Starling Wiki - extensions

Adobe Animate

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-10-16T14:19:47+00:00

Adobe Animate Overview For a long time, Animate CC has been offering a “Sprite Sheet” export option. In Starling terminology, it created a TextureAtlas: one big texture that includes SubTextures for each frame of the timeline -- ready to be loaded into Starling's

Advanced Joystick

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:03:39+00:00

Advanced Joystick Overview There is a lot of information on how to use this Virtual Joystick at it's GitHub page. The README file offers a lot of useful tips. This Virtual Joystick is fantastic for Mobile Devices and works like a charm with the Hardware Acceleration from Starling! If you would like to see a Demo of this skinnable JoyStick, please visit:

Asset Caching

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-06-05T13:01:12+00:00

Asset Caching Overview If your application or game loads assets (e.g. textures) from the server each time it starts, it makes sense to cache these files locally. This extension does just that. Once an asset has been downloaded, it is cached in the

Bezier Easing

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-06-18T23:19:05+00:00

Bezier Easing Overview Easing transition compatible with Staring's Tween engine and Greensock's. Works like CSS's cubic-bezier. You can create you own custom easing curves here. Demo: // option 1, register by name Transitions.register("sharp", BezierEase.config(0.4,0,0.6,1)); Starling.juggler.tween( obj, 1, {y: 400, transition: "sharp" }); // option 2, use directly. Starling.juggler.tween( obj, 1, {y: 400, transitionFunc: BezierEase.config(0,0,0.2,1) });

Chromatic Aberration Filter

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-07T14:50:18+00:00

Chromatic Aberration Filter Overview A custom filter for Chromatic Aberration effect, as an extension for Starling 2. Usage: var filter:CAFilter = new CAFilter(); filter.angle = 2; filter.intensity = 20; mySprite.filter = filter; Authors:

ClippedSprite

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:03:38+00:00

ClippedSprite Overview “” This class, a subclass of Sprite, allows you to clip the Sprite's content in a rectangular area. The mask is always given in stage coordinates and cannot be rotated. Beware that the clipping rectangle does not affect the bounds of the sprite, i.e. the

Colortransform

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-07T14:55:56+00:00

Colortransform Overview The use of this style is almost exactly similar to the native flash.displayColorTransform. Here's a simple example on how to turn a fuchsia texture to blue. var image : Image = new Image(Texture.fromColor(256, 256, 0xFF00FF)); image.style = new ColorTransformStyle(0, 0, 1); addChild(image);

Creating an Extension for Starling

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-04-05T14:12:17+00:00

Creating an Extension for Starling First of all: Thanks for creating an extension for Starling! As you might know, one of Starling's top priorities is to stay as lightweight and simple as possible. At the same time, we don't want users to reinvent the wheel all the time

Cross-Texture Batching

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-04-12T12:28:43+00:00

Cross-Texture Batching Overview Per default, if objects in your scene use textures from multiple atlases, they will end up in separate draw calls. It's a huge challenge to optimize your scene in a way that keeps the number of draw calls as small as possible.

Distancefieldfont

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:05:04+00:00

Distancefieldfont Overview DistanceFieldFont is an extension for starling and FeathersUI to use Distance Field Fonts instead of normal Bitmap fonts. You can read more on Distance Field Fonts here: * Siggraph 2007 - Improved Alpha-Tested Magnification for Vector Textures * LibGDX Distance Field Fonts Currently there is no easy way to create the fonts. The program I have found is called SDFont. Do a search on Google for it. Also this currently exports the font file as a text and not XML.

Dynamic Lighting

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-07T15:02:44+00:00

Dynamic Lighting Overview These classes add support for dynamic lighting to the Starling Framework. This allows you to use normal maps for realistic lighting effects of 2D objects. baselineConstrained Demo The three symbols at the top represent the light sources, which can be turned on and off. The circle with the

Dynamic Texture Atlas Generator

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-09-02T14:32:32+00:00

Dynamic Texture Atlas Generator Overview The Asynchronous Texture Atlas Generator is a tool which you can run before your Game loads to convert the Vector Assets (symbols) in your Flash Professional library into TextureAtlases and Starling MovieClips and Images you can use in your Game.

