The installation procedure is slightly different depending on the version of Director and platform used, and the location where Director is installed on your system. Make sure you have administrative rights to create files in the directory where Director is installed on your system.
INSTALLING THE XTRA ON WINDOWS - Director 8.5 and Director MX
Decompress the installation .zip file. This will unpack the Xtra, documentation and sample files to a folder named "ShapeShifter3D" on your machine. To install the Xtra, just copy the files ShapeShifter3D.x32 and ShapeShifter3D.dxr to the Director 8.5 or Director MX XTRAS folder. If you have previously installed an older copy of the Xtra make sure to remove or replace it.
These are the final pathnames for the Xtra file after being copied to the default location of the Xtras folder in each application:
Director 8.5- C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director 8.5\Xtras
Director MX- C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director MX\Xtras
No additional configuration is needed. Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The ShapeShifter3D menu item should appear in the XTRAS menu in Director.
INSTALLING THE XTRA ON WINDOWS - Director MX 2004
Decompress the installation .zip file. This will unpack the Xtra, documentation and sample files to a folder named "ShapeShifter3D" on your machine. To install the Xtra, just copy the files ShapeShifter3D.x32 and ShapeShifter3D.dxr to the Director MX 2004 XTRAS folder. If your copy of Director MX 2004 is installed at the default location, the files will be located at:
C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director MX 2004\Configuration\Xtras\ShapeShifter3D.x32
C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director MX 2004\Configuration\Xtras\ShapeShifter3D.dxr
No additional configuration is needed. Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The ShapeShifter3D menu item should appear in the XTRAS menu in Director.
INSTALLING THE XTRA ON MAC OS 8 AND 9 - Director 8.5
Decompress the installation .sit file. This will unpack the Xtra, documentation and sample files to a folder named "ShapeShifter3D" on your machine. To install the Xtra just copy the files "ShapeShifter3D" from the MacClassic folder to the Xtras folder of your Director 8.5 installation. The final pathname for the Xtra will be for example:
Macintosh HD:Applications:Macromedia Director 8.5:Xtras:ShapeShifter3D
Now copy the file "ShapeShifter3D.dxr" from the "ShapeShifter3D" folder to the same directory:
Macintosh HD:Applications:Macromedia Director 8.5:Xtras:ShapeShifter3D.dxr
No additional configuration is needed. Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The ShapeShifter3D menu item should appear in the XTRAS menu in Director.
INSTALLING THE XTRA ON MAC OSX 10 - Director MX
Decompress the installation .sit file. This will unpack the Xtra, documentation and sample files to a folder named "ShapeShifter3D" on your machine. To install the Xtra first copy the file "ShapeShifter3D OSX " from the MacOSX folder to the Xtras folder of your Director MX installation. The final pathname for the Xtra will be for example:
Macintosh HD:Applications:Macromedia Director MX:Xtras:ShapeShifter3D OSX
Now copy the file "ShapeShifter3D.dxr" from the "ShapeShifter3D" folder to the same directory:
Macintosh HD:Applications:Macromedia Director MX:Xtras:ShapeShifter3D.dxr
No additional configuration is needed. Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The ShapeShifter3D menu item should appear in the XTRAS menu in Director.
INSTALLING THE XTRA ON MAC OSX 10 - Director MX 2004
Decompress the installation .sit file. This will unpack the Xtra, documentation and sample files to a folder named "ShapeShifter3D" on your machine. To install the Xtra first copy the files "ShapeShifter3D OSX " from the MacOSX folder to the Xtras folder of your Director MX 2004 installation. The final pathname for the Xtra will be for example:
Macintosh HD:Applications:Macromedia Director MX 2004:Configuration:Xtras:ShapeShifter3D OSX
Now copy the file "ShapeShifter3D.dxr" from the "ShapeShifter3D" folder to the same directory:
Macintosh HD:Applications:Macromedia Director MX 2004:Configuration:Xtras:ShapeShifter3D.dxr
No additional configuration is needed. Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The ShapeShifter3D menu item should appear in the XTRAS menu in Director.