I saw "CCVideoPlayer" class in extensions but it also use UIView internally.
So I can't make video as background of CCRenderTexture class.
I really appreciate your help.

I really appreciate your reply. It is very helpful for me. I will try it. Thank you.

Are you able to use CCVideoPlayer instead?

Hi, I'm use CCUIViewWrpper class for putting UIViews onto CCLayer. It's very helpful for me.
But I need to make UIView under CCLayer.

I have a plan to make a painter app which is on the video player.
I already made painter app using CCRenderTexture and I successfully player video using MPMoviePlayerController.
But MPMoviePlayerController view is always top of all layers, so I can't draw on the video.

I appreciate any helps in advance.

Hey, good job :). I wonder how this works with the UIKit friendlier Cocos2D 2.0 :).

I think I finally have a solution! As the develop branch is ARC compatible, I decided to go with that as my cocos2d version instead of a version of 2.0. I was still having the same issue, but I found that on this version, I can just create a new EAGLView each time I load a document and call [[CCDirector sharedDirector] setOpenGLView:glView], which has the added benefit of having much better performance when loading in too. One very strange issue I ran across was that in my init function for my CanvasCCLayer, sprites created using spriteWithFile: or initWithFile: would just show white. Using spriteWithTexture: or initWithCGImage:, however, work fine.

Thanks for your help. Hopefully I won't break it again!

Have you looked into putting cocos2d into a UIView?
http://www.learningiphone.com/2010/09/post-a-day-5-uikit-cocos2d-view-based-cocos2d-application/

I've never done it, but I've been curious about it.

It's not exactely a game. It won't have collisions detections, particles system, etc... However, it will include an avatar editor where the user can change the look and outfit of the players and an animated cartoon to summarize the match.

Cocos2D is a great tool to animate things but is a pain in the ass to prototype a mockup and making a UI with tables, scrolls, text input.

If possible would prefer to use just one framework.

I didn't notice that the non OES versions were used in v2. Try to replace every instance of OES with ''. That will hopefully do the trick.

Thanks araker. I tried making the changes you said, but I'm getting a lot of errors along the lines of
Implicit declaration of function 'glDeleteFramebuffersOES' is invalid in C99
Any ideas what could be going wrong?

Thanks,

Luke

Those changes didn't make it into 2.0 yet, checking out the latest version won't do you any good. You could change the code manually, the changes aren't that big.

In CCES2Renderer.m
-replace the resizeFromLayer method with the corresponding method from ES1Renderer.m of the develop branch.

-add createFrameBuffer and deleteFrameBuffer methods
-replace the dealloc method
-replace in init

// Create default framebuffer object. The backing will be allocated for the current layer in -resizeFromLayer
        glGenFramebuffers(1, &defaultFramebuffer_);
NSAssert( defaultFramebuffer_, @"Can't create default frame buffer");

        glGenRenderbuffers(1, &colorRenderbuffer_);
NSAssert( colorRenderbuffer_, @"Can't create default render buffer");

        glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, defaultFramebuffer_);
        glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, colorRenderbuffer_);
        glFramebufferRenderbuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_RENDERBUFFER, colorRenderbuffer_);

depthFormat_ = depthFormat;
pixelFormat_ = pixelFormat;

CHECK_GL_ERROR_DEBUG();

with

backingWidth_ = backingHeight_ = 0;
depthBuffer_ = colorRenderBuffer_ = defaultFrameBuffer_ = msaaColorBuffer_ = msaaFrameBuffer_ = 0;

depthFormat_ = depthFormat;

pixelFormat_ = pixelFormat;
multiSampling_ = multiSampling;

if (multiSampling_)
{
GLint maxSamplesAllowed;
glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_SAMPLES_APPLE, &maxSamplesAllowed);
samplesToUse_ = MIN(maxSamplesAllowed,requestedSamples);
}

By the way ARC compatibility has been merged into the develop branch as well.

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! :) I knew there was something else I should mention! I'm actually using 2.0 beta, largely so I have ARC compatibility. Is it worth trying checking out the latest version of 2.0?

Could you try the latest 1.1 version from github (the develop branch)? I've recently patched the EAGLView initialization / resize code, because it didn't recreate the OpenGL buffers correctly.

