nflare

nflare, soon to be absorbed into Flare proper during the upcoming rewrite, is a powerful 2D animation software designed for creating cartoons, banners, games, and web content. Conceived as an advanced fork of nanofl, it maintains a lightweight footprint while modernizing the core graphics stack, improving user workflow, and extending features for modern multimedia creators.

🚀 Key Features

🎨 2D & 3D Graphics

• Vector Tools: Complete vector engine supporting edges, polygons, and boolean operations.
• Raster Assets: Native handling of png, jpeg, and rasterized svg files.
• Layer Management: Advanced timeline workflows incorporating groups, masks, classic tweens, and motion guides.
• Effects & Filters: Native color adjustments (alpha, brightness, tint) alongside production filters like Blur, Drop Shadow, and Glow.
• Gradient Fills: Support for linear gradients, radial gradients, and bitmap fill textures.
• 3D Integration: Powered by ThreeJS with native GLTF loading and automatic conversion from Blender .blend files to GLTF.

🔤 Rich Text & Typography

• Canvas Text: Full text styling, engine metrics, and custom strokes.
• Web Fonts: Native support for local woff2 assets and seamless importing from Google Fonts.

💻 Advanced Coding Environment

• HTML5 Core: Built entirely upon the EaselJS (CreateJS) engine framework.
• Streamlined Output: Compiles workflows directly into a unified, compact application.js file.
• Developer Tooling: Built-in boilerplate templates for TypeScript and VS Code optimization.

🎵 Audio & Asset Optimization

• Texture Atlases: Automated texture atlas generation to pack vector and raster layouts efficiently.
• Seamless Audio: Advanced sound system supporting clean loop playback, generating optimized .ogg files automatically upon publishing.

🔌 Plugins & IO Formats

Importers

• Adobe Flash Documents: Import legacy work directly via *.fla and *.xfl files.
• Vector Graphics: Native import for standard vector *.svg files.

Exporters

• Vector Outputs: *.svg format structures.
• Static Stills: Single image capture (png, jpg).
• Animations: Image sequence frames (png, jpg) or direct Video encoding (mp4) processed via integrated FFmpeg.

Extended Tools

• Batch Processing: Command-line support for headless rendering and asset pipelines.
• Modular Plugins: Extensible infrastructure for custom Filters, Importers, Exporters, and Asset Library Loaders.
• Dynamic Sizing: Built-in Support for flexible Scale Modes.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome community contributions to make nflare the best open-source animation ecosystem possible:

1. Fork this repository.
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature).
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature').
4. Push your branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature).
5. Open a Pull Request.

📜 Credits & Attributions

nflare builds upon the monumental efforts of the open-source community, inheriting dependencies from the original nanofl ecosystem:

• CreateJS / EaselJS Framework by gskinner
• ThreeJS Library by the three.js authors
• jQuery Framework by the jQuery Foundation
• FFmpeg Ecosystem by the FFmpeg contributors
• Silk Icons designed by Mark James

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nflare is an independent open-source software project fork and is not directly affiliated with or officially endorsed by the original nanofl authors.