Its possible to save ENTIRE Director State (actions, sprites on screen, etc)?

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Its possible to save ENTIRE Director State (actions, sprites on screen, etc)?

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Started 1 year ago by gaminghorror
Latest reply from me4502

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doenitz
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Hello to everyone!!!

I just want to know if its even possible, to save the ENTIRE director state, with actions being executed, sprites position in screen, etc, in a more "automagically" way...

I know how to use UserDefaults, and NSCoding (in fact, im using those for user options already)
But what i would be needing, is a way to save everything (specially things that are more game related, instead of user related, as i mention before)

Basically, what i would like, its to recover game state, as if was never terminated (same thing happens when in Iphone 4, you change to another app, and then return to yours, just to see nothing happened, and the director was just paused and happily waiting for user :P)

Thanks to everyone who reads my post! and greetings to the Cocos community!

Posted 1 year ago #
wololo
Member

I realize this was posted 9 months ago, but was wondering if there is any way to accomplish this? I have a bunch of enemies that are moved on the screen (they are all in a CCSpriteBatchNode), and when the application is quit, I want to save all their positions on the screen.

I know how to save, but I'm wondering if there's an easier way to accomplish this besides manually storing the following: The sprite, which action it's currently on, and its location on the screen.

Posted 9 months ago #
Benihana
Member

You are referring to NSCoding, which will make this trivial. It was planned for 1.0, but got pushed back. I'm not sure what priority it is, so it could be anywhere from a month to a year away. I definitely wouldn't wait for it, though there isn't a really good alternative.

http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/wiki/doku.php/roadmap

Posted 9 months ago #
wololo
Member

Aha! Thanks--Should've looked more closer at that I guess. Just wanted to know if there was something already built-in to take care of that.

Posted 9 months ago #
riq
Key Master

As @Benihana said, it is in the roadmap. Hopefully it will be included in 1.1. or 1.2

Posted 9 months ago #
Martin
Member

@wololo: check out the thread I started here: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/15412
There is some info in it about saving gamestate etc..

Posted 9 months ago #
me4502
Member

@riq

Has any progress on that been made?

Posted 7 months ago #

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