Starling 1.1 has been released
May 9th, 2012 by
Adrian
Starling (the hardware accelerated 2D framework for Flash using Stage3D) has been updated to version 1.1.
Some of the new features include …
- Support for Multi-Resolution Development: Create your game for just one resolution and deploy it to any screen out there, simply by providing different sets of textures.
- Use Blend Modes for interesting optical effects, without any sacrifices on performance.
- Enjoy a Performance Improvement on the 1st Generation iPad and comparable devices. Benchmark results skyrocketed by 500%!
- Display Live Statistics (framerate, memory consumption) through the new “showStats” feature.
- Profit from numerous bugfixes and performance improvements throughout the code base.
You can download the latest version from here …
http://gamua.com/starling/download/
If you are looking for some useful resources to get started, check these links out …
- Good starling Tutorials
http://www.hsharma.com/tutorials/
http://www.hsharma.com/tutorials/starting-with-starling-ep-1-intro-setup/
http://www.hsharma.com/tutorials/starting-with-starling-ep-2-welcome-screen/
http://www.hsharma.com/tutorials/starting-with-starling-ep-3-sprite-sheets/
http://www.hsharma.com/tutorials/starting-with-starling-ep-4-navigation/
http://www.hsharma.com/tutorials/starting-with-starling-ep-5-parallax-background/
http://www.hsharma.com/tutorials/starting-with-starling-ep-6-hero-flies-in/ - Introducing Starling - Free eBook
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024217.do - GotoAndLearn - Introducing the Starling Framework
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play.php?id=147 - GotoAndLearn - Starling Particle Effects
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play.php?id=151 - GotoAndLearn - Starling Physics Using Nape
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play.php?id=157 - Download – FlexSDK 4.6 and AIR SDK 3.2 (already merged)
http://gaming.adobe.com/getstarted/ - active tut+ Handling Animation States With Starling
http://active.tutsplus.com/tutorials/animation/handling-animation-states-with-starling/ - active tut+ Starling Particle Effects for Stage3D Shooter Games
http://active.tutsplus.com/tutorials/effects/starling-particle-effects-for-stage3d-shooter-games/ - Official Starling Forum
http://forum.starling-framework.org/ - Official Website
http://gamua.com/starling/
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