Scaleform Corporation is a developer providing

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for use in the

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. As a result of

Autodesk Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that makes software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries. Autodesk is headquartered ...

's acquisition of the company in March 2011, Scaleform has become part of the

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line of middleware.

Products

Scaleform GFx Scaleform GFx is a discontinued game development middleware package, a vector graphics rendering engine used to display Adobe Flash-based user interfaces and HUDs for video games. In March 2011, Autodesk acquired Scaleform Corporation and Scale ...

allows licensees to create user interfaces using

Adobe Flash Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash and FutureSplash) is a multimedia Computing platform, software platform used for production of Flash animation, animations, rich web applications, application software, desktop applications, mobile apps, mo ...

authoring tools, such as

Adobe Flash Professional Adobe Animate (formerly Adobe Flash Professional, Macromedia Flash, and FutureSplash Animator) is a multimedia authoring and computer animation program developed by Adobe Inc. Animate is used to design vector graphics and animation for televi ...

; the resulting SWF files can be used directly by the GFx libraries, providing similar functionality to the

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but optimized for use within

game engine A game engine is a software framework primarily designed for the development of video games and generally includes relevant libraries and support programs. The "engine" terminology is similar to the term "software engine" used in the software i ...

s. Scaleform provides APIs for direct communication between Flash content and the game engine, and pre-built integrations for popular engines such as

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and

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. Scaleform GFx can also be licensed for use as a standalone Flash

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on mobile platforms,http://gameware.autodesk.com/scaleform/advantage competing with

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.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

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(IME) for Asian chat support.

References

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External links

Scaleform's official website

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2011 mergers and acquisitions Autodesk acquisitions Greenbelt, Maryland Software companies based in Maryland Software companies of the United States