Cocos2d-JS v3.5 is released with 3D and WP on board!

pandamicro · April 3, 2015, 1:59am

Hi, all

Cocos2d-JS have released four major version until now,

v3.0 have truly combined the web engine and native engine with unified workflow, simple and consistent API.
v3.1 published Facebook Integration which was officially supported by Facebook.
v3.2 greatly improved the web engine performance and compatibility across mobile browsers.
v3.3 enhanced our toolchain, Spine and Cocos editor support have been upgraded to the latest version, Cocos DevTool was published.

Now the continuous effort of our open source community have brought another two great features to Cocos2d-JS. The version 3.5 have merged 3D modules and supported Windows Phone 8 & Windows Universal platforms.

By the way, we skipped v3.4 to catch up with the Cocos2d-x’s version so that our user won’t get confused about their relationship. (This is not a joke ~)

Here is the detailed release note:

Highlights

3D feature ready! Bound 3D modules including camera, light, sprite 3d, animation 3d, billboard, 3D particle system with Particle Universe etc.
Supported Cocos Studio 2.2 3D scene editing.
Windows Phone 8.0 and Windows Universal App support are finally ready! Thanks to the contribution from Microsoft.
Upgraded SpiderMonkey to v33, greatly improved JavaScript memory management and performance.
Supported Spine editor v2.1.
Continuously improved web engine performance.

3D test cases

A 3D scene edited with Cocos 2.2 and parsed with Cocos2d-JS v3.5

Notice

For JSB build, there are some restrictions :

[Android build] Suggested NDK version is r10c +, if you don’t need Android 5.0 compatibility, you can also use r9d, other NDKs are not supported.
[iOS build] Xcode version must be 5.1.1 +
[Web code obfuscation] JRE or JDK version must be 1.6+

Download

More information

Read more about all the features and bug fixes

Upgrade your project from previous versions

If you want to upgrade your game based on v3.0 previous version to the v3.5, you should follow these steps:

Download the Cocos2d-JS v3.5 package.
Upgrade cocos command with setup.py.
Create a new project with cocos new command.
Replace the “src”, “res”, “index.html”, “project.json”, “main.js” etc with your old project.
Then you may need to refer to the upgrade guide to solve some API change issues.

About Cocos2d family

Cocos2d-JS v3.5 uses Cocos2d-x v3.5 as base of JSB solution.
Cocos2d-JS v3.5 uses SpiderMonkey v33 as builtin JavaScript engine.
Cocos2d-JS v3.5 is compatible with Cocos Code IDE v1.2.0.
Cocos2d-JS v3.5 is compatible with Cocos Studio v1.2 - v1.6 and Cocos Studio 2.1+.

With any problems you might have, our communities are happy to help:

pandamicro · April 3, 2015, 1:59am

pandamicro · April 3, 2015, 2:00am

Zinitter · April 3, 2015, 4:29am

Congratz to the release of Cocos2d-JS v3.5!

The 3D feature is a huge improvement of engine and it looks great on the 3D test cases.

Thumbs up for the Cocos team!

Found some issues on test case on Mac :

Camera3D test and Sprite3D test -> cc.DrawNode3D is not a constructor

murlock · April 3, 2015, 2:40pm

Great job !

It should great to be able to download API 3.5 : http://www.cocos2d-x.org/wiki/Cocos2d-JS#2-Download-and-API-reference is still linked to 3.0

Regards,

emmyc · April 3, 2015, 10:35pm

Congratulations!! Thanks for the great work, cocos2d team

pandamicro · April 4, 2015, 3:57pm

Updated, thanks for reminding me, I usually update via github which will be synced to this page:

http://cocos2d-x.org/docs/manual/framework/html5/en

RobotMonkey · April 4, 2015, 9:23pm

@pandamicro WP8 is pretty cool, wasn’t expecting that for the JS version! Can you build for WP8 in Cocos IDE or do you need to use Visual Studio? If VS, is there a template available to start a project (like they have for most web apps, etc.)?

pandamicro · April 5, 2015, 2:23am

Unfortunately, Code IDE doesn’t support WP8 build yet. You can use our built in WP8 project, the usage is described here:

github.com

pandamicro/cocos-docs/blob/master/manual/framework/html5/release-notes/v3.5/upgrade-guide/en.md

#Upgrade guide from Cocos2d-JS v3.3 to Cocos2d-JS v3.5

## 0. Upgrade to Cocos2d-JS v3.3

If you are still using Cocos2d-html5 or previous version of Cocos2d-JS, you may need to read the previous upgrade guides first : [Historic upgrade guides](../../en.md)

## 1. Pulish to Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8.1 Universal platforms

Follow these steps can help you upgrade to v3.5, then create a project and at last working for Windows Phone 8.

1. You need to upgrade cocos console with the `setup.py` in Cocos2d-JS v3.5 package:

    ```
    $ cd cocos2d-js-v3.5
    $ ./setup.py
    ```
    
2. Create a Cocos2d-JS v3.5 project:

    ```

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RobotMonkey · April 5, 2015, 3:24pm

Thanks, that was just what I needed!

kidproquo · April 5, 2015, 4:15pm

The lite workflow needs to be updated for the Closure section. Corrections:

compilationLevel option to be changed from advanced to simple in the build.xml file
Make the list of JS sources in the build.xml the same order as jsList in project.json. Also remember to include main.js and the cocos lite JS file.
The project.json file needs to be changed - remove all entries from the jsList array. These are already included in the minified file.

jarsj · April 7, 2015, 8:21am

How can we use cocos 2.2 ? I went to cocos.com and couldn’t find english support.

vishal39 · April 7, 2015, 9:17am

how to add physics to Sprite3d objects(C++)?

pandamicro · April 7, 2015, 9:51am

Thanks for noticing. We will update it soon.
@VisualSJ please take a look.

pandamicro · April 7, 2015, 10:01am

We have a brief introduction and download here: http://cocos2d-x.org/products

pandamicro · April 7, 2015, 10:02am

We don’t have internal full featured 3D physics support yet. But we do have OBB/AABB collision detection, you can refer to the test cases for Sprite3D

Morishoji · April 8, 2015, 8:11am

When trying my project to 3.5, I found a bug on drawNode.drawPoly.
for (var i = 0; i < 50; i+= 10) { drawnode.drawPoly([cc.p(200, i), cc.p(250, i + i/10), cc.p(300, i)], cc.color(255,255,255,255), 0, cc.color(255,255,255,255)); }
I expected, draw 5 polygons, width is all 100 and height is 0 to 5.
but, running on html5 v3.5, as polygon height lowers, width becomes wide

Sorry, I capture a screenshot. but cannot upload. (I’m newbie)

pandamicro · April 8, 2015, 8:37am

We will test it.

To upload an image, just drag the image into the edit box at the bottom it will start to upload automatically.

ludingping · April 8, 2015, 9:42am

Hi @Morishoji

It is a known issue of cc.DrawNode on WebGL mode.

We will migrate the latest of cc.DrawNode from -x.

laser · April 8, 2015, 10:28am

After moving my code from v3.3 to v3.5 html5 version works just fine, but windows complied game asks for MSVCP110D.dll

I tried to run debug directly using

\runtime-src\proj.win32\projname.sln

I have visual studio 2013, and searched for a problem. One option could be that the library was compiled with different visual studio runtime. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21458908/fixing-the-msvcp110d-dll-is-missing-from-your-computer-issue

Could you please check? In cocos2d-js v3.3 everything is good.