Autodesk Scaleform

Autodesk Scaleform is a Flash®-based user interface (UI) solution for PCs, game consoles, and consumer devices.

Autodesk Scaleform combines the power and performance of modern 3D graphics technology with the proven productivity and workflow of Adobe® Flash® and Creative Suite®, resulting in the faster creation of higher quality content. Its powerful features have made Autodesk Scaleform the trusted solution on over 800 projects, from big budget AAA titles to smaller budget casual games and consumer electronics.

A Design-Driven Workflow

Scaleform Workflow

STEP 1

  • Create UI assets, including bitmaps, vectors, audio, and video using the Adobe Creative Suite®.

STEP 2

  • Bring your UI to life by importing assets into Flash® Studio and adding interactivity and animation.

STEP 3

  • Export Flash® content to your game (powered by Scaleform) and connect the UI.

STEP 4

  • Test the Flash® content navigation, localization and functionality running in your game.

Why Scaleform?

Streamlined Workflow

Scaleform enables developers to utilize the Adobe Creative Suite to create menus, UI elements and 2D graphics for modern 3D games. Development is streamlined by empowering artists to create and rapidly iterate 2D assets using the Adobe toolset with little programming support which results in decreased labor costs and improved time to market.

Custom Tools and Kits

Scaleform provides a library of pre-built, highly optimized UI components that cover a broad range of uses including buttons, check boxes, dropdown menus and text input boxes. In addition, a variety of fully functional UI kits have been created to demonstrate Scaleform best practices and give designers a head-start on common use cases.

Multi-threaded Graphics Rendering

Our rendering engine combines multi-threading with the latest hardware features, making it the fastest hardware-accelerated vector graphics software available today. Rendering performance gains of 3-5x have been reported, in addition to a significant reduction in draw primitives and CPU/GPU workload caused by advanced batching and sorting protocol.

Mobile Functionality

Compatible with iOS and Android-powered devices, Scaleform allows mobile developers to leverage Scaleform’s lightening fast, hardware accelerated 2D graphic engine to create 2D and 3D applications, UIs and games.

Easy Integration

Scaleform is fully integrated with all major 3rd party game engines, including UE3, CryEngine, Vision Engine, (Unity coming soon) and Infernal. For in-house engines, the Scaleform API is delivered as a set of C++ header files and libraries with comprehensive documentation and videos to assist with the integration.

Integration with Unreal® Engine 3

Scaleform comes pre-integrated with Unreal Engine 3, making it simple for game teams utilizing Unreal Engine to get up and running with Scaleform.

Mature, Proven Toolset

Scaleform has been successfully integrated in over 800 triple A game titles. Demonstrating this is a mature toolset that is stable and well supported.