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How can you make filled-in circles in cocos2d? I understand you have to create a new method, but I don't really understand how it works/how to do it. Could someone please provide maybe an example or tell me how to go about achieving this? Also, I need to create about 24 filled-in circles, would this cause lags of some sort? Thanks!

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I am not sure what do you mean by "I understand you have to create a new method, but I don't really understand how it works/how to do it." but I can tell you how to create a filled circle in cocos2d.

All you need is an image of circle of any color that you want or a white one if you want to change the color of the circle in your game.

With these circles as sprites in the game, the lags should not occur as I have a game that has 70-80 sprites in a game(A Cards game) and it never lagged even when i played pretty complicated animation in the game.

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Thanks for the sprite idea. I add the circles to the screen in a for loop however, using the ccDrawCircle function inside the draw method. How can I add the 24 circles onto the screen fast and easily? – Seany242 Feb 26 '12 at 15:40
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@Seany242 Use sprites, it's going to be faster and easier than drawing filled circles with only OpenGL (eg. without a sprite texture). – bummzack Feb 27 '12 at 7:55
Sorry for the late reply, but @bummzack is right, using a sprite is simple and will be fasted due to cocos2d texture cache. – robin Feb 27 '12 at 8:04
how would i change the color of the circle during the game if I import a white sprite? – Seany242 Feb 29 '12 at 23:48
Set the tint color of the image, that should take care of it. – robin Mar 1 '12 at 1:23

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