I am updating a ten year old project so it runs on OS X.

To get optimal performance I kept everything inside one big repeat loop, with smaller repeat loops nested inside (e.g. while the mouseDown, etc.), instead of using go to the frame.

It seems though that now this is seen by the operating system as an unresponsive process, and therefore produces the ‘wait’ cursor.

You can test this with a very basic script:

on exitFrame me
repeat while 1=1
cursor 200
updateStage
end repeat
end

I’m not really up for stripping the code from all the repeat loops (i.e. rewriting everything), if you have a workaround let me know.

I have added a new page to the blog titled Director resources with a big list of Director and Shockwave 3D resources links.

Since FLash is leading the Industry, Director is not getting enough attention, but I’m still considering it as a very powerful tool.

This is probably one of the most impressive and longest demo ever done in Shockwave. (You will need the shockwave plug-in)

Worth to take a look the latest Shockwave pieces of Andreas Gysin. My favourites are Sky and f/a - 18. (You will need the shockwave plug-in)

Again cleaning up my old Mac files I found some interesting experiments.

In this case I was reorganizing the process files for one of the exhibitions I did last year in Spain and I found this piece of shockwave where I was trying to play a video texture over a video background inside a fluid 3d object.

experiment 1 (forget about the graphics… it is just a dummie movie, and move the mouse to play with the curtain)

Some pictures of the exhibition.