Director 11.5 New Features Demos & Source
	With the recent release of Director 11.5, Adobe present a number of exciting new features to play with including new video type support (flv/mp4), a whole new audio engine and best of all byteArrays. A new page has been added to the Development section of the site to demonstrate some of these new features with a number of open source projects to act as a starting point for others. Go to the D11.5 New features page

	Collection of Recent Tech Demos
	Over the past few years I've created and uploaded a number of demos, but never got round to having links on site. So thought i'd take the oppertunity to add some.
	Realtime Earth with dynamic bump mapping, clouds, day/night cycle Realtime Transparent Polygon sorting and a zip with source. Realtime Glow via Additive Shaders Space Paranoids - Exploding Recognizer (requires Havok xtra) SW3D The future is Now. A document written up last year to outline features and developments I believe Adobe need to focus on should they ever update SW3D. Directory link to doc, html, rtf versions.

	Additive Blending Tutorial
	Finally a tutorial has made it into the development section. The comprehensive guide to accomplishing additive blending in sw3d. Go to the Additive Blending Tutorial Jorge Rodríguez made some improvements to the shader code shockwave blend modes

	Director Development Updated
	Uploaded a host of new demos and experiments to the D-MX section
	Realtime Ragdoll physics Realtime advanced water reflections Realtime shadow mapping 360 degree Pre-rendered backdrops mixed with 3D objects Highly detailed terrain texturing Massive terrain Superquadratics Quake BSP level importer