Hi, You all know how to add an Image to a sprite. But what if we need to change the image of the same sprite? How to do that? Use the following line of code to change the image of a sprite which already initialized with a sprite. [sampleSprite setTexture:[[CCTextureCache sharedTextureCache] addImage:@”newImage.png”]]; where sampleSprite is… Read More »
Hi, On certain occasions you may need to flip the sprite you are using in your application. There are two ways to flip a sprite. Let’s see how this can be done along X-direction Method:1 mySprite.flipX = 180; where mySprite is the name of your sprite you want to flip. Method:2 CCFlipX *flipOnX = [CCFlipX… Read More »
Hi, In one of our previous post we have discussed how to animate sprite sheet in cocos2D. In some cases you may need to stop the sprite sheet animation abruptly. How to do that? Here the way to do that. Use the following. [spriteName stopAction:spriteNameAction]; where spriteName is the name of your sprite & spriteNameAction… Read More »
Hi, Suppose you have a sprite sheet of the desired animation you want. But how will you use that sprite sheet animation in your program using cocos2D? That’s simple. See the following code first. //Initializing a CCSpriteBatchNode with our sprite sheet image CCSpriteBatchNode *newSpriteSheet = [CCSpriteBatchNode batchNodeWithFile:@”jumpingOver.png”]; //Adding the spriteSheet to the layer & setting… Read More »
Hi, While using Box2D , in many cases you may need to connect two bodies together. But the collision between them during motion is not what you preferred! So how can you prevent those bodies being connected in Box2D from collision? Use the line of code to prevent the collision. jointDef.collideConnected = false;
Hi, Suppose you want to copy a sprite image to another new sprite while using cocos2D. What you do? See the following code… Let oldSprite be your first sprite CCSprite *oldSprite = [CCSprite spriteWithFile:@”ImgOne.png”]; And newSprite be your second sprite CCSprite *newSprite = [CCSprite spriteWithTexture:[oldSprite texture]]; That’s it! Done! Now newSprite too contain ImgOne as… Read More »
Yet another animation api from cocos2D, check it out…… id move = [CCMoveTo actionWithDuration:1 position:ccp(200,250); CCEaseElasticIn *elasticIn = [CCEaseElasticIn actionWithAction:move period:2.0]; [my_sprite runAction:elasticIn ];
This code snippet deletes a substring from a original string.. /** initialize two strings **/ NSString *string = @”This is heaven”; NSString *part = @”heaven”; /** Get the range of the substring in the original string **/ NSRange range = [string rangeOfString:part]; /** Delete the substring from the original string **/ [string deleteCharactersInRange:range]; Please leave… Read More »
This simple code plays a music…….. [[SimpleAudioEngine sharedEngine] playBackgroundMusic:@”my_music.mp3″]; For stopping the music use this……. [[SimpleAudioEngine sharedEngine]stopBackgroundMusic]; To pause the music use this line of code….. [[SimpleAudioEngine sharedEngine] pauseBackgroundMusic];
Gear joints are one of the real specialities of Box2D. By creating gear joints between two bodies you can actually simulate a real world gear. For creating a gear joint you need two bodies connected by a revolute or prismatic joint. The below code creates two bodies in the shape of a circle which is… Read More »
Plist or property list are usually used for storing data in iPhone. They are normal XML files, you can open it in a texteditor to view it’s data. This sample code shows how to read data from the plist. Reading a plist will return an array.You can print out the array to view the results.… Read More »
Hi all …… You know iPhone doesnot have garbage collection like ANDROID. So it becomes the responsibility of the developer or programmer to release the resources and remove the unwanted textures from your memory. If you don’t remove the unused textures and other variables from your memory your application will exit after a while. You… Read More »
For an interactive game building using Box2D, collision detection of Box2D bodies is necessary. There is an easy way to implement collision detection in Box2D. For checking whether two bodies have collided with each other in Box2D while using it with cocos2D, then use the following lines of code where ever you want to check… Read More »
Sometimes unused textures may cause you memory leak! So you need to remove the unused textures. For removing unused textures, use the following line of code, where ever you want to remove unused textures. [[TextureMgr sharedTextureMgr] removeUnusedTextures]; 🙂
Hi, In certain situations you may need to remove all the forces you have applied on different bodies in your box2D world. Then what to do? Removing all the forces from the bodies in the box2D world is simple. Just use the single line of code. yourWorld->ClearForces(); Here yourWorld is your Box2D world. Simple, isn’t… Read More »
There may arise certain situations there you are using a number of @selector functions and want to stop all those selectors. In cocos2D there is an easy way to stop/unschedule all the selectors with a single line of code! Use this line of code where ever you want to unshedule all the selectors being activated.… Read More »
This code snippet helps you to open a webpage in Safari. Code uses openURL to load the webpage in the web browser. Write this function as an action to a button……… – ( IBAction ) loadWebPageInSafari : ( id ) sender { NSURL *my_URL = [NSURL URLWithString:[Your_URL stringValue]]; if ( [ [NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openURL :… Read More »
In Cocos2D in iPhone often you may be using spritesheets which amy cause memory leaks because they are unused textures in memory even when you go from one scene to other. So make sure to remove all those unwanted textures from memory to save memory. Copy this following code to dealloc function in your class… Read More »
You cal also animate CCMenu like other sprites to have some effect on your Menu. You can also place spritesheets in each MenuItem. -(void) setUpMenu { CCSprite *Home1 = [CCSprite spriteWithFile:@”Home1.png”]; CCSprite *Home2 = [CCSprite spriteWithFile:@”Home1.png”]; Home2.opacity = 100; CCSprite *Levels1 = [CCSprite spriteWithFile:@”levels2.png”]; CCSprite *Levels2 = [CCSprite spriteWithFile:@”levels2.png”]; Levels2.opacity = 100; CCSprite *Refresh1 =… Read More »
Follow these steps…. Select your particle system from the Particle Designer . The go to file-> save as “file.plist” Copy file.plist to your resources folder. Copy the following code to your Xcode.
You often may need scrolling backgrounds in your game or any other application. The following code helps you to add continuous backgrounds. Each sprite is added to the right of the current sprite which make them continuos. //Add more stripes, flip them, and position them next to their neighbour stripe. for (int i = 0;… Read More »
//Dynamically change the sprite image…… //my_sprite is a CCSprite already initialized with spriteWithFile. [[CCTextureCache sharedTextureCache] removeTexture:[self.my_sprite texture]; CCTexture2D *tex = [[CCTextureCache sharedTextureCache] addImage:@”new_image.jpg”]; [my_sprite setTexture:tex];
The CCRibbon class, together with touch input, can be used to create the line-drawing effects of popular games. Note: you can’t remove individual points from a CCRibbon. You can only remove the whole CCRibbon by removing it as child from its parent.
CCBitmapFontAtlas faster than CCLabel. Labels that update fast at the expense of more memory usage, like any other CCSprite,is the specialty of the CCBitmapFontAtlas class //Usage… CCBitmapFontAtlas scoreLabel = [CCBitmapFontAtlas bitmapFontAtlasWithString:@”0″ fntFile:@”bitmapfont.fnt”];
You can create endlessly looping animations this way. This code lets a node rotate forever like an endlessly spinning wheel: