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Cocos2d-x Cookbook

By : Akihiro Matsuura
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Cocos2d-x Cookbook

By: Akihiro Matsuura

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Cocos2d-x Cookbook
Akihiro Matsuura
Nov, 2015 | 254 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Cocos2d-x Cookbook
Cocos2d-x Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Started with Cocos2d-x
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
2
Creating Sprites
Creating Sprites
Introduction
Creating sprites
Getting the sprite's position and size
Manipulating sprites
Creating animations
Creating actions
Controlling actions
Calling functions with actions
Easing actions
Using a texture atlas
Using a batch node
Using 3D modals
Detecting collisions
Drawing a shape
3
Working with Labels
Working with Labels
Creating system font labels
Creating true type font labels
Creating bitmap font labels
Creating rich text
4
Building Scenes and Layers
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
5
Creating GUIs
Creating GUIs
Introduction
Creating menus
Creating buttons
Creating checkboxes
Creating loading bars
Creating sliders
Creating text fields
Creating scroll views
Creating page views
Creating list views
6
Playing Sounds
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
7
Working with Resource Files
Working with Resource Files
Selecting resource files
Managing resource files
Using SQLite
Using .xml files
Using .plist files
Using .json files
8
Working with Hardware
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
9
Controlling Physics
Controlling Physics
Introduction
Using the physics engine
Detecting collisions
Using joints
Changing gravity by using the acceleration sensor
10
Improving Games with Extra Features
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
11
Taking Advantages
Taking Advantages
Introduction
Using encrypted sprite sheets
Using encrypted zip files
Using encrypted SQLite files
Creating Observer Pattern
Networking with HTTP
Index
Index

Installing Cocos2d-x

Getting ready

To follow this recipe, you need to download the zip file from the official site of Cocos2d-x (http://www.cocos2d-x.org/download).

At the time of writing this book, version 3.4 was the latest stable version that was available. This version will be used throughout this book.

How to do it...

  1. Unzip your file to any folder. This time, we will install the user's home directory. For example, if the user name is syuhari, then the install path is /Users/syuhari/cocos2d-x-3.4. In this book, we call it COCOS_ROOT.

  2. The following steps will guide you through the process of setting up Cocos2d-x:

    • Open the terminal

    • Change the directory in terminal to COCOS_ROOT, using the following command:

      $ cd ~/cocos2d-x-v3.4

    • Run setup.py, using the following command:

      $ ./setup.py

    • The terminal will ask you for NDK_ROOT. Enter into NDK_ROOT path.

    • The terminal will then ask you for ANDROID_SDK_ROOT. Enter the ANDROID_SDK_ROOT path.

    • Finally, the terminal will ask you for ANT_ROOT. Enter the ANT_ROOT path.

    • After the execution of the setup.py command, you need to execute the following command to add the system variables:

      $ source ~/.bash_profile

      Tip

      Open the .bash_profile file, and you will find that setup.py shows how to set each path in your system. You can view the .bash_profile file using the cat command:

      $ cat ~/.bash_profile

  3. We now verify whether Cocos2d-x can be installed:

    • Open the terminal and run the cocos command without parameters:

      $ cocos

    • If you can see a window like the following screenshot, you have successfully completed the Cocos2d-x install process:

How it works...

Let's take a look at what we did throughout the above recipe. You can install Cocos2d-x by just unzipping it. You know setup.py is only setting up the cocos command and the path for Android build in the environment. Installing Cocos2d-x is very easy and simple. If you want to install a different version of Cocos2d-x, you can do that too. To do so, you need to follow the same steps that are given in this recipe, but they will be for a different version.

There's more...

Setting up the Android environment is a bit tough. If you recently started to develop Cocos2d-x, you can skip the settings part of Android. and you can do it when you run on Android. In this case, you don't have to install Android SDK, NDK, and Apache ANT. Also, when you run setup.py, you only press Enter without entering a path for each question.

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