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v0.99.5-rc0 released

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Started 1 year ago by riq
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riq
Key Master

Hi,

I'm happy to announce that v0.99.5-rc0 is available for download:
cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5rc0.tar.gz

Release Notes: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/wiki/doku.php/release_notes:0_99_5 (MUST READ)

Highlights of this version:
- Improved Retina Display support
- Improved EAGLView object
- Improved Templates (installs HD, iPad and spolight icons. Flicker was fixed)
- Added AnimationCache
and many bug fixes.

Full Changelog:
CHANGELOG

I would appreciate if you could test it in your games and report any issue that you might find. Thanks!

Posted 1 year ago #
MikeSz
Member

Great ! I really wanted to ask when it will be ready and here it is !

Will try to migrate to it tomorrow (from .99.5.b2) and will let you know

Posted 1 year ago #
Shogan
Member

Wow, just as I was reading up on the previous version and about to download that and migrate my game into the *new* templates! Good thing I went for that coffee :D

Posted 1 year ago #
Shogan
Member

That was epic (changing over to new templates). I changed from 0.99.4.

Started off with 8000+ errors. (Most I soon found out were because of my OpenFeint integration - forgot to sort out the prefixes in my _Prefix.pch file.

Then I had tons of isAccelerometerEnabled and isTouchEnabled to sort out - luckily I found those had changed in the Changelog :)
Also had to figure out the new naming convention for Transitions (I was just using Left and Right transitions for menus) - this was easy enough using autocomplete.
Did a Find and Replace to change all my CCLabels to CCLabelTTF throughout.
Added a few compiler settings for OpenFeint again.
Added all my resources back in again of course (first step)

Then got it all up and running :) Happy to have autorotation in my game now! All I need to do is sort out my two UIKit objects in my options menu (UISliders).

Thanks riq, this is awesome. I had a quick play through my game and have not run into any issues yet...

Posted 1 year ago #
JohnnyFlash
Member

@riq: code is great except for one thing. If someone has already done all the work in their app to deal with the retina display and has all of his code in pixels, things get broken by upgrading to the latest version.

So far I have come across two things:
1) CCDrawingPrimatives ... I use this a lot for drawing debug areas and such. Not a big deal as creating InPixel versions of the functions was easy.
2) Touches ... using functions like convertTouchToNodeSpaceAR:touch does not work anymore as all functions convert the touch to points.

Given all of this: is there a safe way to set __ccContentScaleFactor back to 1 without impacting the retina display?

Posted 1 year ago #
abitofcode
Moderator

magic! :D The RenderTexture changes alone are worth the migration.

Posted 1 year ago #
manucorporat
Member

Great work fixing issues!!!

Posted 1 year ago #
riq
Key Master
@JohnnyFlash:
My suggestion is using the Point API whenever possible.

If I'm not wrong the 1st version of your game doesn't support Retina Display. If so, I guess it will be much easier to port that version to v0.99.5-rc0 than the version that supports RetinaDisplay "manually".

Since everything is in Points in v0.99.5-rc0, it should be relatively easy to add retina display support to an SD-only game.

In case you decide to use the "pixels" way, I think that this might work:
```
[director enableRetinaDisplay:YES];
__ccContentScaleFactor = 1;
```
Posted 1 year ago #
SDKTutor
Member

I have installed the templates by doing:
cd ........ then
sudo .........

I am able to create a new project, but when I build, I get 26000 errors and about 1600 warnings...... do you know what I am doing wrong? Everything seems right. It says that frameworks don't exist and can't find them. Have you experienced this before?

Posted 1 year ago #
Benihana
Member

I get 26000 errors and about 1600 warnings

What is your header search path? What version of Xcode are you using? Did it work prior to "installing the templates?" Can you locate the cocos folder on your computer?

You've got to give us SOMETHING.

Posted 1 year ago #
SDKTutor
Member

My version of xcode is 3.2.4. The header search path is blank. .99.4 still works. Also, I removed the .99.5 folder that it created and then reinstalled, then once it got finished, it said everything was a success and then it adds that the templates have already been installed. I'm not sure what's going on there.

