iOS is an operating system for mobile devices created by Apple Inc. It runs on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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How do I render .dae models?
I'm building a game for iOS. I'm quite new to OpenGL but what I want is to take a 3D model I have made in Google SketchUp and use it in my 3d game. The problem is I don't know how to proceed. I have ...
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Flash/Flex/Air and iOS
I'm just a little confused with all of the news recently regarding the cancellation of mobile flash, so was hoping for a little help. I've had a search through and can't find the answers to these ...
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Xcode on Hackintosh (under VM)
Should I be pessimistic about the iOS game development under VM? A virtualized environment will run on AMD (4-core 2.8 ghz Phenom II)/ATI/Linux/VMware host.
Not talking about any 3D engines, may ...
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Is it true that to test a game on the iPhone or iPad, we either need to pay $99 to join Apple Developer program, or jailbreak the iPad?
To test a program for iPhone or iPad, seems like the only way is to join the Apple Developer program and pay $99 per year? Can you also jailbreak the iPhone or iPad and be able to test it?
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iOS persistant storage with update function
im developing a game which has different levels and i need to store all levels and its elements (position, image, sounds,..) into a file/database. The levels will be updated so i need a function that ...
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Restricting joystick within a radius of center
I'm using Unity3d iOs and am using the example joysticks that came with one of the packages. It works fine but the area the joystick moves in is a rectangle which is unintuitive for my type of game. I ...
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Multiplayer game sdk for ios and android
I am working on a multiplayer game supporting Android and IOS.
For IOS Game-Center seems promising. But its IOS only.
OpenFeint could be a option, but now GREE has stopped supporting it.
Is there ...
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How to store an iOS game save file in multiple devices? (Without remote servers)
I've been developing an iOS game for iPhone. My game saves the progress as a couple of .plist documents in the device.
I have come to realize that when I install a game in my iPhone, this same game ...
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For a real-time PvP game, what network service would get the job done?
The game is between two players, real time, and has to be very synchronized - latency will certainly favor one player over the other.
It's built for iOS and Android and every touch on one end has to ...
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2D Physics in a networked game (iOS)?
I am researching the possibilities for a new iOS game. It's going to be a run-n-gun type platformer, and I'm looking into the possibility of co-op multiplayer.
The game itself wouldn't be very ...
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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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Are mobile devices a viable platform/market for “User-Generated Content”-based games?
I intend to do a lot of research into this, but I know this community has a knack for delivering hard-to-find gems of knowledge, so I figured I'd ask here first.
Preamble (My Situation)
I'm ...
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RTS game engine for iOS/iPhone
Anyone know any free or non-free RTS engine that can be used for iOS game development?
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in an ios open gl es 2 game - is it better to use a few large texture atlas or many small textures
I'm working on new game, this time moving to more 3d objects and open gl es 2. Previous (successful) game was open gl es 1 and mostly 2d. For es 2 I'm developing my own 3d engine.
My 3d artist ...
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iOS game integrated with Facebook - Random game
How could I implement a random game for iOS via Facebook. I registered my game with Facebook and done everything so far... Can Facebook do such a thing?
EDIT
I connected my app to Facebook, I can ...
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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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Help retrieving/sending data to/from a server on iOS (C#, Mono, .Net)
I'm sorry in advance if this is a silly question.
I'm currently working on getting something running where I can grab information from a server. My goal is to make the data I'm retrieving (or ...
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OpenGL ES 2 - glSwapBuffers?
this is what i do to blit FBO onto screen in ViewController:
[m_Context presentRenderbuffer:GL_RENDERBUFFER];
but i need something like glSwapBuffers, so that i can call it somewhere from the ...
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Port libgdx application to iOS
I made my game using libgdx which is a cross-platform framework which supports desktop, Android and html5 (using Google Web Toolkit). What could be a possible route to port my game to iOS?
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Missing z-axis rotation for transforming between two vectors
I'm trying to rotate a cube so that it's facing up, but am getting hung up on the final implementation details. It now reliably will rotate the x,y axis to the correct side, but the z-axis is never ...
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Is there an AIR native extension to use GameCenter APIs for turn-based games?
I'm planning a turn based game using the iOS 5 GameCenter (GameKit) turn-based functions. Ideally I would program the game with AIR (I'm a Flash dev), but so far I can't seem to find any already ...
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Securing a TCP connection on iOS for an MMO
I am currently building an iOS MMO and I'm leaning towards using TCP as my networking protocol over the higher level HTTP (for the speed difference and the fact that it does not require the client to ...
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How do I repeat a texture with GLKit?
I am using GLKit in order to show textures on my project. The code is like this:
-(void)setTextureImage:(UIImage *)image {
NSError *error;
texture = [GLKTextureLoader ...
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What is the best way to store meshes or 3d models in a class
I am wondering, how I should store my mesh into memory after loading it from whatever file. I have Questions floating in my head:
Should a mesh could have sub meshes or does the 3d model just store ...
