Director 8.5 added the ability to import, manipulate, and display 3D objects. These advanced projects used only 1 frame on the timeline and the display, movement and behavior loop(s) of memory-based sprites (rather than time-line based ones) were handled natively in Lingo. While a vast majority of users relied on the timeline for the development of their work, a number of expert developers began creating stunning projects, especially games, that took advantage of the speed of imaging Lingo.
This subset of Lingo allows authors to perform advanced operations such as to bitblit. Built into the language are a suite of very powerful 2D bitmap manipulation tools, referred to as 'imaging Lingo'. Director supports many different bitmap, audio, and video formats.
It has also been used to author interactive games with rich graphics and embedded QuickTime movies. Director has a powerful scripting language called Lingo which allows sufficient interaction with external files and certain Windows APIs that it has been used to mockup Graphical user interfaces and create prototypes of applications, as well as create self-running Kiosks on CDs and DVDs.