Posted 1 year ago #
sabshire
Member

@SDKTutor, a lot changed from .99.4 to .99.5... @shogun had over 8000 errors on the first compile...

Posted 1 year ago #
SDKTutor
Member

@sabshire , I know that a lot changed but I want to know why mine won't compile correctly and others do.

Posted 1 year ago #
Shogan
Member

@SDKTutor, are you using any extra frameworks in addition to the standard ones? I was using OF so had to add those extras, but sometimes I have had issues where importing resources/frameworks doesn't work perfectly with xCode (I am also on 3.2.4). If I am still getting tons of errors like that, what I try do is remove the frameworks/resources, go into my app's directory and ensure there are none hanging around there any more (i.e. its clean) then add them all back in again, ensuring I copy in. Also try to a clean all targets from the build menu and then recompile...

The bulk of my errors came from the fact that I hadn't set up my OF dependencies correctly from the fresh project.

How is everyone's performance looking so far on this version? I have been trying out my build on my iPhone 3G this morning and I definitely seem to be getting lower FPS compared to 0.99.4. Game is hovering around 34 - 44 FPS whereas at the point I am testing I used to get 60 FPS (sometimes dipping to 52 or so). I'm not saying its the new version, as there may be one or two defines I changed in one of the header files in 99.4 (set to 0 instead of 1 for example) that I missed last night, so I'll definitely check that tonight, but otherwise I would be keen to see how everyone's performance figures are looking.

Posted 1 year ago #
XyrisKenn2
Member

Congrats Riq and the team. You're updating Cocos2D faster than I'm completing SteamPunk Hockey changes! ;P
Can't wait to get into it this evening.

Posted 1 year ago #
limtc
Member

I tried compile the standard cocos2D iOS project.

I got 16 errors, 7644 warnings. I am using Xcode 3.2.5.

Is this version ready to be used yet?

Posted 1 year ago #
hactar
Member

For those of you having troubles and not knowing what to do, my mini howto on upgrading from 0.99.3 to 0.99.5 may be of use to you:

http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/10610

Posted 1 year ago #
Shogan
Member

For those of you having troubles and not knowing what to do, my mini howto on upgrading from 0.99.3 to 0.99.5 may be of use to you:

http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/10610

Agreed, I found your mini guide quite useful (where I first saw that CCLabel had changed to CCLabelTTF). I also still need to sort out all my CCSpriteSheet's (deprecated in new version).

Posted 1 year ago #
abitofcode
Moderator
Has anyone had any issues building the documentation for the latest version or is it just me? (I have just moved to a new laptop so chances are I've messed up my Doxygen install).

edit: oops missed the error. Getting about 400+ of these;
```
error: problems opening map file /Users/abitofcode/Documents/cocos2d/cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5-rc0/build/cocos2d-ios.build/Debug-iphoneos/cocos2d-documentation.build/doxygen_output/html/_c_c_block_support_8h__incl.map for inclusion in the docs!
```
Posted 1 year ago #
riq
Key Master

Hey guys, if you are having errors compiling cocos2d, please read the Release Notes:
http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/wiki/doku.php/release_notes:0_99_5

If you have followed the v0.99.5 RelNotes and you are still have problems, then post the errors that you are having, which Xcode version you are using, the Base SDK that you are using, device or simulator, which iOS deploy target.

Posted 1 year ago #
MikeSz
Member

8461 erros and crashing XCode on the first try ;) - copied&replaced all the cocos files in cocos2d directory and recompiled. hmmmmm I have #import cocos2d in prefix file, so maybe this is the reason

EDIT: yeah, that's the reason... removing other #import cocos lines drops number of errors down to... 0 ! wonder if it will work though ;)

EDIT2: WORKS. that was the fastest migration in my "cocos2d-career" ;)

Posted 1 year ago #
limtc
Member

Downloaded.

