Scaleform Corporation is a developer providing middleware for use in the video game industry. As a result of Autodesk's acquisition of the company in March 2011, Scaleform has become part of the Autodesk Gameware line of middleware.

Products

* Scaleform GFx allows licensees to create user interfaces using Adobe Flash authoring tools, such as

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; the resulting

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files can be used directly by the GFx libraries, providing similar functionality to the Adobe Flash Player but optimized for use within

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s. Scaleform provides APIs for direct communication between Flash content and the game engine, and pre-built integrations for popular engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine. Scaleform GFx can also be licensed for use as a standalone Flash runtime system on mobile platforms,http://gameware.autodesk.com/scaleform/advantage competing with Adobe AIR.The product was discontinued in 2018. *Scaleform Video, a fully integrated video codec for

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workflow support (currently powered by CRI Movie). *Scaleform IME, a fully integrated Input Method Editor (IME) for Asian chat support.

References

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External links

Scaleform's official website

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