May 9, 2012
by Chris
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The following is a list of links and resources that should make finding your way around Cocos2d a little easier, it’s not a comprehensive list but hopefully you may find something useful. Beware of older code examples and tutorials when … Continue reading
April 30, 2012
by Chris
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Here’s a Category to return the percentage of a CCRendertexture that is transparent i.e what percentage of the pixels have an alpha value of zero. Question originally asked on cocos2d forum. I’ve thrown together a quick example project where a … Continue reading
January 18, 2012
by Chris
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The color picker was commented on a number of times during beta testing so we’ve decided to give it away It’s written in cocos2d and uses the CCControl approach suggested by YannickL on the forum. Color pickers can be fiddly … Continue reading
January 16, 2012
by Chris
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Sketchshare has had some fantastic feedback from Beta – many thanks to those of you who are helping out! we’re working through all your comments and hope that you’ll appreciate the results. We’ve had quite a bit of interest in … Continue reading
July 8, 2011
by Chris
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Writing the Irregular touch detection post brought to mind another Lingo/Flash workaround that makes use of Photoshop. The effect is a depth of field that can be adjusted between the foreground and background without having to apply any sort of … Continue reading
July 5, 2011
by Chris
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This is the first of 3 posts about handling hit tests in irregular shaped areas, we’ll provide the point to be tested with a touch and give the user some simple feedback via a label if they hit anything interesting. … Continue reading
July 2, 2011
by Chris
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A technique I used in Lingo *cough* has found its way into my mobile iOS development. It involves using Photoshop to create an array of data that the app can step through to determine a value for a given pixel. … Continue reading