Animation Math in Lingo™ Tutorial and Resource

Welcome
This is a guide to programming animation with Director's Lingo. It's a series that progresses in textbook fashion from simple to advanced animation programming. The three types of generating animation covered are incremental, parametric, and recorded. In addition there are some sections on important topics like model/display separation, object-oriented programming, and 3D concepts.

Starting Up
No previous knowledge of animation techniques is assumed, although you should be familiar with lingo basics: handlers, variables, repeat loops, if/then, sprite properties like loch/locv, attaching scripts to sprites, and how to get around in the Director environment.

Sample Code
Code from the demos may be reused freely. If you wish to excerpt the guide, please credit this site. A note about copy/paste of code off the pages—some invisible characters cause script errors in Director, so it's best to get the code from the source movie.

Feedback & Questions
Head over to the discussion forum, or zap me an email at jmckell~at~jmckell~dot~com.

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