2d game acceleration framework based on stage3d: Starling Introduction

Since the release of Flash player11 last year, the topic of hardware-based FLASH application development has been discussed among major media and Flash developers. With the hardware acceleration function, the biggest problem facing flash is that the presentation performance can be solved. With the hardware acceleration feature, flash can bring web games closer to single-host client games, this allows us to develop more brilliant and powerful games.

Of course, hardware acceleration is not limited to 3D content, but can also be used to improve the performance of our traditional 2D games. The Starling framework is the latest and powerful 2D acceleration framework, which allows Flash developers to enjoy the pleasure of hardware acceleration easily. The following is a text about the framework:

Starling is an ActionScript 3 2D framework developed on the basis of stage3d APIs (which can be used for the desktop of Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3 ). Starling is designed for game development, but you can apply it to many other applications. Without the need to involve low-level stage3d APIs, Starling makes it possible to write applications with fast GPU acceleration.

Most Flash developers want to use this capability to improve GPU acceleration (by using stage3d technology) without having to write such an advanced framework and study the low-level stage3d APIs. Starling is completely designed based on Flash Player APIs and abstracts the complexity of stage3d (molehill. Therefore, everyone can see the intuitive program.

No matter whether the text is translated smoothly or not, at least we know that using this framework makes it easier for us to use stage3d and enjoy the enhancement brought by hardware acceleration for our 2D applications.

Download an "Introducing Starling" On Starling's official website. This ebook introduces us to all aspects of the Starling framework. Now, I have translated this book into a Chinese version for you to download and read.

Original English address: www.iamsevent.com/upload/introducingstarling.pdf

Chinese version address: www.iamsevent.com/upload/introducingstarlingchinese.pdf