jeff

Jeff converts Flash™ SWFs into a JSON/PNG format for high performance usage in HTML/JavaScript. The extracted content could be used to integrate Flash™ Animations in your game using your favorite HTML Game Engine.

Contains a variety of options to allow you to get performance where you need it:

Optimised speed performance:

• Asset rasterisation (faster than vectorial drawing)
• Image Atlas creation (to enable batch sprite rendering in WebGL)
• Extracting images with power of 2 dimensions (to enable mipmapping)

Optimised memory performance:

• Image compression (lossy and loss-less compressions)
• Animation Scaling (to rasterise images at the exact size needed)

Optimised ease of use:

• Gathering several animations in a single output: Reduced number of assets to manage
• Frame by Frame rasterisation: for easy integration in your game

Very good scalability: from both the command line as well as through the API, it can be used to do batch extraction on multiple SWFs.

Made at Wizcorp.

Install

For command line usage:

npm install jeff -g

For API usage:

npm install jeff

Usage

Command line:

jeff -s mySwf.swf

API:

var jeff = require('jeff');
 
// Writing extracted data in current folder
var options = {
    source: 'mySwf.swf',
    outDir: '.'
};
 
jeff(options);
 
 
// Returning extracted data in a callback
var options = {
    source: 'mySwf.swf',
    returnData: true
};
 
jeff(options, function (error, stats, extractedData) {
    // Uncovering conversion stats
    var nbFilesConverted = stats.files;
    var nbErrors         = stats.errors;
 
    // Fetching extracted data
    var imageNames = extractedData.imageNames;
    var image      = extractedData.images;
    var data       = extractedData.data;
});

Operation

• Will parse the input directory to find SWF files corresponding to the given source file pattern.
• Will sequentially parse and process the SWF files.
• Will export JSON meta-data and images corresponding to the SWF files.

Roadmap for unsupported features

• Texts (Static/Dynamic)
• Buttons
• Embedded fonts
• Sounds
• ActionScript

Roadmap for extract options

• Option to extract shapes under vectorial format
• Option to extract meta-data under keyframe based format (as opposed to per frame transformation matrix)

For contributors, see SWF File Format Specifications