cocos2d-x v3.2-alpha0 Release Notes

cocos2d-x v3.2-alpha0 Release Notes

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• cocos2d-x v3.2-alpha0 Release Notes
• Misc Information
• Requirements
  • Runtime Requirements
  • Compiler Requirements
  • How to run tests
    • Mac OSX & iOS
    • Android
    • Windows
    • Linux
  • How to start a new game
• Highlights of v3.2 alpha0
• Features in detail
  • Animation3D
    • fbx-conv usage
    • Sample code
  • captureScreen

Misc Information

• Download: http://cdn.cocos2d-x.org/cocos2d-x-3.2alpha0.zip
• Full Changelog: https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x/blob/cocos2d-x-3.2alpha0/CHANGELOG
• API Reference: http://www.cocos2d-x.org/reference/native-cpp/V3.0/index.html
• v3.0 Release Notes can be found here: v3.0 Release Notes

Requirements

Runtime Requirements

• Android 2.3 or newer
• iOS 5.0 or newer
• OS X 10.7 or newer
• Windows 7 or newer
• Windows Phone 8 or newer
• Linux Ubuntu 12.04 or newer
• Browsers via Emscripten N/A for the moment

Compiler Requirements

• Xcode 4.6 or newer for iOS or Mac
• gcc 4.7 or newer for Linux
• gcc 4.7 and ndk-r9 or newer for Android
• Visual Studio 2012 or newer for Windows (win32)
• Visual Studio 2012 or newer for Windows Phone 8

How to run tests

Mac OSX & iOS

• Enter cocos2d-x/build folder, open cocos2d_test.xcodeproj
• Select iOS or OS X target in scheme toolbar
• Click run button

Android

You can run the samples...

Using command line:

$ cd cocos2d-x
$ ./setup.py
$ cd build
$ ./android-build.py cpp-empty-test -p 10
$ adb install cocos2d-x/tests/cpp-empty-test/proj.android/bin/CppEmptyTest-debug.apk

Then click item on Android device to run tests. Available value of -p is the API level, cocos2d-x supports from level 10.

Using Eclipse:

$ cd cocos2d-x
$ ./setup.py
$ cd build
$ ./android-build.py cpp-empty-test -p 10

Then

• Import cocos2d-x Android project into Eclipse, the path used to import is cocos/2d/platform/android
• Import cpp-empty-test Android project into Eclipse, the path used to import is tests/cpp-empty-test/proj.android
• Build cpp-empty-test Android project and run

Windows

• Enter cocos2d-x/build, and open cocos2d-win32.vs2012.sln
• Select cpp-empty-test as running target
• Click run button

Linux

$ cd cocos2d-x/build
$ ./install-deps-linux.sh
$ cd ../..

Then

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ../cocos2d-x
$ make -j4

Run

$ cd bin/cpp-empty-test
$ ./cpp-empty-test

How to start a new game

Please refer to this document: ReadMe

Highlights of v3.2 alpha0

• Animation3D/Animate3d, new nodes for 3d animation. lua-binding and WP8 is not supported now.
• Updated libcurl.a to use OpenSSL v1.0.1h, news for it
• Added utils::captureScreen to take screeshot

Features in detail

Animation3D

Animation3D is skeletal animation in 3D Game. It allows the artist animate a 3D model using bone in 3D modeling tools. Then export the model file and use it in the game.

Work flow

• Artist produce 3D models in modeling tools and then export it to FBX file
• Use fbx-conv convert FBX file to c3t file
• Load c3t file in the game

Note

• The API may change in final version
• binary format of c3t will be added in final version
• the bones in the FBX file should not be more than 50.

fbx-conv usage

• windows

cd COCOS2DX_ROOT/tools/fbx-convert/win32
fbx-conv FBXFile

• mac os x

cd COCOS2DX_ROOT/tools/fbx-convert/mac
./fbx-conv FBXFile

Sample code

//load Sprite3D
auto sprite = Sprite3D::create("girl.c3t");
addChild(sprite);
sprite->setPosition(Vec2( 0, 0));

//load animation and play it
auto animation = Animation3D::getOrCreate("girl.c3t");
if (animation)
{
   auto animate = Animate3D::create(animation);
   sprite->runAction(RepeatForever::create(animate));       
}

Full sample please refer to Sprite3D test.

captureScreen

Please refer to here for usage.