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How to make askew slope image(b2body) in Box2d?

I am new in Box2d and learning myself. I am learning Box2d from here http://www.box2d.org/manual.html#_Toc258082972 I want to make a body and want to give b2body a angle so that it will look like ...
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Calling CCRepeaForever on CCLabelTTF Makes Label Not Show Up

I have a CCLabelTTF in the top right hand corner of the view. -(void)scrollScoreLabelAndMonkey{ scoreLabel = [CCLabelTTF labelWithString:@"0000" fontName:@"Marker Felt" fontSize:30 ]; ...
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Cocos 2d move CCsprite in array of points [closed]

I need a CCsprite to move to the points in my array those points will form a circle.I know to move CCsprite but my app crashes when i make it to move in array of points. Help me where i am making ...
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Set texture of a LHSprite that is loaded from LevelHelper

How do i set the image/texture of an LHSprite that is loaded into xCode using levelHelper & spriteHelper? I am using sprite sheets. So i tried to load the image the old fashioned way using ...
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What to choose? [closed]

I am so stuck on what to choose, I want to create a game like vector (run and jump game with multiple levels) From what I've read i may use: Kobold2D Cocos2D w/ Box2D (which involves learning a bit ...
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How to implement enemies similar to Monster shooter game in cocos2d? [duplicate]

We are recently creating game with cocos2d API. This game is similar to Monster shooter game for iOS and android. Following is the link to above game : http://game-lion.net/monstershooter/ In this ...
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opengles display human face in iphone and animate it?

I need to make a human 2D face to 3D face. I used this link to load an ".obj" file and map the textures. This example is only for cube and pyramid. I loaded a human face ".obj" file. This loads the ...
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iOS cocos2d - sprite gets stuck in collision detection

I'm developing a top down game in cocos2d and I have collision code that checks collisions between enemies and the player so that they don't go through each other. The code seems to work but the ...
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Cocos3d-iOS: Need ideas for approaching a 3d app development

I am trying to develop a Cocos3d application, not a fame. This application is exactly same as flash view available in this link-> http://www.amfam.com/learning-center/my-home/interactive-home.asp and ...
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3d transformation of game world keeping gameplay 2d - COCOS2D 2.0

Using: COCOS2D + iOS. I want to rotate the game world, may be loading another .tmx file for another dimensions when user want to switch dimension. the effect what I am looking for is something like ...
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CCSprite as an iVar

So I built my first game app, and it was a lot of fun. I'm really trying to expand on some of the ideas, but I'm running in to some serious variable scope issue. What I want to do is encapsulate a ...
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Integrating game center into cocos2d

I have a Cocos 2d game in which I want to have achievements and a leader-board. What are the steps I would need to take? Thanks P.S All of the tutorials I have found are outdated. So please write ...
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Alternatives to NSMutableArray for storing 2D grid - iOS Cocos2d

I'm creating a grid-based iOS game using Cocos2d. Currently the grid is stored in an NSMutableArray that contains other NSMutableArrays (the latter are rows in the grid). This works ok and performance ...
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How to deal with Character body parts from Design to Cocos2d

I'm trying to figure out the pattern the game developers use together with game designers: See the picture below with the independent parts: Questions: 1) Should I create different image parts ...
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How to develop a water fluid dynamics application? [closed]

I want to develop a Fluid Water Application on IOS which I can drop some colors and mix them. In which framework I can get more support? Which one is better?
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What is technical specs for iOS platform for a game?

I would like to know when a contractor ask you for a technical specs for iOS platform of a game, what's the description that you should give back to him?
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Wait till all CCActions have completed

I am developing a simple cocos2d game in which I want to animate two CCSprites simultaneously, and for this purpose I simply set CCActions on respective `CCSprite's as follows. [first ...
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Copies of GameScene created when called additional times

UPDATE: It no longer crashes after removing [self removeAllChildrenWithCleanup:YES]; from onExit. The artifacts still remain though. UPDATE 2: Found my problems. See my answer below. I have a game ...
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Directional Lights

I'm working on a game idea (2D) that needs directional lights. Basically I want to add light sources that can be moved and the light rays interact with the other bodies on the scene. What I'm doing ...
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How to make a Sprite using CoreGraphics iOS - Cocos2d-iPhone

I'm trying to make a sprite that uses the graphics that are made with core graphics. I cant seem to find anything to explain how to make shapes using core graphics to create a sprite to use in ...
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Admob banner not getting remove from superview

I am developing one 2d game using cocos2d framework, in this game i am using admob for advertising, in some classes not in all classes but admob banner is visible in every class and after some time ...
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OOP in cocos2d for ios

I have been pulling my hair out trying to make an object in cocos 2d that is a CCSprite (with an image) and a CCLabelBMFont. I tried making a CCNode object and I tried making a custom CCSprite object ...
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Unit Testing with Cocos2D

How to implement Unit Testing with Cocos2D framework? What are the good practices? Is there any testing framework like JUnit Framework at Eclipse for Android?
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limiting a sprites movement after a mouseJoint is released

I have created a weldJoint between two sprites and I also created a method (spritePositionRelease) that returns the exact position of a sprite when a mouseJoint is released. I want to track the ...
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How to use generic level editors with my arbitary code?

