ATTENTION AS3 DEVS

In particularly, AIR Desktop developers. As you may know that StageQuality.Medium and Low are disabled in AIR Desktop - High quality is the lowest option. This is a hindrance to my game Armed with Wings, it's a hindrance to Matt and his game Epic Battle Fantasy 5, it's a hindrance to Veselekov and his game Ghost Ranger 199X and many more!

Any AS3 Game Dev will be able to appreciate the Low Quality options. Armed with Wings is a vector heavy game - it's actually quite optimized. However some people have older computers, and they do experience lag.

If I was able choose Medium StageQuality, everyone gets a performance boost. I could even increase the games resolution too.

The link below is to a feature request on Adobe's website. Please vote this request up.

https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=4123650

I've been able to inform the Flash/Animate CC team on twitter, they acknowledged the request and mentioned they would run it by the AIR team. Fingers cross this actually happen!

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kkots 2016-03-04 10:05:00

As an alternative I just use regular Flash exe projector, which is swf embedded in exe.

D-SuN 2016-03-04 10:05:00

That's a good solution, but sometimes we require AIR for certain features - It really needs a Low / Medium quality.

MSGhero 2016-03-04 11:38:19

Doesn't affect haxe dev too much, but I voted all the same.

D-SuN 2016-03-04 11:38:19

Cheers :)

Skeik 2016-03-04 22:20:10

Really feels like there should be better ways to handle vectors like that. I will vote

Kajenx 2016-03-05 01:16:20

You know, after working with Unity for a little while, and even after working with some packages built on top of flash, it's become pretty clear that flash is just kind of crap these days...

D-SuN 2016-03-05 01:16:20

Unity is more powerful and will be my 'go to' engine if anything happens which completely puts flash out of the game.

Otherwise I prefer to use Flash for 2D development over Unity purely due to workflow. I like MovieClips, AS3 and the DisplayList. I dislike Monodevelop, Prefab management and the unity animator.

Cyberdevil 2016-04-19 13:48:25

Will definitely vote, I don't have much experience with AIR in particular, but I do get a bit annoyed with regular Flash games that lag, where the right-click menu's disabled AND there's no quality toggle built-in. Better resource usage might be the solution in most cases, but adjusting quality is such a simple fix in most games.

On the topic of Unity vs Flash btw, I still opt for Flash since it's so much lighter on system resources. Hope devs have in mind that low-end systems can't always handle everything as well.