Tuesday, 3 April 2007

Blog 6 The thing about macs

Such a delightful day, there was sunshine, clouds, and many other things associated with the weather today. For the middle part of my day I spent inside "playing" at the computer.

Today’s class was dedicated to the completion of the first assessment. Sounded easy and working simply it was easy enough right up until it came to sound.

I have the basic theory of sound and noise in director.

Option 1 for a mono track of background sounds just drag and drop on the upper section of the stage.

Option 2 much like option one except the second audio track is used as well to create those soundy, panny, swapping between speaker sounds.

Option 3 works just like flash on buttons, in the behaviour inspector window (not to be confused with the property behaviour window) label the action then set it according to the appropriate mouse action i.e. mouse over and then set the action to play sound.

I personally tested and had good results with option one, unfortunately it was on Brendan's work, but it is a minor victory.

For reasons beyond my comprehension to technology gods found it necessary to stop the sound function working in director. Although it could just be a case of Mac sickness but the usual remedies all failed, threats, attempted violence, restarting the program, restarting the machine and even physically moving to another machine all ended in a project suitable for the hearing impaired.

Well it is off to mid semester holidays where I'll be working hard... or hardly working

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