Cocos Creator v1.1.2 released!

[slackmoehrle]

Cocos Creator 1.1.2 released!

We are excited to release version 1.1.2 of Cocos Creator. Cocos Creator is a new, unified, development tool that handles every step in the game development process.

##v1.1.2 Changelog:

Editor

• [Editor] Build to Web platform will merge asset JSON files now. The requests to download asset will drop by 50% in general. Currently an asset shared among multiple scenes will be merged additively. (If assetA and assetB both referenced by sceneC and sceneD, assetA and assetB will be merged into one JSON)
• [Editor] Disable ‘Preview’ button when there’re compilation error for user script. Once all errors are resolved the error log will be cleared in console.
• [Editor] Removed Squirrel.Windows installer framework, with the new installer you can specify installation location and configure check update frequency.
• [Editor] Fixed spriteFrame atlas replacement tool can cause reference error when replacing spriteFrame in multiple scenes.
• [Scene] Fixed multi-select some nodes and press arrow keys to move them may get the distance wrong issue.
• [Component] The Add component menu in Properties panel now sorted alphabetically.
• [Importer] When import Cocos Studio or Cocos Builder project, buttons without text will not create Label nodes.
• [Importer] Fixed import Cocos Studio older version may cause animation data lost issue.
• [Importer] Fixed imported Cocos Studio / Cocos Builder project wrong value of lineHeight for Bitmap Font component issue.
• [Build] Fixed build native failed may cause process to freeze issue.
• [Build] Fixed preview with Chrome browser may cause Failed to parse SourceMap error issue.
• [Build] Fixed building an empty project will cause: Build Failed: Error: TypeError: next is not a function issue.
• [Prefab] Add a main menu item Node Presets-> Convert to Ordinary Node to break break the link of a node to prefab asset.
• [Prefab] Fixed in prefab editing mode click ‘save’ button may not work issue.
• [Animation] Fixed setting node opacity at the last frame event callback of an animation may fail issue.
• [Animation] Fixed deleting animation event may fail issue.
• [Assets] Fixed atlas and TTF assets may get reimported when open project issue.
• [Assets] Fixed sprite not rendered correctly when referenced spriteFrame asset moved issue.
• [Assets] Fixed texture asset thumbnail not updated when texture content changed issue.
• [Assets] Fixed an error that can cause editor to freeze when importing 10000+ assets for new project issue.
• [Assets] Fixed assets may not be imported correctly when moved assets after close editor issue.
• [Assets] Add a warning dialog when user moved assets without updating the corresponding meta files.
• [Assets] Add a replace asset confirmation dialog when dragging assets with the same names from file system to editor’s Assets panel.

Engine

• [Render] Fixed an issue that when setting parent node’s opacity to 0 while setting child node’s active to false may cause child node to not render when reactivated.
• [Engine] Fixed simulator cannot send http request on macOS 10.11 issue.
• [Engine] Fixed VS Code debug native fail on Mac issue.
• [Engine] Fixed cc.follow action result in wrong coordinates issue.
• [Engine] Add an error message when assign a boolean type value to cc.Label.string.
• [Engine] Fixed cc.game.addPersistRootNode API may not work correctly in native platforms issue.
• [Engine] Fixed screen flicker when switching scenes.
• [Engine] Fixed script initialization may fail issue when re-enter a scene.
• [Engine] Fixed when loading a Prefab asset in scene may cause infinite asset request issue.
• [Engine] If game is running on Android OS with virtual buttons, the virtual button will be hidden when game launches.
• [Engine] Fixed cc.repeat action will count wrongly when repeat times is above 6.
• [JSB] Fixed cc.follow may cause error in JSB native platforms.
• [JSB] Fixed scheduler.isScheduled() not implemented in JSB issue.
• [JSB] Fixed _errorHandler wasn't found error reported in console with no valid reason issue.
• [JSB] Fixed setMargin API not implemented in JSB for LabelOutline issue.
• [Audio] Fixed audio asset takes very long to load on iOS browser issue.
• [Audio] Fixed rewind API not working for AudioSource component issue.