Tested cocos2d-mac project, works. Open cocos2d-ios project, set base SDK to 4.2, compile, got 3822 warnings and 7 errors:

/Users/limtc/Downloads/cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5-rc0/tests/PerformanceTests/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest.m:8:0 /Users/limtc/Downloads/cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5-rc0/tests/PerformanceTests/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest.m:8:2: error: #error CC_ENABLE_PROFILERS must be enabled. Edit ccConfig.h

/Users/limtc/Downloads/cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5-rc0/tests/PerformanceTests/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest.m:219:0 /Users/limtc/Downloads/cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5-rc0/tests/PerformanceTests/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest.m:219: error: 'CCProfiler' undeclared (first use in this function)

/Users/limtc/Downloads/cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5-rc0/tests/PerformanceTests/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest.m:230:0 /Users/limtc/Downloads/cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5-rc0/tests/PerformanceTests/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest.m:230: error: 'CCProfiler' undeclared (first use in this function)

/Users/limtc/Downloads/cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5-rc0/tests/PerformanceTests/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest.m:273:0 /Users/limtc/Downloads/cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5-rc0/tests/PerformanceTests/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest.m:273: error: implicit declaration of function 'CCProfilingBeginTimingBlock'

/Users/limtc/Downloads/cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5-rc0/tests/PerformanceTests/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest.m:281:0 /Users/limtc/Downloads/cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5-rc0/tests/PerformanceTests/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest.m:281: error: implicit declaration of function 'CCProfilingEndTimingBlock'

/Users/limtc/Downloads/cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5-rc0/tests/PerformanceTests/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest.m:344:0 /Users/limtc/Downloads/cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5-rc0/tests/PerformanceTests/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest.m:344: error: 'CCProfiler' undeclared (first use in this function)

/Users/limtc/Downloads/cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5-rc0/tests/PerformanceTests/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest.m:355:0 /Users/limtc/Downloads/cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5-rc0/tests/PerformanceTests/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest/PerformanceNodeChildrenTest.m:355: error: 'CCProfiler' undeclared (first use in this function)

Posted 1 year ago #
cybergreg
Member
My migration went fine, I was using beta 3 already but I now have this odd problem that I can not reproduce in the template so clearly I'm doing something wrong...

When I use either:
```
[director enableRetinaDisplay:YES];
OR
[director setContentScaleFactor:2.0f];
```
My FPS drops to 30 in the iPhone 4 simulator but on the iPhone simulator its 60FPS. I've searched my code and I'm not setting the display interval anywhere but in my app delegate and its using the default of 1/60.0.

Very odd... once I get it straightened out I'll post back, otherwise the release candidate is working fine.
thanks @Riq - awesome!

Cg
Posted 1 year ago #
MikeSz
Member

@ cybergreg

Simulator has a tendency to go down to exactly 30 FPS if it cannot handle 60 FPS. dunno why, but that's the way it works

@ Riq - yes, it is awesome ! I hope to test Retina capabilities tomorrow

Posted 1 year ago #
bazcocos
Member

@limtc - afaik, thats a known issue. Just skip the PerformanceTest example, its the only one affected.

Posted 1 year ago #
cybergreg
Member

@MikeSz - odd, I just double checked and it does not do that with 0.99.5 beta 3... however I just loaded the build on my iPhone 4 and it IS running at 60FPS.

Thanks @MikeSz - should have tested it on my device before posting :-]

Posted 1 year ago #
MikeSz
Member

np, we have same problems. we have a check in our game that tests wether we deal with older or newer device (by newer I mean everything from 3 GS), and guess what ? to keep framerates high in simulator we treat is as a "slow" device ;) so lots of effects are just disabled there, 30 fps drop is not fun to work with ;)

Posted 1 year ago #

riq
Key Master

@cybergreg:

// Yes, use this line
[director enableRetinaDisplay:YES];

// DON'T use this code since it might  not work as expected on SD devices with iOS 4.0.
[director setContentScaleFactor:2.0f];

Posted 1 year ago #

zenkimoto
Member

@riq

Great work! Thanks!!

Posted 1 year ago #
mrTortex
Member

One question :) I've grabbed this release, did a forced install of the new templates (worked fine) and can make a Chipmunk project which compiles perfectly.

However, and this is because I'm paranoid. How do I know I've got the latest version? Is it shown in a header file anywhere? :)

Thanks for this release too, I've been away for a few weeks doing some freelance Flash work but am back now with games to make :)

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