Encrypt Assets

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-11-12T19:02:59+00:00

Encrypt Assets Overview This is the command-line application that can encrypt files in two ways: Hard and Soft. Hard does the encryption on the whole file and Soft does that only to a part of it (in this case images will be quite corrupted and decrypting will be very fast).

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-11-25T21:26:35+00:00

Changelog

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-11-25T21:27:03+00:00

Changelog * 2016/02/27 16:48: First public version

Feathers Extensions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-10-06T19:19:25+00:00

Feathers Extensions Overview This project add controls to Feathers UI : * Canvas control supports basic vector drawing functionality. * CircleProgress control displays the progress of a task over time. * ColorPicker control provides a way for a user to choose a color from a spectrum.

Feathers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-02-18T11:01:36+00:00

Feathers

FFParticleSystem

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:06:31+00:00

FFParticleSystem Overview [live demo] This is particle system is based on and compatible to the original but provides some additional features and various performance improvements. Thanks a lot to Colin Northway (Incredipede) sponsoring this extension created for his upcoming game. Important:

Flair-gradle-plugin

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-02-25T09:55:39+00:00

Flair-gradle-plugin Overview Flair is a gradle plugin that helps you build Adobe AIR projects (ios, android and desktop). Flair comes up with all tasks you may already use with Ant (compile, install, launch, etc...) but also with all files you need to start working on your projects. Last but not least Flair greatly improves resource management using an Android like approach.

Fluocam

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:06:30+00:00

Fluocam Preview Download Example: Zoom: CTRL + MOUSE DRAG Move target cam: On static bird drag the mouse wmode direct Installation a. If you’re using a Starling swc, you’ll need to create a starling.extensions package in your src folder.

Fullscreen No Stretch

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:06:28+00:00

Fullscreen No Stretch Overview This extension creates a second stage which sits on top of the root starling stage, allowing the root stage to stretch to fit the size of the screen without distorting your assets. The second stage maintains your desired aspect ratio, scaling up using the

GaplessLoopedSound

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-09-28T09:55:04+00:00

GaplessLoopedSound Overview Starling2D extension to allow playing of looped mp3's without the 'click' as it loops (due to the issue with mp3 frame sizes). In short mp3's are terrible for looping. The way the codec works you end up with encoder and decoder delay at the start and potential padding at the end. When this plays you gets little gap when it loops :(

Gauge

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-12-11T12:23:58+00:00

Gauge Overview [A sample gauge in its various stages.] This extension class displays a texture that is trimmed towards the left side (depending on a ratio value). This can be used to create a progress bar or a rest-time display. You control the gauge by changing its ratio property to a value between 0 and 1.

Gazman-sdk

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:06:22+00:00

Gazman-sdk Overview Gazman UI it's a great choice for building professional games and applications. It makes order and increase readability. Browse live component explorer here. Changelog * 2014/03/08 21:41: First public version Source Code Source code could be found on

God Rays

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-15T08:54:30+00:00

God Rays Overview A quad that efficiently draws a 2D light ray effect on its surface. That's useful for adding atmospheric effects, like the typical effects you see underwater or in a forest. (Demo Source.) Play around with the different settings to make it suit the style you want. In addition to the class-specific properties, you can also assign an overall color or different colors per vertex.

Graphics

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-09-22T05:37:08+00:00

Graphics Overview This extension adds a suite of graphics primitives such as Planes, Fills and Strokes. These are starling display objects that are automatically triangulated for fast rendering on the GPU. These primitives can be manipulated directly, or created on your behalf by using a familiar graphics

HandleSheet

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:06:11+00:00

HandleSheet Overview Use one finger touching to moving 、 rotating and scaling on Starling Baseed on Starling 實現單手簡單操作物件位移、旋轉和縮放 Demo () Feature What feature in HandleSheet: * one finger touch control button to rotating and scaling

HTMLBitmapFonts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-05-29T08:08:38+00:00

HTMLBitmapFonts Overview HTMLTextField is a Starling TextField for using with simplified html notation. ACCEPTED TAGS: * bold : * italic : * underlined : * size : or * colors :

Layered Object

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:06:08+00:00

Layered Object Overview This extension adds special type of DisplayObjectContainer with layers. Developer can link several DisplayObjects together and manipulate their transform as a whole. Such logic of display fits very well for games with top-down view. Consider following example:

Multidirectional Tile Scroller

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-07T15:13:24+00:00

Multidirectional Tile Scroller Overview MultidirectionalTileScroller is a Starling framework extension that easily facilitates multidirectional scrolling of a tiled texture. After instantiating the object with a width, height and texture, scrolling can be achieved simply by supplying speed and angle arguments prior to or during a play() method call.

