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The [url=\"http://www.scaleform.com/products_gfx\"][b]Scaleform GFx SDK[/b][/url] is a light-weight high-performance rich media Flash® vector graphics engine, built on a clean-room implementation specifically for Console and PC game developers. Scaleform GFx combines the scalability and development ease of proven visual authoring tools, such as the Adobe Flash Studio, with the latest hardware graphics acceleration that cutting-edge game developers demand.

Using Scaleform GFx, companies can change from a programmer-centric static UI development environment to an artist-driven dynamic UI and animated texture production pipeline!

The heart and soul of the Scaleform GFx rich media engine is the Scaleform VGx hardware accelerated vector graphics technology, which tessellates vector graphic shapes into triangles that modern 3D video cards can render. By converting the data into triangles, Scaleform VGx can output vector graphics many times faster than traditional software rasterizers, allowing it to be used within high-performance multimedia environments.

The Scaleform GFx Advantage

Cross Platform: The Scaleform GFx engine is designed to work across a wide range of systems and easily integrate into existing 3D graphics pipelines, eliminating all portability issues. To date, the following systems and platforms have been supported: Windows, Linux, MacOS, QNX, Xbox, Xbox360, PlayStation Portable (PSP), PlayStation 3 (PS3), and several embedded ARM devices.

High Performance: Fully hardware-accelerated and optimized vector graphics animation playback allows developers to use leading visual authoring tools for HUDs and animating textures throughout the 3D environment.

Scalability: Vector graphics can scale to any size without degrading in quality, which enables complete resolution independence as well as dynamic LOD for in-scene texture replacement. Furthermore, Scaleform GFx delivers fully hardware accelerated high-quality anti-aliasing using a revolutionary new technique, Triangle Edge AA, that does not rely on FSAA or complex pixel shaders.

Small Footprint: Scaleform GFx is an efficient thin-layer system, specifically designed for resource constrained environments such as current and future Console and PC systems. Furthermore, vector graphic file formats are very compact and take up a fraction of the space that images and videos require.

Easy-to-use: With Scaleform GFx, UI and animated texture content is created in proven easy-to-use visual tools, which put the power in the hands of designers and artists, as opposed to programmers.

Source Licensing: For game developers who demand the control of open source, yet need the security, reliability, and technical support of commercial software, Scaleform offers a full source code license option.


The [url=\"http://www.scaleform.com/products_gfc\"][b]Scaleform GFC SDK[/b][/url] is a C++ graphical user interface (GUI) solution for PC and Next Gen console game developers, combining high-quality UI functionality matched only by the leading desktop OSs with the optimized rendering performance and effects of modern 3D graphics hardware.

Using Scaleform GFC, game developers will no longer spend large amounts of resources developing and porting proprietary UI control systems, instead, programmers can focus on doing what they do best, making great games!

The Scaleform GFC Advantage

Cross Platform: The entire framework and tool set run consistently across both PC and console systems, enabling platform independent game development and deployment.

High Performance: Fully hardware-accelerated and designed to easily integrate into existing 3D engines, allowing developers to quickly add rich graphical UI elements to complex 3D scenes.

Extensive Functionality: From simple buttons, menus, and combo boxes, to a complex rich edit, table with tree view, and tab panel, the library provides a wide range of high quality controls.

Customizable: With the Scaleform GFC Control Theme system, the look-and-feel of UI components can be completely tailored to match the game experience, leveraging the same transparency and color blending effects as the 3D engine.

Easy-to-use: Unlike traditional windowing systems that require tedious fixed pixel control placement, Scaleform GFC is built for rapid application development and features a flexible control layout system that makes it quick and easy to build scalable forms.

Localization: Supporting multiple languages is made easy with Scaleform GFC's flexible control layout and internationalization system, allowing text, fonts, icons, and other resouces to be changed without requiring additional form modification.

Source Licensing: For game developers who demand the control of open source, yet need the security, reliability, and technical support of commercial software, Scaleform offers a full source code license option.