cocos2d for iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad and Mac v0.99.5-beta2 released :-)

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cocos2d for iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad and Mac v0.99.5-beta2 released :-)

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Started 1 year ago by riq
Latest reply from finder39

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riq
Key Master

Hi,

I'm happy to announce that v0.99.5-beta2 is available for download:
- http://cocos2d-iphone.googlecode.com/files/cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5-beta2.tar.gz

Highlights:
- Mac support :-)

I've been working hard during the last 2 weeks to make cocos2d for Mac a reality :), but I would like to give an special thanks @manucorporat for porting CCLabelTTF class and @steve-oldmeadow for porting CocosDenshion. Thanks!

"cocos2d for Mac" means that you can port your cocos2d / CocosDenshion game from iPhone to Mac with minimal changes.
For example, several tests were ported to Mac, and if you look at the source code, you will notice 2 important changes:
- How to initialize the director / opengl view
- How to handle the events: mouse/keyboard instead of touches/accelerometer

The rest is the same.

(...but if your game uses UIKit components, then that is a different story...)

Mac port status::
- So far it seems that it is working OK, it is stable.
- Several tests were ported to Mac and they are working as expected. I've ported Sapus Tongue to Mac, and it also works as expected. More details here
- But there still a few things to fix /add:
-- Support garbage collection
-- Support Fullscreen
-- Support Touches
-- Support a runtime older than 10.6... like 10.5 or 10.4

Incompatibilities:
- v0.99.5-beta2 contains MANY LITTLE API changes. Basically some classes were renamed.
eg: CCXXXTransition -> CCTransitionXXX.

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

Full Changelog:
http://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-iphone/blob/release-0.99.5-beta2/CHANGELOG

I would appreciate if you could test it with your game and report any issue that you might find.
And if you port your game to Mac, please, let us know! Thanks.

Posted 1 year ago #
Ben Kraus
Member

Updated what code I needed to. I get 13 errors -

"_OBJC_CLASS_$_CCNode", referenced from:
"_OBJC_CLASS_$_CCLabelTTF", referenced from:
"_OBJC_CLASS_$_EAGLView", referenced from:
"_OBJC_CLASS_$_CCLayer", referenced from:
"_OBJC_CLASS_$_CCSprite", referenced from:
"_OBJC_CLASS_$_CCTransitionFade", referenced from:
"_OBJC_CLASS_$_CCFadeIn", referenced from:
"_OBJC_CLASS_$_CCScene", referenced from:
"_OBJC_METACLASS_$_CCSprite", referenced from:
"_OBJC_METACLASS_$_CCNode", referenced from:
"_OBJC_METACLASS_$_CCLayer", referenced from:
"_OBJC_CLASS_$_CCDirector", referenced from:
"_OBJC_CLASS_$_CCTexture2D", referenced from:

The references just list some of my classes. Ideas?

Posted 1 year ago #
manucorporat
Member

First cocos2d-mac performance test:
Nvidia Geforce GT 330M
27000 sprites 60FPS

http://twitpic.com/2k2mrv
http://twitter.com/manucorporat/status/22656504593

Posted 1 year ago #
chrisco
Member

Wow. I thought you put too many zeroes until I saw the picture. That's insane.

Posted 1 year ago #
manucorporat
Member

yes, it's insane.
Some calculations:

27000 sprites of 32x32
=
32^2*27000 pixels = 27648000 pixels (27,6 Mpx) running at 60FPS

Posted 1 year ago #
Ben Kraus
Member

Never mind - just had to re-link the library.

Posted 1 year ago #
MikeSz
Member

NICE ! Was waiting for a new cocos2d release :)

Wish the changes to the spritesheet / spriteframcache were added in it as well, but that's just a few methods to add (those to remove spriteframes from plist file)

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As a side note:

What can you do with a Mac version of the game ? What are possible market places ? Steam ?

Posted 1 year ago #
riq
Key Master

@MikeSz: The new methods to spriteframecache were not added. The issue is still open, but it will be part of the next release.

Regarding Mac, yes, you can distribute them via Steam. The guys from PopGames (Plant vs. Zombies) also distribute their games through their webpage. (eg: http://www.popcap.com/games/pvz/?icid=pvz_goty_interstitial_mac ).

If you are developing an iOS polished game, it might have sense to have an ultra-polished Mac version. You can offer it for free, or you can charge it. You could add an ad that says "Hey, buy the iPad / iPhone version from here". You can also submit your Mac game to the Apple page: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/

And if you don't want to develop a Mac game, then you could use cocos2d for Mac as a development tool. Think of it as a way to develop / prototype your games in a faster way. I have not done a scientific test, but while I was developing/debugging Sapus Tongue for Mac I felt that everything was faster (startup time, debugging time, in general the system was more responsive). So I'll develop/debug the next features of Sapus Tonguel for Mac first, and once they are finished I'll port them to iOS.

Posted 1 year ago #
jd
Member

riq and contributors - great job on the release. The autorotate works great (tested on ipad last night) and the ability to easily port apps to the mac opens up a huge realm of possibilities.

Posted 1 year ago #
indy2005
Member

Hi,

It will be great to build tools with. i.e. to build level building / physics building tools which can then export XML for iPhone development.

Regards

i

Posted 1 year ago #
riq
Key Master

@indy2005: yes it is. As I have mentioned in previous posts, I'm working on a "cocos2d world editor".

Posted 1 year ago #
jptsetung
Member

The ability to port our cocos2D games on MacOS is a great addition, what a good job you've done again. Riq, is the ability to support the retina display smoothly is on your priorities list ( http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/8511 ) ?

Posted 1 year ago #
MikeSz
Member

thanks for the hints riq :)

do you have any information on sales of Mac specific games ? (exclusive for Mac that is, not like PvZ which is on PC as well)

Posted 1 year ago #
GhostDog
Member

No fix for multiple touches (issue 959 iirc)? That's seems to be a big one. Anyone else solve this one? Setting multi touch enabled in the gl view does not fix the issue.

Posted 1 year ago #
indy2005
Member

@Riq - I assume this will be a commercial product? How will it line up to LevelSVG and products like Mekanimo?

Posted 1 year ago #
riq
Key Master

@jptsetung:
Retina-Display is on the high priority list. I'm still thinking about how to support it. @matt-rix posted an article regarding it. I'm still not sure whether or not to use that techinique.

@mikeSz:
No, I don't have info about Mac sales.

@GhostDog:
Issue 959 will be fixed in v0.99.5. If you happen to find how to fix it, could you attach the patch on the issue ? Thanks.

Posted 1 year ago #
finder39
Member

makes me happy i learned cocos2d, now i can do mac development as well :)

Posted 1 year ago #
finder39
Member

@riq what OS X version is this good for? 10.5 and up?

Posted 1 year ago #
slycrel
Member

In case you hadn't seen it, it looks like the second test in renderTexture isn't working properly, the one that says "Testing issue #937".

Fantastic job Riq! This is great! I'll work on porting my test app now and let you know of any problems.

Posted 1 year ago #
finder39
Member

Also, how do get make things compile for the mac? i can't get a target for it or anything

Posted 1 year ago #

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