ParticleSystem

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-16T12:56:37+00:00

ParticleSystem Overview This class provides an easy way to display particle systems. Particle Systems can be used to create special effects like explosions, smoke, snow, fire, etc. To provide that flexibility, it can be configured with numerous settings that control particle movement, size, color, etc.

Pixel Perfect Touch

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-04-08T14:53:19+00:00

Pixel Perfect Touch Overview This extension class allow you to create an Image display object that is touchable only at the points where alpha is 0 (or higher – by using the threshold parameter). Usage //First we must create hitArea for a bitmapaData used in Image. var myBitmap:Bitmap = new MyBitmap (); var hit_1:PixelHitArea = new PixelHitArea ( myBitmap, .2); // second arg is sampling for bitmapData //or var hit_2:PixelHitArea = new PixelHitArea ( myBitmap, .5, 'area_name'); //then trace …

Pixelmask

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-07T15:38:38+00:00

Pixelmask IMPORTANT NOTE This extension is used to achieve “soft” alpha-based masking and has non-trivial performance requirements, especially at larger sizes. It is recommended only for small UI elements such as button shimmers. Stencil-masks may be a better route to take for your masking needs, and are much faster with lower memory footprint. However, they do not support soft alpha masking so the edges will be pixelated. It is up to you to decide which mask to use, but please know that …

Quad Section

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-07T15:41:26+00:00

Quad Section Overview A Starling Mesh that displays a slice of a quad (just like a pie chart, but rectangular). Useful e.g. for a circular progress indicator, or as a mask for screen transitions. The QuadSection class can be used almost like the normal 'Quad' class. Use the

QuadtreeSprite

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:05:59+00:00

QuadtreeSprite Overview QuadtreeSprite is a Starling extensions which is useful when you need a container for large amount of children DisplayObjects which are usually not visible on the screen at the same time. Perfect use-case: Large 2D world map.

RibbonTrail

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T16:56:20+00:00

RibbonTrail Overview //0 - 2 - 4 - 8 - 9 //| / | / | / | / | //1 - 3 - 5 - 7 - 10 var ribbonTrail:RibbonTrail = new RibbonTrail(texture, 20); ribbonTrail.setStarToEndAlpha(1.0, 0); ribbonTrail.setStarToEndColor(0xFFFFFF, 0); ribbonTrail.isPlaying = true; addChild(ribbonTrail);

S3d AssetsLibrary

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:05:55+00:00

S3d AssetsLibrary Overview AssetsLibrary is a extension help you to manage Assets eg. loadAsset dispose or use TextureAtlas reuse texture and automatic choose HD or SD texture by new property contentScaleFactor (new feature starling 1.1) read at

SAP Particles Extension

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-29T10:54:13+00:00

SAP Particles Extension Overview SAP is a port of Alternativa3D Particle System to Starling Framework. This particle system is really well optimized for rendering on mobile. All particle data goes to GPU through vertexconstants. There are no any vertexbuffer uploads each frame.

ScrollImage

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:05:53+00:00

ScrollImage Overview ScrollImage is display object with a repeated texture. It can contain even 16 layers (ScrollTile), but all must use this same base texture. ScrollImage use shaders to repeat texure so we can use any texture (concret or from atlas). If necessary UV offset and other tranformation like rotation/scale/color can be changed without upload new buffers to GPU. It is a perfect high optimized solution for a scrolling backgrounds or other effects

Shapes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:05:50+00:00

Shapes Overview Adds vector graphics capabilities to Starling: Disks, Circles, Lines and Polygons. Copyright 2014, Fovea This extension was developed for the game Shyring. See it in action! Why? Why another extension, when there's already the Starling Graphics Extension?

