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General Concepts

This chapter provides a set of subchapters about the general concepts used in CGI Studio.

9-patch image

Description The 4-slice scaling technique has been around in desktop graphics software for some ...

Dynamic List

Overview and characteristics The size of the list exceeds the limit to process/render ...

Integration of Monotype

This section provides an overview of the Monotype integration. The current integration is a hardw...

Text engine: Shaping

Shaping Stored texts are ordered by the reading flow. This means that every text is placed from ...

Monotype's Spark Engine

Introduction to Monotype’s Spark engine The Spark engine is Monotype’s lightweight font engine, w...

Colored Glyph Support

With the integration of Monotype’s iType library, the CGI Studio text engine now supports colored...

Integration of CGI Player

Integration of the Player into SceneComposer The Player can be started directly from SceneCompos...

Input Handling

Warping

RenderTarget Alpha Blending

Using the icons in the toolbar the user can switch between "Normal Scene Editor Rendering" and "A...