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Sjamientje
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October 27, 2016
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Adobe AIR towards WebGL

  • October 27, 2016
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Dear Adobe family

I know that a lot of loyal developers would be helped A LOT when AIR could be exported to WebGL. Even in a premium construction... I've seen a request for this feature on Bugbase but there was no reply from you guys. Does this mean that you're not interested in this? Or you just didn't see the request?

Please answer the community...

Thanks

Chamin

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Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
October 27, 2016

AIR is where you take ActionScript 3 and publish it to non-browser platforms. For example, iOS, Android, Mac and Windows desktop apps. To get WebGL you wouldn't need to involve AIR at all.

Converting an ActionScript 3 project to Javascript to do WebGL would be tough, so a better way would be to develop in Javascript in the first place.

Adobe Animate can do custom FLA types, and one of the standard ones is for WebGL. With that you could create some sort of Javascript based 2D application, and it would play back in browsers that can do WebGL. That includes iOS 8 or later, and I guess recent Android too.

Now, I suspect you want full 3D WebGL, and tools like Unity have done that, but Unity uses emscripten, which has quite a large memory overhead. Adobe could use that too, but Adobe's only tool that does interactive 3D is Director, and that hasn't been improved much for a few years now. There is no Adobe AIR or ActionScript 3D environment, they rely on third parties to do those things. There is an AwayJS custom FLA type for Adobe Animate, so that has possibilities.

Here's a presentation about how the AwayJS guy sees the future, maybe AwayJS would be a good enough alternative to pure WebGL?

The Future of WebGL with Adobe Animate & AwayJS | SkillsCast | 9th February 2016

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SjamientjeAuthor
Participant
October 27, 2016

Its not that I want full 3D environments. But we're developing a lot of our software in air with Starling. Those games are perfectly suitable for a web experience without Flash. But the existing tools which are based on JS just don't do the job properly in my opinion. Away3D was planning on a JS implementation for starling but thats on hold i think... so still webgl would be great.

    Colin Holgate
    Colin Holgate
    Inspiring
    October 27, 2016

    If you don't need 3D, then have you tried the WebGL 2D FLA type? What is the main advantage you see in using WebGL instead of Canvas? Canvas will work on more systems.

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