AlphaMania 2.1.1 review

Media Lab's AlphaMania and Effector Sets bundle of Xtras bring cross-platform and interactive special effects to Director.

License: Comercialware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: MaediaLab Buy Now Price: $199.00 Updated: 25 May 2006

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Media Lab's AlphaMania and Effector Sets bundle of Xtras bring cross-platform and interactive special effects to Director. Swirling, colorization, magnification, blurring, embossing - all interactive and controllable.

These effects are programmed in straight to-the-metal C code and give outstanding performance. They are fast and reliable.

With Effector Sets you can apply multiple effects simlutaneously, and control their order. With our handy Set FX interface and a complete library of behaviors, no Lingo programming is required. For authors who do want absolute control they will find a whole library of new Lingo commands and properties available to them.

AlphaMania is the base engine - it creates a new custom cast type in Director that acts pretty much like a normal bitmap castmember. The other two Xtras, Effector Set I and Effector Set II, plug into AlphaMania and provide the special effects.

Here are some key features of "AlphaMania":
Real time interactive special effects.
Live anti-aliasing
Live alpha channel compositing - fast!
Batch importing of PICT/TGA files
Batch importing of Photoshop layers (requires PhotoCaster)
Scaling
Flying masks ("cut-through" effect)
Never before possible effects like dynamic embossing
Automatic Download with Shockwave.

Requirements:
Macintosh Power PC
OS 7.61 or higher, including OS X
Director version 5 or higher, including Director MX 2004.