
52 Chapter 4: Building Your First Basic Movie
Change the default length of sprites
You can change the default length of sprites that you drag to the Stage and Score by editing the
Sprite Preferences. You will now change the default sprite length to 10 frames, which makes it
easier to compose a movie that consists only of 10-frame scenes.
1 Select Edit > Preferences > Sprite to open the Sprite Preferences dialog box.
2 In the Span Duration text box, type 10 and click OK. This new default sprite duration applies
to all of your movies in Director, not just the movie that you are building now.
Scene 1 of your movie is almost complete. Later, you will return to this scene to add Lingo
commands to the navigation buttons. Now you will start building scene 2.
Note: As you complete the tutorial, remember to save your work frequently.
Building the second scene with animation
The second scene of your movie will contain a simple animation of a tire bouncing. You will
import an image cast member for this scene and animate it to travel up and down on the screen,
creating a bouncing effect. This scene will also include a new button that returns users to the
first scene.
Place the background bitmap on the Stage
A bitmap is comprised of colored pixels arranged to form a graphic. The fourth cast member in
the cast is a bitmap that will serve as a background for your animation. Because the animated
scene will start in frame 15, you will place a sprite of the background on the Stage in frame 15.
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