cocos2d for iPhone

A fast, easy to use, free, and community supported 2D game engine

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   jowa44
   On Probation

   In my cocos2d iPhone application, I want to display a large image (3000 x 4000 px) which I frequently update. But on 1st, 2nd and 3rd gen devices, I can only load textures up to 1024 px width and on the iPhone 4 2048 px. Is there a way to split the texture up?
   Thanks in advance!

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   ivanovich
   Member

   I actually have the same problem and manually i'm using PS to crop the large images in 1000x1000 png's with 1px transparent margin to ensure that we don't have lines in runtime.

   I have a automatic "ACTION" in PS to do this i love to know if there is a better way

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   jowa44
   On Probation

   But I can't do this in PS because I want to display an image from my server that automatically updates.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   araker
   Moderator

   In that case you'll have to make use of the image processing libraries on your server to split the image into pieces. In PHP for instance you can use GD for that.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   abitofcode
   Moderator

   You're going to have to tile it (like google maps), it may also help reduce some of the load on the server.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   jowa44
   On Probation

   I think that's the way Apple uses Google maps. I think I'll try GD.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   abitofcode
   Moderator

   Session 104 Developing apps with scroll views from WWDC2010 has a nice summary of doing this sort of tiled approach in UIKit, accessible from developer.apple.com. A similar approach could be put together in cocos2d.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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