Adobe Director 11.5 by month’s end
How the world has changed! It wasn’t long ago that an important (ie $299) Adobe Director update would have been a top news story around the Mac blogsphere. Today, FairPlatform is one of the few to even list the story
Adobe Systems has announced that Director 11.5 will ship by the end of this month. Offering game developers, multimedia authors, and e-learning professionals a host of new features for creating immersive gaming and multimedia applications, this updated version provides support for a new audio engine, high-definition (HD) video and advanced 3-D features, for a rich and flexible platform to create applications for both online and desktop worlds.
“Director 11.5 is a significant milestone in our mission to deliver an advanced set of audio and video features for game developers and multimedia application authors,” said Naresh Gupta, senior vice president, Print and Publishing at Adobe. “With the brand new audio engine in Director 11.5 along with high quality video, developers can now create 3-D online gaming experiences that are simply unparalleled in this space.”
The new features in Director 11.5 include a new audio engine that allows developers to deliver 5.1 channel surround sound and create audio effects using real-time mixing capabilities. With support for the H.264 format and RTMP-based streaming, users are able to deliver HD video content. Developers can also create and import 3-D assets through Google SketchUp and SketchUp 3-D Importer. In addition, advanced physics capabilities based on the NVIDIA PhysX engine help users create games and simulations that model real-world gravity and other life-like effects.
Adobe Director 11.5 is expected to be available by the end of March 2009 and is priced at US$999 for the full product and US$299 for an upgrade from the prior versions of Director.
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