I have a game, breakout clone. It has a Block class that contains CCSprite as a property. Usually I made levels by manually setting those blocks to positions. Here comes the question, how do I use ...
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How change the size of sprite in cocos2d?

I want to change the scale of sprite like a paper in 'Paper Toss' game. 'Paper Toss' is the game is available on the App store. I want to make a sprite like a paper and change the scale of sprite ...
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Using pixel art on small high resolution screens

I'm making a game and I would like to utilize pixel art as my style. But I faced a problem, modern displays on my target platform (iOS) have extremely high resolution. So if my artist makes me some ...
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How to store level information on iOS

Let's imagine I have a breakout game. I make a level like this: For columns < max columns For rows < max rows Create sprite from file, put it on some position based on ...
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Good open source iOS games? [closed]

I would like to see how things are done in modern iOS games, I am especially interested in Cocos2D games. I need a game that will compile (warnings are ok) and since most of the project I have seen ...
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Touch area double sized on newer device

I am developing a universal puzzle game, in which I have used separate image for iPhone4 and for iPhone3, iPhone4 image is double in size of iPhone3 image. My issue is for iPhone4, touch area of image ...
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Rolling a 3d die in cocos2d

How can I have a 6 sided die in my cocos2d game and when the device is shaked the die rolls and shows a number? I would also use UIKit if it was necessary.
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Touching a CGRect

In my cocos2d app I am trying to determine when a CCSprite is touched Here is what I have: -(BOOL)ccTouchBegan:(UITouch *)touch withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{ NSMutableArray *targetsToDelete = ...
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Falling images that can be pressed

In my cocos2d app I am trying to make images fall from the top of the screen and detect when they are pressed. I am having a hard time. Can anyone help me achieve this? Thanks.
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Keeping the CCSprite on the screen

In my cocos2d app I have a CCSprite moving on the screen but it moves off the screen. How can I prevent the CCSprite from moving off the screen? Thanks
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Cocos2D: Upgrading from OpenGL ES 1.1 to 2.0

I have recently starting upgrading my ios game to the latest Cocos2D (2.0 rc), and I am having some difficulties upgrading my texture generation code to OpenGL 2.0. In the old version I generated ...
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Carousel level selector

In my cocos2d game I need the user to select a menu so I was hoping that they could use a carousel (like the one in ski on neon or sonic racing for the iPad). I realized that there is nothing for this ...
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Xcode workspace with Unity3D as a sub-project?

Let's say we're developing a 2D game with Cocos2d-iPhone and UIKit and CoreAnimation. But we're also considering leveraging the 3D capabilities of Unity 3D. Is it possible that we add the ...
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How to simulate a water splash effect?

I need to achieve the effect of a ball falling down into a pool then splashing in the water. At first, I made a sensor to detect the collision between the ball and the water and then show the sprite ...
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How To show document directory save image in thumbnail in cocos2d class [closed]

I have just implemented multiple photo selection from iphone photo library and i am saving all selected photo in document directory every time as a array, now i want to show all saved images in my ...
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How to load big size CCTMXTiledMap in cocos2d?

I am try to design a cocos2d game that with a big world. The wolrd tiled map is very big, maybe 20 ipad screen sizes. I want to know how to load CCTMXTiledMap into screen? If I directly add it to ...
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Adding gesture recognizer (or dragging) to CCSprite

I'm trying to allow a CCSprite to be dragged across the screen. I've succeeded so far by doing it on a Layer level (from this tutorial). However, this only allows ONE sprite to be dragged at a time as ...
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CCSprite x and y comparison

I have 2 CCSprites and I want to tell if their x and y are equal I tried this: if(sam.position.x == tom.position.x && sam.position.y == tom.position.y){ NSLog(@"Hooray!"); } Although I do ...
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Should iOS games use a Timer?

No matter what frameworks we use -- Core Graphics, Cocos2D, OpenGL ES -- to write games, should a timer be used (for games that has animation even when a user doesn't do any input, such as after ...
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How do I break an image into 6 or 8 pieces of different shapes?

I am working on puzzle game, where the player can select an image from iPhone photo gallery. The selected image will save in puzzle page and after 3 second wait the selected image will be broken into ...
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How to achieve uniform speed of movement on a bezier curve?

I'm trying to move an image along Bezier curve. This is how I do it: - (void)startFly { [self runAction:[CCSequence actions: [CCBezierBy actionWithDuration:timeFlying bezier:[self ...
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How to use Kobold2D/Cocos2D to create a turn-based iOS 5 Game Center game?

I've searched for information on this, but cannot find it, is this not something you can do yet with Kobold2D/Cocos2D? or are there options I've missed?
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Cocos2D - How to move sprite on the X axis, using the accelerometer

I'm trying to make a vertical shooter, using Cocos2D and a few tutorials. Unfortunately, most tutorials only show how to make an horizontal shooter. Still, I tried to adapt the code from a horizontal ...
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Include Box2D libraries to a cocos2d project (iOS)

I have a problem including box2D to my cocos2d project. I've tried different ways to do it with no success. This is what I've done: I downloaded Box2D (Box2D_v2.2.1) to my project directory. Dragged ...
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Making filled circles in cocos2d

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 ...
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Efficient Bullet Firing Class

I've been struggling with this for a while. I have been trying to create a bullet pool class for a game I have made that doesn't cause a significant fps drop. I have tried creating a bullet pool ...

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