Multi Touch in Macromedia/Adobe Director

 
 

Working with ReacTIVision we wanted to harness the multitouch capabilities within Adobe Director to allow multi touch techniques.


Using reactable’s reacTIVision engine we simply used the asUDP Xtra for Director with it’s built in OSC decoder to recieve TUIO commands from the reacTIVision engine.


NOTE: It was found that running the program under Windows XP yields the best results. Currently the OS X version of this demo is not good enough for testing.

CodeName: Director Multitouch

InceptDate: Nov ‘08

Updated: July '09


Basic Concept:

Use multi touch technologies in Adobe/Macromedia Director.


Project Links:

  1. •ReacTIVision

  2. •asUDP XTRA

  3. •Multitouch Director File V3**

Background

  1. 1.Run reacTIVision
    Download and run the reacTIVision Engine and simply run it with a camera connected. 


  1. 2.Test Fiducials
    The Director source file was programmed to work with Fiducials 9, 10 and 11. (These can simply be changed in lingo.) These Fiducials are supplied with the Director source file.


  1. 3.Install Xtras
    Download the asUDP Xtra (which comes with the Bytes Xtra) and install for Director.


  1. 4.Run TUIO Demo.dir
    With the reacTIVision engine running simply run the Director program. You should now have 3 interactive sprites simultaneously.

Workflow

This is very much a proof of concept demonstration. The plan in the new year is to develop it further to optimise the lingo and to make simple behaviors to harness the multi-touch capabilities.


Currently we have a working multi-touch lightbox (similar to iPhone move and stretch) with multiple inputs.


In developing the POC Director was found to work smoothly with up to 10 interactive points, making it much smoother than the Flash version of TUIO.


Will be posting update on this early next year. In the meantime feel free to forward you versions of multi-touch Director implementations!

 

UPDATED DIR FILE V3

The new Dir file above is a bit more streamlined and should be much more solid. Also commented better to help you make your own.

Next Steps