Component

• [Label] Fixed when overflow set to Shrink font size and label text flow not calculated correctly issue.
• [Label] For BitmapFont label, When total character width smaller than Label node’s width, character wrap mode will be enabled.
• [Label] Fixed system font overflow not calculated correctly issue.
• [ScrollView] Fixed button in ScrollView may stay in hover state issue.
• [ScrollView] Fixed register touchend touchcancel event on ScrollView node may not trigger correctly issue.
• [ScrollView] Disable ScrollView node will stop scrolling now.
• [EditBox] Add all lowercase format, fixed using TTF font asset on Android system issue.
• [EditBox] Fixed calling setVisible will pop keyboard issue.
• [EditBox] Fixed on mobile browser EditBox need to be clicked twice to pop keyboard issue.
• [EditBox] Fixed EditBox not clickable in ScrollView issue.
• [Layout] Fixed change child node’s active property will not get correct bounding box size in None mode issue.
• [Layout] Fixed issue when add a child node to Layout and then remove will not remove event listeners correctly.
• [Button] Fixed switching interactable property for Button will not update normal and disable state spriteFrame issue.
• [Collider] Fixed disabling collider will not clear debug draw issue.
• [MotionStreak] Improved MotionStreak compatibility for Android browser.
• [Tilemap] Fixed TiledMap may render with seams in WebGL platform issue.
• [Tilemap] Fixed SGTiledLayer has inconsistent API between Web and Native implementation issue.
• [Tilemap] Fixed issue that when tmx file is not at the same location of texture file the Tilemap may not rendered correctly issue.
• [Spine] Fixed getCurrent() may cause infinite loop in JSB native platform issue. Please use spine.getCurrent() to fetch current playing track.
• [Mask] Fixed masked node can still receive touch event issue.
• [Mask] Fixed disabled Mask component can still block child node from touch event issue.

Downloads:

• Creator for Mac
• Creator for Windows

Resources:

• Read the documentation
• YouTube

Full Release Notes from v1.1

Import Project from Cocos Studio / Cocos Builder

As the newest member of Cocos engine family, it’s very important to have data compatibility with scene building tools like Cocos Studio and Cocos Builder. In the new release users can use the ‘Import project…’ menu item from main menu to import ccs and ccb project file.

Assets that can be imported including: Scene, Layer, Node, Texture, Scene Timeline, Particle and Audio. Due to the big difference between object oriented and component scripting system, the source code won’t be imported.

Collider Component System

Physics and collision are key elements of action games. We have received tons of feedback asking for physics engine support. In v1.1 we added Collider Component system so that you can easily use Cocos Creator to develop action based games!

First, once we attach a Collider component to a node, we can specify shape, size and position of the collider. For certain shape of colliders you can also edit control points freely to create any shape you like.

We also add a ‘Group’ property for Node, by setting group collision rules we can control wether a node should collide with other nodes from a certain group.

You can register a callback function on a component attached to the same node. So that when collision happens, the callback function is called with arguments including the other collider and the collider itself. Then you can write any logic code to handle the collision to perform the desire behavior.

Since 3rd party physics engines are generally large and most games will only use small portion of it. We didn’t include any physics engine in the release.

Engine Customization Workflow

Engine customization is always one of the highlight feature of Cocos engine family. Cocos Creator v1.1 contains full engine customization worfklow. There are two layers of engine customization: JavaScript and C++. If you work on Web project you only need JavaScript engine, if you work on cross-platform or one of the native platform you’ll need to customize C++ engine as well.

The JavaScript and C++ engines are now available on Github, forks and pull requests are welcome!

• JavaScript Engine: https://github.com/cocos-creator/engine
• C++ Engine: https://github.com/cocos-creator/cocos2d-x-lite

Refined Assets Loading API

We simplified and optimized assets loading API, now you can use cc.loader.loadRes to load any assets with consistent url format. And you should not including asset file extension in the url. Instead, you can pass a second argument to specify the type of asset you want to load.

We also add cc.loader.loadResAll that supports inputing a folder url and load all assets in that folder.

For dynamic scene loading, this release also includes cc.director.preloadScene to handle all the scene assets preloading.

Node Library

In this new panel you can drag and drop node and UI elements to the Scene or Node Tree to easily create them. User can also drag prefab assets from Assets panel to Node Library to create ‘shortcut’ of frequently used prefabs.

