway, I *will* look at the PDF because I am very curious about your work
at www.altzero.com ,
but normally when reading a manual is required in an art app I don't
bother because it is bad
interface design.
> >what Director Xtras, if any, are you using in this piece?
>
> the 3D xtra (obviously...) and amplitudeXtra in composer tool only (not in
> the player), and a couple of other xtras (again in composer only) for file
> management. the rest of it (even sound synchronisation) is native
director.
how did you find working with the amplitudeXtra? Is it fast?
ja