Shinefilter

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-06-18T22:47:32+00:00

Shinefilter Overview This filter is just a conversion from the ShineFilter extension available as an extension for Starling 1.x. I re adapted for use in Starling 2.1. Add sample source code like this: // Example var shineFlt:ShineFilter = new ShineFilter(); shineFlt.rgbTint = Vector.([1, 1, .7]); _msgTextField.filter = new FilterChain(new GlowFilter(0xFF6600, 0.6, 2), shineFlt); // or single filter _msgTextField.filter = shineFlt; // as per the old extension you can set also positi…

Signed Distance Field MeshStyle

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-07T15:44:40+00:00

Signed Distance Field MeshStyle WARNING Distance Field Fonts Demo Overview Signed distance field rendering is a technique that allows render bitmap fonts with crispy result while upscaling. If you have not heard anything about this before, please, read this libgdx article.

Slotmachine

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-10-14T11:39:26+00:00

Slotmachine Overview Starling extension to handle reels/wheels rotations. mostly used for slot machine games. It does not support different icon width or height in the same column. It does support: transitions-based rotation async answer from the server (keeps rotating if no answer was given) stop rotation with bounce Mobile, Desktop and Browsers (tested on Android and Windows desktop)

SoundLiteAS3

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-12-01T07:43:26+00:00

SoundLiteAS3 Why SoundLite? SoundLiteAS3 is the result of thinking why does a game developer need to code certain game sound related tasks again and again, even though they are simple. For your game it allows very quick integration of features like

Spriteranimation

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:05:45+00:00

Spriteranimation Overview New Spriter animation playback. Supports Spriter version B5. Including bone animation support. var atlas:TextureAtlas = AssetManager.getTextureAtlas("player-atlas"); // load the texture atlas var xml:XML = AssetManager.getXml("player"); // load the scml var name:String = "player"; var s:Spriter = new Spriter (name, xml, atlas); // create an instance of a spriter animation s.play ("idle"); addChild(s); S…

SpriterAS

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:05:43+00:00

SpriterAS Overview Library for playing back Spriter Animation Files (SCML). Spriter is a Skeletal animation based tool that was funded on Kickstarter in 2012. It allows you to create smooth 60fps animations, with a very small texture memory footprint. SpriterAS is a highly optimized plugin for Starling, it can render close to 80 animations on low performance devices such as iPad 1 and iPhone 4, and much higher than that on more powerful devices. Each animations typically consist of 6-8 indiv…

SpriterMC

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:05:41+00:00

SpriterMC Overview SpriterMC is a Starling implementation for importing skeletal (and non-skeletal) animations generated with Spriter, complete with a familiar API mimicking Starling MovieClip. Features include SpriterMC generation from an existing TextureAtlas or individual assets (a TextureAtlas is generated from assets dynamicall), bone support, ability to create multiple instances with low overhead, Framerate-independant and adjustable playback speed and playback direction, swap entire te…

SQLsave

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:05:39+00:00

SQLsave Overview This is a simple class that works just like the SharedObjects in flash. Essentially, it just saves an object into an encrypted SQL database. It should work well for storing the information most games need to store, like the current level or a username.

Stardust-engine

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-05-18T18:11:22+00:00

Stardust-engine Overview Stardust is a particle engine originally developed for AS3. We have extended its functionality and made an effect editor for it. Features: * Effect editor with live preview. * Loader/playback library, that makes simulation integration easy.

Starling Timer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:05:35+00:00

Starling Timer Overview This class is designed to work as much like the flash.utils.Timer class as possible. There is additional parameter, pass in a reference to a Juggler to handle updates. Add sample source code like this: var myTimer:StarlingTimer = new StarlingTimer(Starling.juggler, 25, 0); myTimer.addEventListener(StarlingTimerEvent.TIMER, onTimerUpdate); myTimer.addEventListener(StarlingTimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, onTimerComplete); // To start myTimer.start(); // To stop; myTimer.sto…

Batch Renderer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:05:32+00:00

Batch Renderer Overview Please visit BatchRenderer GitHub page for a more detailed description. To use it, first you need to subclass BatchRenderer class: use namespace renderer_internal; public class TexturedGeometryRenderer extends BatchRenderer { public static const POSITION:String = "position"; public static const UV:String = "uv"; public static const INPUT_TEXTURE:String = "inputTexture"; private var _positionID:int, _uvID:int; // shader…

callLater

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-11-19T08:40:04+00:00

callLater Overview This project adds a callLater method to Starling Framework like Apache Flex.