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Should I use animated objects or use the physics engine on iOS scenes with lots of rigidbodies?
I have a scene with lots of houses and other objects. These objects will be bombarded from the sky. How to handle these kind of settings having in mind that you want the physics to be as realistic as ...
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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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OpenGL ES screen to world coordinate
I am currently attempting to convert my screen coordinates to world coordinates, to be able to interact with objects. I am using glm and unProject to try and achieve this, so far this is my code:
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Does iOS support BC4 compressed texture?
I've been designing a new OpenGL image algorithm using BC4 textures at its core.
It works well accross Windows and Mac, my main targets up to now.
But today, the customer added a new requirement : it ...
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Repeat image on a fixed background, Cocos2D?
I'm quite new to Cocos2d, does anyone know how to create a background that would be one fixed screen (no scrolling), with a small image just repeated to the whole size of the screen - depending on ...
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Unity3d generating a file in iOS and saving it on a linux machine
I've done a little research and don't know if the following is possible.
At the moment I have created a small application in Unity that generates an XML file. This file will be used to help set up ...
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Unity3d import file on iOS device
im trying to figure out how to recall an external file in runtime on iOS device. I've already tried using Application.data+"/Raw/MY_FILE", with Application.streamingAssetsPath+"/MY_FILE", and with ...
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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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Drawing application on OpenGL for iOS (iPad) [closed]
Some help is needed. I'm developing drawing application on OpenGL (deployment target 4.0) for iOS (iPad). We have 3 drawing tools: pen, marker (with alfa) and eraser. I apply drawing with textures ...
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Threading iPhone
Say I have a group of large meshes that I have to intersect rays against. Assume also, for whatever reason, I cannot further simplify/reduce poly check count by spatial subdivisioning. I can do this ...
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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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Why do my pyramids fade black and then back to colour again [closed]
I have the following vertecies and norms
GLfloat verts[36] = {
-0.5, 0, 0.5,
0, 0, -0.5,
0.5, 0, 0.5,
0, 0, -0.5,
0.5, 0, 0.5,
0, 1, 0,
-0.5, 0, 0.5,
0, 0, -0.5,
0, 1, 0,
0.5, 0, 0.5,
-0.5, 0, ...
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Correct use of VAO's in OpenGL ES2 for iOS?
I'm migrating to OpenGL ES2 for one of my iOS projects, and I'm having trouble to get any geometry to render successfully. Here's where I'm setting up the VAO rendering:
void bindVAO(int ...
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UIView with IrrlichtScene - iOS
i have a UIViewController in a Storyboard and want to draw a IrrlichtScene in this View Controller.
My Code:
WWSViewController.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@interface WWSViewController : ...
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Parallax Background Size
If I have three scrolling/continuous parallax backgrounds, what should be the ideal size (width/height) of the background images assuming I am going to support all devices including the new iPad?
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Cocos2D Accelerometer Z axis
I am making a 2D scroller game where the player controls an airplane via the accelerometer I would like to know if it is possible to scale in and to scale out the sprite/airplane using the ...
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Is it normal to these Xcode prompts/errors when you deploy to IOS Simulator from Unity?
Just trying out the IOS build process....
Is it normal to see:
Q1 - "upgrade to latest project format - project currently in Xcode 3.1 format, this will upgrade to 3.2" - just click OK and let Xcode ...
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OpenGL ES Faces appear to be transparent when alpha is 1.0?
I am working on an object (OBJ File) loader for my app on iOS, currently I have successfully read the vertices and the faces of the object, and I am now just adding colours to the imported models.
I ...
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Bodies are colliding but refusing to rotate in Box2D
I'm running box2d in C++ and hooking it up to C# via p/invoke. All physics stuff occurs in C++.
My problem is that bodes know when they are colliding and do so with great precision. However if I have ...
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ERROR: The application bundle does not contain a valid identifier
I'm getting this error "The application bundle does not contain a valid identifier" after my application successfully compiles.This error prevents my game from launching on the phone or the simulator. ...
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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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Game Center leaderboard for games played
I'd like to create a leaderboard that shows how many games each player has played. This works fine for the "all time" section in Game Center, since I can just submit the total number. But what I ...
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Preserving Cocos2D context between UIKit screens
My app is designed to use Cocos2D in the "main game screen" but the rest of the screens are in UIKit. While I feel that this isn't ideal, I really don't have time to port the rest of the screens into ...
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iOS Facebook SDK, Games Start Playing post
im trying to implement a method in my native iOS game the publish a story on face book such as this photo
most games that is integrated with facebook share stories like this in the activity section ...
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Creating a png sequence in Flash? details?
I was wondering if someone could please explain the process and rules for turning an animation into a png sequence, in flash CS5.
I know you can go to export movie and chose png sequence but ...
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iPhone collada object
Hi I am new to game development. I see many examples and tried myself like displaying triangle, cube etc. Now I am looking to render a Collada object. So I created a Collada object using Google Sketch ...
