Chapter 14. Publishing to Shockwave

What You Will Learn

In this lesson you will:

• Learn to create Shockwave movies for Web playback

• Learn more about the Publish Settings dialog

• Compress images and sound

• Use Director to create an MP3

• Use the HTML publishing templates

Approximate Time

This lesson should take you about 1 hour to complete.

Lesson Files

Media Files:

bg_sound.aif

bg_sound2.aif

bg_sound.wav

Starting Files:

2d_game.start.dir

Ending Files:

None

This is the fourth and final lesson in the third project, an old-style 2D Space Shooter. In this lesson you'll learn about the Shockwave file format and publishing Shockwave files to the Web.

The space shooter playing within Mozilla Firefox

Being able to place Director movies on the Web lets you create a huge variety of applications for online delivery, from games to business presentations to 3D floor planners.