Cocos2d-x Cookbook

Cocos2d-x Cookbook

By : Akihiro Matsuura

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Cocos2d-x Cookbook

By: Akihiro Matsuura

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Overview of this book

Cocos2d-x Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started with Cocos2d-x

Introduction

Setting up our Android Environment

Installing Cocos2d-x

Using the Cocos command

Building the project using Xcode

Building the project using Eclipse

Implementing multi-resolution support

Preparing your original game

Creating Sprites

Introduction

Creating sprites

Getting the sprite's position and size

Calling functions with actions

Easing actions

Using a texture atlas

Working with Labels

Creating system font labels

Creating true type font labels

Creating bitmap font labels

Creating rich text

Building Scenes and Layers

Introduction

Creating scenes

Transitioning between scenes

Transitioning scenes with effects

Making original transitions for replacing scenes

Making original transitions for popping scenes

Creating layers

Creating modal layers

Creating GUIs

Creating loading bars

Creating sliders

Creating text fields

Creating scroll views

Creating page views

Creating list views

Playing Sounds

Playing background music

Playing a sound effect

Controlling volume, pitch, and balance

Pausing and resuming background music

Pausing and resuming sound effects

Playing background music and a sound effect by using AudioEngine

Playing movies

Working with Resource Files

Selecting resource files

Managing resource files

Working with Hardware

Introduction

Using native code

Changing the processing using the platform

Using the acceleration sensor

Keeping the screen on

Getting dpi

Getting the maximum texture size

Controlling Physics

Introduction

Using the physics engine

Detecting collisions

Using joints

Changing gravity by using the acceleration sensor

Improving Games with Extra Features

Introduction

Using Texture Packer

Using Tiled Map Editor

Getting the property of the object in the tiled map

Using Physics Editor

Using Glyph Designer

Taking Advantages

Introduction

Using encrypted sprite sheets

Using encrypted zip files

Using encrypted SQLite files

Creating Observer Pattern

Networking with HTTP

Index

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Chapter 1. Getting Started with Cocos2d-x

In this chapter, we're going to install Cocos2d-x and set up the development environment. The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

Setting up our Android environment
Installing Cocos2d-x
Using the Cocos command
Building the project using Xcode
Building the project using Eclipse
Implementing multi-resolution support
Preparing your original game

Cocos2d-x Cookbook

By : Akihiro Matsuura

Cocos2d-x Cookbook

By: Akihiro Matsuura

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Chapter 1. Getting Started with Cocos2d-x