Starling Forum

1. 

   esDot
   

   Senior Bird
   Joined: Sep '11
   Posts: 177

   Given that Stage3D will not be available for mobile until AIR 3.1, would it be possible to use Starling in CPU/Software mode for the time being?

   If I don't use Stage3D, I still need to do all the good stuff that Starling provides in order to get good peformance (ie blitting from spritesheets)

   It would be absolutely awesome if I could develop on top of Starling for now, have it run as well as possible on mobile devices, and then when Stage3D becomes available we can just recompile and deploy?

   Please say yes

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   thibault.imbert
   

   Senior Bird
   Joined: Sep '11
   Posts: 94

   Hi esDot,

   No, actually, even when Stage3D will be totally supported on mobile, software fallback will not be supported cause likely to be slow. Stage3D on mobile will always use hardware.

   I am sorry, I would have loved to say yes

   Thibault

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. 

   esDot
   

   Senior Bird
   Joined: Sep '11
   Posts: 177

   Lol, well you tried your best!

   Ok, I have a couple crumbs for thought though...
   1) Would it really be so slow if I'm just moving textures around in 2D space? Would it still not be at least as fast as a regular DispayObject?

   2) The new MS tablet is a dual core i5, next year we'll probably see some quad cores in the market, performance on mobile is increasing fairly rapidly...

   Anyways, keep up the amazing work, starling looks sweet.

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. 

   emibap
   

   Competent Bird
   Joined: Sep '11
   Posts: 50

   @esDot I'm with you in your first point. I'd love to be able to use Starling for mobile even without the GPU acceleration. I've seen (and done) some games using partial or direct blitting which had completely acceptable frame rates with some code optimization.
   For instance, this slicing game I made for iOS was made using AIR 2.5 (Packager for iPhone) and performs well even on old iPhones (2G and 3G):
   http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/finger-slice/id455769901

   And even if performance is an issue, we could really use the benefit of a community supported framework featuring really usefull stuff such as TextureAtlasses, bitmap fonts, and a well organized display list alike composition.

   I'd love to use Starling in my mobile projects, but I don´t know if it´ll be my best option if I cant use the software fallback.

   It'll be great to have the option to decide to use the fallback mechanism.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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