Extensions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-09-25T18:39:36+00:00

Extensions Starling is lucky to be supported by many great people and talented programmers. Many of those have already created numerous add-on classes you can use in your game. This page lists all extensions that are available, giving you a simple means to browse through them and cherry-pick those you can use in your game. If you want to create and share your own extension, visit this page to find out how to do it:

StyledBitmapFont

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-11-16T10:30:57+00:00

StyledBitmapFont Overview This extension allows to colorize parts of a TextField, similar to what's possible with HTML text. Decorate the substring to be colorized with a simple XML-like syntax. This extension consists of the class StyledBitmapFont

Syrinx - Sound Manager

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-10-01T06:58:00+00:00

Syrinx - Sound Manager Overview Syrinx is a Sound Manager System which allows to play & handle sounds. Key features * MP3 & WAV formats support * Tracks registration / configuration management * Intuitive & friendly API * Seamless sound looping via silence trimming and/or WAV files format

Texture Mask

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-07T15:47:15+00:00

Texture Mask Overview Starling 1.7 added support for stencil masks via a new property on display objects (“mask”). One way to create such a mask is to use the new “Canvas” class for drawing a vector shape. However, for complex shapes, it's easier to simply use the pixels of a certain texture as a mask. That's what this class is for.

Timer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-12-11T13:06:14+00:00

Timer Overview Behaves exactly like flash.utils.Timer, though is more lightweight and is more accurate when the delay is set to very small numbers. The only difference in implementation is that there isn't an associated TimerEvent; it dispatches a standard Starling Event and its event strings are members of its class.

TLFSprite

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-08-15T15:08:33+00:00

TLFSprite Overview TLFSprite is an alternative solution to starling.text.TextField when needing to render sprites of text from OpenType and TrueType fonts (both device and CFF embedded). TLFSprite uses the external Text Layout Framework engine: as opposed to the classic flash.text.TextField to render text.

Tmx Loader

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:05:17+00:00

Tmx Loader Overview This extension will load TMX files created in the Tiled application which can be found here It is not set up into packages so you can set it up as you see fit. This extension enables easy tile maps using starling. It creates dynamic texture atlases for each tilesheet.

TMX Maps

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-11T14:05:13+00:00

TMX Maps Overview This extension is based on the one created by Shaun Mitchell, and allows a starling game to load and display a TMX Tilemap created using Tiled The major contributions include: * Compatible with Starling v1.3 * Target is Tiled v0.9.0 * Ability to use tilesets with margins and spacing

Wave Filter

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-07T15:51:33+00:00

Wave Filter Overview A custom filter for Wave effect, as an extension for Starling2 //creating and configuring the WaveFilter var waveFilter:WaveFilter = new WaveFilter(); var linear_source:WaveSource = new WaveSource(WaveSource.LINEAR, .01, .5, 50, 30); var radial_source:WaveSource = new WaveSource(WaveSource.RADIAL, .02, 5, 60, 5, new Point(.3,.3), 1); waveFilter.addWaveSource(linear_source); waveFilter.addWaveSource(radial_source); starling.juggler.add(waveFilter); //creating an I…

Zindex

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-10-14T11:50:04+00:00

Zindex Overview Simple class to help sorting objects by zindex. Useful if you need to integrete some kind of visual editor project in starling. Usage: Add object: LayerSorter.add_obj(display_object_container,display_object,zindex); Remove object: LayerSorter.remove_obj(display_object_container,display_object); Remove all from container: LayerSorter.remove_all(display_object_container);

Zipped Assets

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-06-04T12:41:50+00:00

Zipped Assets Overview Some assets, especially JSON and XML files, can take up quite a lot of disk space. That can increase the install size of an app or game significantly. Fortunately, though, many of those assets also compress very well when zipped