I'm working on a pixel art editing app for the iPad that combines UIKit with cocos2d. I've implemented the canvas using cocos2d, but I'm having an issue switching in and out of documents as it requires a resizing of the CCDirector. The desired workflow is be to be in the gallery view (entirely UIKit), open a document in the art board view (UIKit with one cocos2d Open GL view), return to the gallery view, and then open another document of a different size in the art board view. My code at the moment for constructing the art board view controller is:


- (id)initWithDocument:(PixakiDocument*)pixakiDocument
{
if(self = [super init])
{
[self setSelectedTool:PXOArtboardToolBrush];
[self setSelectedColor:[UIColor redColor]];

This works fine on the simulator, but on the device I have the following error when changing size:


Failed to make complete framebuffer object 8cdd
OpenGL error 0x0506 in -[CCSprite draw] 552
OpenGL error 0x0506 in -[CCSprite draw] 552
OpenGL error 0x0502 in -[EAGLView swapBuffers] 272


I did think about creating different instances of CCDirector, rather than use the sharedDirector singleton, but that seems rather messy. I'm open to any suggestions.

Thanks for your help,

Luke

If it's game-y, do it in cocos2d. If it's UI heavy do it in UIKit.
You can also do it mostly in UIKit with a cocos2d view for complex animations.

Hi,

we are going to develop a Football manager for a customer. It will need a lots of menus and animations. I am familiar with cocos2d but not with UIKit.

Would you recomment to do the game in UIKit to take advantage of the layout tools for the menus? or would do do the game in cocos2d because sprites are easier to animate?

Seems like there are quite a few posters asking how to integrate UIScrollView and Cocos2D. From searching on google, there are a couple of blogs that cover the basic concepts of UIScrollviews and Cocos2D, but none of them had any code samples. So, I decided to make one:

Blog Post explaining the process: http://www.satishmaha.com/blog/2012/01/08/integrating-cocos2d-and-uiscrollview-with-a-bonus/

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/satishmahalingam/Cocos2d-and-UIScrollView

yes that sample applies to cocos2d as well, most kobold2d stuff does

Thanks rakkarage. Assuming I will understand the kobold2d example but how could that help me with my cocos2d question ? kobold2d and cocos2d are quite similar?

may i suggest you check out the kobold2d uikit sample?
there are examples of uikit controls above and below cocos2d views...

https://github.com/kobold2d/Kobold2D/tree/master/Kobold2D/_Cocos2D-With-UIKit-Views-Template_/Projectfiles

in AppDelegate he creates a dummyView
and in HelloWorldLayer he adds uikit controls above and below the cocos2d view

http://www.kobold2d.com/display/KKSITE/Home

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My game is based on cocos2d, but I also have two uikit views. I want to be able to dynamic change the z order.
Basically :

(1)Main menu scene(pure cocos2d) -> (2)game scene(cocos2d with uikit View on top)
-> (3)Setting Scene(pure uikit uiviewController)

From scene (1) user can either go to scene(2) or scene(3).

(1) Loading scene is simple pure cocos2d.
cocos2d on top of everything.

(2) cocos2d top uikit
Game scene is made of cocos2d + uikit(toolbar etc) and I need the cocos2d scene on top of the uikit view(will not cover all the uikit), so user will see both.

(3) uikit top cocos2d
Just need to show a pure uikit table view, need to be on top of cocos2d scene.

I have got 3 question for this:
1>
As far as I can say, I need to treat the cocos2d view(glView) and two uikit views as the same level subViews of a certain parent view, a uiNavgination controller or would normal view controller would just do ??

2>
Then I need dynamic change the z-order of those 3 views, how ?

3>
Would this whole thing work or there is a better solution for this?

No prob. Glad you got it worked out.

Nevermind, it was with "self" not "this", my mistake. That's why it wasn't working.

Thanks for your help clarus :)

Thanks, but since I can only do that through the current view, should I be able to call

[this.view removeFromSuperview]; ?

You can do that with:

[highScoresViewController.view removeFromSuperview];

Yes! You were right, I didn't initialize the ViewController. Now, how can I hide the UIView and return to the coco2d scene?

That's all you should need to do. Are you sure both highScoresViewController and highScoresViewController.view aren't nil?

Hi, I currently have a highscores board, which was made with iOS UIKit. Is there a way to show the view from a cocos2d MenuScene?

From what I have searched around the web, I've tried to do this by doing the following

[[[CCDirector sharedDirector] openGLView] addSubview:highScoresViewController.view];

But it doesn't do a thing.

Thanks in advance

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You can comment on the solution to my stuff up on the other thread and have a laugh when I follow up on the problem that I came across :)

Cheers

Shane

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