https://wiki.starling-framework.org/ 2026-04-21T03:15:53+00:00 https://wiki.starling-framework.org/ https://wiki.starling-framework.org/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2014-03-06T21:51:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/basic_collision_detection Basic Collision Detection Collision detection is a substantial part of almost all games. Unfortunately it is also a part where lots of CPU cycles can get lost, resulting in choppy game-play and short battery life. In order to keep calculation costs down, it helps to exit collision detection code as soon as possible. Gradually refining the detection complexity helps doing so. Using Starling, we recommend a 3 step approach to collision detection: text/html 2013-01-14T13:45:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/combining_starling_with_other_stage3d_frameworks Combining Starling with other Stage3D frameworks Starling was built with 2D in mind, and that's where it really shines. For 3D games, there are other powerful alternatives -- like Away3D. However, even a 3D games needs a 2D menu, and other 2D overlays. What if you could use Starling for the 2D parts of those games? Actually, you can do that: you just need to have both engines use the same Stage3D rendering context. text/html 2013-03-31T01:47:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/create_stars_background Create Stars Background In Starling, you can create a particle system with PDParticleSystem, it's usefull, but not everytime. What if you want create a some background with stars, which fly from left to right, if you create it with PDParticleSystem you get this: text/html 2012-04-05T10:34:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/creating_color_gradients Creating color gradients In Starling, gradients are created with the help of the Quad-class. A quad is just a rectangle with a color (but without a texture). And if you look at the interface of the Quad class, you’ll see that you can not only set one color, but four of them: one per vertex. This is a very simple and efficient way to create color gradients. text/html 2016-04-26T12:08:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/custom_transitions Custom transitions To add a custom transition, you have to register a transition function at the Transitions class. Here is a sample: Transitions.register("shakyLinear", function(ratio:Number):Number { if (ratio == 0.0 || ratio == 1.0) return ratio; else return ratio + Math.sin(getTimer() / 100) * 0.1 - 0.05; }); text/html 2014-10-23T23:39:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/deploying_to_ios_and_android Deploying to iOS or Android Since AIR 3.4, the SDK contains a very handy command line tool to copy the built packages (“ipa” for iPhone, “apk” for Android) to a device. Here's a handy script that copies such a file to a connected device. OS X text/html 2013-01-22T16:40:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/finding_out_the_fps How to find out the current Framerate Note: Beginning with version 1.1, Starling contains a “showStats” property. Enable it on your Starling instance, and the framerate will be displayed directly on the screen. To find out the actual frame rate, you can use the following code snippet. Add it e.g. to the constructor of your game class. text/html 2012-04-05T10:20:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/flipping_an_object Flipping an object Sometimes, you need to flip an object horizontally or vertically. Starling's display objects do not contain a property that allow you to do so directly. However, it's easy to do so with the scaleX and scaleY properties. You just have to use negative values! text/html 2012-04-06T12:54:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/how_to_compile_starling_in_fdt How to compile Starling in FDT The current version of PowerFlasher's FDT Flash IDE prints out several warnings and errors when you want to compile Starling. Thankfully, you can easily turn off the errors and warnings in FDT 5. The tricky thing is to find the correct settings. text/html 2016-11-16T17:11:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/how_to_compile_starling_with_maven How to compile Starling with Maven Introduction remove“” Maven is a powerful build system, like Ant, but it's more universal, with strict workflow and build phases. Furthermore, it supports dependency management out-the-box. Flex Framework, Robotlegs, as3commons and many other libraries are available via public repositories, and there is no need to collect text/html 2012-06-16T21:29:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/image_tiling Tiling images is relatively simple, but can be made even simpler and more efficient by adding this snippet into your Starling source. Open starling\src\starling\display\Image.as Beneath the getTexCoords function, paste this: //Tiles texture, give number of horizontal and vertical tiles public function tile(horizontally:int,vertically:int):void{ setTexCoords(1,new Point(horizontally,0)); setTexCoords(2,new Point(0,vertically)); setTexCoords(3,new Point(horizontally,vertically)); } text/html 2013-05-29T20:41:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/ios_gyroscope_handler This class handles the gyroscope. You need to initialize in the main class of the game. Once the init() function is called, you are ready to read the gyroscope anywhere in your program, because it's a static class. No instantiation is necesary. You will need the EulerGyroscope Class, google it. text/html 2014-06-12T14:40:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/loading_zip-files_with_the_assetmanager Loading Zip-Files with the AssetManager Per default, the AssetManager cannot work with Zip-Files. However, you can add this functionality yourself by extending the class. As luck would have it, the sample class below does just that. * To extract the zip-files, I'm using text/html 2012-10-25T06:58:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/locating_the_pivot_point_of_a_sprite Locating the Pivot Point of a Sprite If you use Flash CS to design your sprites , you may oftentimes draw your graphics with the registration point on the “center” of your frame (i.e not the topleft). So how do you locate the pivot point which corrosponds to the cross in the center of your movieClip? Just follow these steps: text/html 2018-05-14T10:39:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/modifying_the_color_of_an_image_advanced Modifying the Color of an Image (Advanced) If you haven't already, please visit Modifying the Color of an Image! This tutorial is intended to provide further insight in how to better control the tinting process. var image:Image = new Image(texture); image.color = 0xA1B2C3; So what does the above code do exactly? That's what we're here to find out! text/html 2015-04-22T12:46:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/modifying_the_color_of_an_image Modifying the Color of an Image Have you ever wondered why Starling's Image class contains a color-property? Well, you can use that property to tint a texture in any color! While this can be used for different things, e.g. highlighting items of interest, I want to show you an especially useful way to save texture memory. text/html 2014-02-20T19:53:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/scrolling_image_tiling This snipet creates a scrolling background. The image must be 256×256, 512×512 or something like that. package screens.scrollingStarField { import flash.geom.Point; import starling.display.BlendMode; import starling.display.Image; import starling.display.Sprite; import starling.events.EnterFrameEvent; import starling.textures.Texture; public class ScrollingStarField extends Sprite { [Embed(source="data/starfield.png")] private const StarField1:Class; [Embed(source="data/starfi… text/html 2025-09-08T07:35:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.starling-framework.org/tutorials/start Tutorials & Code Snippets This section contains extensive tutorials that help you to get started on different topics of game development with Starling. Feel free to add your own tutorials to this list, and to add links to external resources! Video Tutorials