Scaleform Reviews & Product Details

What I USED to like about Scaleform was how fast and easy it was to stand up a fluid UI with focus controls. In addition to that, the Flash IDE was great for design work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That the products used for Scaleform (Adobe Flash) are a subscription-based and as far as I am aware, no longer supported. As game developers, we need to be on the latest and greatest tools in order to stay relevant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has smooth functioning, amazing pre built integrations for popular engines which are actually very important.Moreover it gives access to all the functionality of flash developed in the past years. It also give the access to the full source code . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At times it gets difficult to write flash characters more than 40 times. Other than that it has no flaws and hardly have any dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The idea of using a simple scripting language to design and manage UI elements. That is great since the UI designers don't need to know C++ to create UIs, plus we can test the ui outside of the engine without no problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Well, since Adobe has made it almost impossible to get the older versions of ActionScript. It is a pain to onboard a new person. We have one computer with the correct version of adobe flash, and all the UI Designers share it. One thing I would say to change is using HTML5(html+js), please. We are talking to Coherent Labs about their middleware for our next title since it is pure-ish HTML5 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you know Flash, you'll be right at home. There are some things that you need to keep in mind during work with Scaleform, but in general the workflow is very similar to good old Flash Platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. No hot reload. You need to recompile swf, upload it and restart the client

2. Some Flash features are not supported, some are acting differently from native Flash

3. Support was slow and for some simple cases it was easier to patch the sources manually, rather then wait for vendor solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the middleware connection between unreal engine and flash Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

that is not active in the industry and outdated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is great tool for flash programmers. Good UI interface and smooth functioning, most of the things do not require core language understanding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The performance of this tool is slow and difficult to manage multiple layers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I used to Macromedia flash, it is easy to implement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Now flash is discontinued, now moving to the new game engine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flash was a versatile tool for building UI systems with a rich catalog of solutions to prototype and develop with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There was a lot of performance overhead for using Scaleform/Flash and the layer to interface with it was difficult to manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being AS based, there is plenty documentation and community examples for whatever you need to accomplish. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Performance can be somewhat better, especially on older devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scaleform gives you access to all the functionality of Flash developed over years, plus the ability to use ActionScript for scripting. It also makes it easy for Flash-savvy artists to control the art and animations themselves which can then be triggered by the programmer through ActionScript. You also have access to the full source code if you do need to make changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As soon as Adobe dropped support for Flash support for ScaleForm was also dropped, so it is no longer being updated, While Scaleform and ActionScript are still badly needed skills when it is used, because it's no longer supported it is primarily used in older games being updated for new platforms when there isn't time to redo the whole UI system, so these skills are basically a dead end and therefore I can't really recommend them for new projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.