What features do you wish Cocos2d-x provided?

slackmoehrle · July 2, 2014, 6:52pm

I can tell you that audio is coming in the next release after 3.2.

Mazyod · July 5, 2014, 9:37pm

I subscribe to the long-term stable version, and that’s not because it breaks my game when I update cocos sometimes, that’s not an issue. I can always upgrade towards the end, and overall, not that much changes…

The reason I would push for a long term stable version is to give the community a goal to strive for. As a contributor to the project, I sometimes worry if my contributions are even relevant. If I contribute to the EditBox class, is it necessary? Or should I focus on the TextField class?

The way I see it is defining a very clear line between third party contributions, and core cocos2d-x. The core’s API should rarely change, while the third party code is… third party. If one is good enough to go into the core, then there should be one and only one of that type of component. Allowing the community to contribute modular extensions around the core would be ideal. You can checkout the guys at GameClosure. A developer contributed a whole tilemap engine, and it plugs seamlessly using their basil CLI. Cocos2d now has cocos, so that is a start.

I wish there was a “Cocos Zen of coding” somewhere, as well. What are we emphasizing on here, performance, ease of use, maintainability, modularity, … etc.

Daegon123 · July 5, 2014, 10:38pm

Video support for win32 and mac (+possibly android and ios). This is crucial for many large scale desktop games.

jmullaney · July 6, 2014, 4:05am

A small one, but I think so many apps do this, it’s definitely worthwhile:

Cross-platform API to open a URL.

hulefei29 · July 6, 2014, 6:41am

Please add Transition for popScene

Daegon123 · July 6, 2014, 6:52am

Enhancements to texts would be great

Flowing text) Like how in RPGs, text flow letter by letter on to the screen to form the sentence. The flowing movement pleases the eyes a lot more than just static appearance of text
Vertical text) Traditional Chinese / Korean / Japanese scriptures have text flowing from top to bottom, right to left. It would be great if an option to display text vertically could be implemented to produce such traditional atmosphere.

yagoub · July 6, 2014, 1:39pm

More sophisticated ui, for example add scrollbar to the cocos2d::ui::ScrollView,…

Jgod · July 7, 2014, 1:58am

This might be slightly OT, but what about a package repo for third-party code? (Like npm, rubygems, pypi, cocoapods, etc: my personal favorite is npm). It can be built into cocos-cli. Imagine building up extensions based on versioned dependencies . Surely this would encourage more open-sourcing of components and minimize re-inventing the wheel. A lot of the things people are requesting here could be implemented as extensions (packages) to keep the core lean, while still having the visibility it needs to get used, instead of just on GitHub or some zip file dl somewhere.

This has been discussed before, but obviously an official endorsement would go a long way before committing to the work-load.

slackmoehrle · July 7, 2014, 1:49pm

Thanks everyone for the continued feedback!

Mazyod · July 8, 2014, 1:34am

I thought I’d start one a while back, called it cocoSeeds. Didn’t get far, though.

pretty54 · July 8, 2014, 5:41am

Thanks incredible game engine.

I want drawing rounded rect with sprite, but there are no code.
If add it, cocos2d-x will be more perfect engine.

pabitrapadhy · July 12, 2014, 8:25pm

Please provide the desicription of member functions and classes for integrated physics in the api documentation.

Right upto 3.1.1 the physics api was not integrated with the general cocos2d-x api, but it got solved in cocos2dx 3.2 rc0

but the description of the physics contents are missing.
please fix it by 3.2 stable release…

slackmoehrle · July 14, 2014, 2:19pm

@pabitrapadhy - posting your requests in 1 topic is enough. Posting in multiple topics just confuses things.

pabitrapadhy · July 14, 2014, 6:25pm

oops… sory…

i posted it here… later i found that… there is an announcement for the improvement of wiki and api.

zerocoll24 · July 14, 2014, 8:29pm

Better socket support.

SonarSystems · July 14, 2014, 9:00pm

We have a tutorial that should help with this feature for now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdrCZvOXssY&index=12&list=PLRtjMdoYXLf4vzkg0wdBrp7YoOThOLf4H

slackmoehrle · July 14, 2014, 9:06pm

Thanks @SonarSystems

Mazyod · July 15, 2014, 2:53pm

Maybe a dedicated “API engineer”? That person would be responsible in making sure all API naming conventions are sane and consistent.

I don’t mind sending my naming suggestions, but it will be chaos if everyone sends what they feel is better.

I am saying this because I recently started using the CocosGUI API, and there are quite a few issues there, like:

Widget::ccWidgetTouchCallback callback): That’s typing widget twice. Once is enough.

Widget::addTouchEventListener: In Cocoa, addTarget actually adds the target. In this method, it just sets the callback. It should be renamed or fixed to actually add an event listener.

slackmoehrle · July 15, 2014, 3:01pm

Yes, I can see that. I know that naming conventions and standardizing has been discussed on how to prefix, name, cleanup, etc. Thanks for chiming in.

ricardo · July 15, 2014, 4:40pm

Thanks @dotsquid

Actually, cocos2d-x has the timeScale feature. It was added a few years ago. It is part of the Scheduler:

github.com

cocos2d/cocos2d-x/blob/v3/cocos/base/CCScheduler.h#L193


 */
Scheduler();


/**
 * Destructor
 *
 * @js NA
 * @lua NA
 */
virtual ~Scheduler();


/**
 * Gets the time scale of schedule callbacks.
 * @see Scheduler::setTimeScale()
 */
float getTimeScale() { return _timeScale; }
/** Modifies the time of all scheduled callbacks.
You can use this property to create a 'slow motion' or 'fast forward' effect.
Default is 1.0. To create a 'slow motion' effect, use values below 1.0.
To create a 'fast forward' effect, use values higher than 1.0.
@since v0.8

Regarding feature request #2, what would be your ideal workflow ? Thanks!