cocos2d for iPhone

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

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   Osiris
   Member

   Getting very frustrated. I'm trying to be a really good Noobie. Im reading every freeking manual I can find...

   I'm currently looking at Game Demo Tutorial #3 at http://morethanmachine.com/macdev/?tag=game-demo-tutorial-series
   I'm sure its a good demo, but where do we find good documentation on what appear to be basic concepts?

   for Example, the following in GameScene.m I am beginning to understand the general layout of methods and the objectiveness of it all, but in the following example:

   space = cpSpaceNew();
   
   cpSpaceResizeStaticHash(space, 400.0f, 40);
   cpSpaceResizeActiveHash(space, 100, 600);

   What resource would one turn to to know that these chipmunk functions are necessary or what they do?

   I wouldnt even know that i'm supposed to insert such commands into my code.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Korki696
   Member

   Hey Osiris,
   Chipmunk is kinda of seperate from cocos2d. the website for chipmunk is http://www.slembcke.net On there they have documentation for chipmunk as well as a forum. You can also look inside the cocos2d Xcode project for chipmunk demonstrations.
   -Lars

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Osiris
   Member

   but what about knowing when to and when not to insert any particular object call in a function? For every one I finally "get", I run in to 10 more that I don't have a clue about, why they are needed, where their documentation is or what other clauses or features are available.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Osiris
   Member

   Korki - thanks BTW, looking now.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   sunsu
   Member

   Also, here's the API ref for cocos2d 0.8rc:
   http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/api-ref/0.8-rc/

   Posted 2 years ago #
6. 

   Osiris
   Member

   I have seen the API Ref. I'm afraid I didnt grow up as a C programmer so typically, those references go right over my head.

   What they typically do not tell you is when it is appropriate to use one class vs another and how to put structures together using the various API calls. I know this is the job of the examples, but typically, these examples are only setup to show you very specific things.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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