Novice question, how does Starling display images? How to make animation? Do you have a demo to take a look at? Is there a tutorial suitable for beginners?

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I’m not sure what was used in that particular case, as these are just from the Starling demo, and were probably created for use in AS3 years ago by Daniel Sperl, the original creator of Starling.

Don’t worry though, because creating it again is certainly possible. I use TexturePacker 6.0.1 (the last version to support the ATF format), which I provided details to here:

How can I use the "MovieClip" animation exported from "Adobe Animate" in "Starling" when a newcomer starts using it?

MovieClip’s in Starling are different than the standard Flash/AIR MovieClips. For the most part, you should probably treat them as two very different things, similar in name only. I’ll assume you’re familiar with MovieClip capabilities in Flash/AIR, but in a nutshell, they are essentially capable of near anything there. In Starling however, a MovieClip for the most part, is simply a sequence of textures. Now if you’d like to export an animation from Adobe Animate as an image sequence, this c…

I’ve been using this for years, with a lifetime license. I haven’t explored options (haven’t needed to), but there may be other alternatives now.