Hi. I wonder what is the best way to include a short (210 frames with 800x480 resolution) intro animation in a game designed for mobile and using starling.
Is it better to embed flv or maybe render sequence of images (frames) in straling and enter frame event?
Hm ... the problem with stage video (flv) is that it's displayed below the stage3D layer (Starling), and this layer cannot be transparent in the current Flash Player version (it's planned to make that happen, but currently it's not possible).
The problem with embedding the video as a Starling MovieClip is that the textures use up far too much graphics memory -- that won't work, unfortunately.
But if it's an intro animation, you could first display the movie and then start up Starling. That way, you shouldn't run into a problem.
Hm, sorry, this was just a guess. I've never tried that, actually!
Has someone managed to switch between stageVideo and Starling? I have an intro video that I would like to show before initializing the starling so there would not be any start-up lag. Video works nicely, but after clearing the video, Starling is not starting up properly (not showing anything).
When the video ends, I'm trying the clear video like this:
_video.attachNetStream(null); _video.viewPort = null; initStarling();
If I don't clear the video, Starling content pops up like it should, but it seems that then there are at least some problems with bitmap fonts.
Interesting, I too have been looking for a way to toggle Stage3D and StageVideo. Seems like having them both running on the GPU can cause some issues. My app had some weird bugs as well. I tried your methode but was not as lucky, probably because I need to toggle the two depending on which section of my app your in.
It really seems like Adobe should have built in some sort of GPU-Manager API to help manage how much bandwidth StageVideo and Stage3D consume.
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