Breaking Changes

• [Atlas] cc.SpriteAtlas.getSpriteFrame argument changed, now you should pass spriteFrame name without file extension, such as atlas.getSpriteFrame(‘sheep_run_0’).
• [Engine] cc.loader.loadRes arguments changed, you should not specify file extension in the url.
• [Engine] cc.Font asset type has been changed from RawAsset to Asset, so in component property declaration the type of font asset should be declared as type: cc.Font (or cc.BitmapFont / cc.TTFFont)
• [Editor] editor window layout data format changed, if you open a project with Creator v1.1 and then use Creator v1.0 to open it a layout error will occur. You can use main menu’s ‘Layout->Default’ to fix it.

Full Changelog

Editor

• [Scene] Fixed when undo with Ctrl/Cmd+Z node size may not get recovered issue.
• [NodeLibrary] Fixed user custom nodes cannot be saved issue.
• [Editor] Fixed an simulator crash issue if Cocos Builder imported project has particle data with missing texture
• [Editor] Remove data that’s using default value in exported JSON file to reduce release package size.
• [Editor] Fixed an issue that cause Editor log file cannot be accessed.
• [Editor] Add auto refresh option to enable or disable refresh on preview device when recompiling scripts or saving scene.
• [Editor] Fixed renaming Atlas assets may cause texture asset reference error issue.
• [Editor] Fixed publish to web platform may have broken bitmap font asset reference issue.
• [Editor] Fixed an issue that when importing Tmx assets on Windows, the raw asset reference may be invalid.
• [Prefab] Fixed after double click prefab to enter edit mode, click close without any modification will cause save prompt to pop issue.
• [Animation] Fixed changing current editing animation clip name will cause error.
• [Animation] Fixed an issue that cannot drag spriteFrames to spriteFrame property track.

Component

• [Component] When add more than one component that may affect node’s size, there’ll be clear error message.
• [Component] Make sure there are correct error message when CCClass property default value is inconsistent with property type.
• [Label] Bitmap Font component now has original font size displayed in Properties panel.
• [Label] Fixed when Label using system font update string content the node size will not be updated correctly issue.
• [Label] Fixed Label using TTF font may cause font resource to be loaded twice in Web browser issue.
• [Label] Fixed when Label content size changed the event not fired correctly issue.
• [Canvas] Fixed setting opacity property has no effect for Canvas node if there’s an EditBox component in Canvas’s children.
• [Layout] Fixed deactivate children node will not trigger size recalculate for Layout container resize mode.
• [Layout] Refactored Layout and Widget calculation to increase performance.
• [ScrollView] Fixed when content is a Layout component with ResizeMode set to Container, the scrollToXXX apis will not take effect in current frame issue.
• [ScrollView] Fixed in JSB use Label as content may not be able to scroll issue.
• [MotionStreak] Now the trail will be rendered according to anchor point, also fixed setDirtyFlag error on Android, add a property to set trail color.
• [Audio] Fixed AudioSource will not stop playing when switching scene.

Engine

• [Engine] Add a new class cc.NodePool to replace cc.pool. The new NodePool will be fully compatible with the new event system, so you can get a node from the pool and register/deregister any event you like.
• [Engine] Add VideoPlayer component, currently only supports Web, iOS and Android.
• [Engine] Fixed an issue that update may execute before start.
• [Engine] Fixed an issue that using this.node.active = false in onLoad function will not disable rendering issue.
• [Engine] Fixed an issue that update will not execute after disable and enable component multiple times.
• [Engine] Fixed cc.Animation.removeClip api will stop current playing animation if the first argument is not defaultClip and the second argument is false
• [Engine] Fixed dt (delta time) in update function may not be real time between this and previous frame issue.
• [Engine] Reworked cc.loader.loadRes api, now url should not specify file extension. The second arugment is to specify a type for the resource. Add a new api cc.loader.loadResAll to load all assets in a given folder.
• [Engine] Add cc.director.preloadScene api for preload a scene and all its assets. The old cc.director.runScene will be deprecated
• [Engine] Fixed cc.tintTo has inconsistent arguments between web and JSB
• [Engine] Fixed unschedule the same callback function twice will terminate all other scheduler issue.
• [Engine] Fixed accessing builtin component in onLoad may not get component instance issue.
• [Engine] Fixed calling addComponent in onLoad will result in the added component’s onLoad not execute immediately issue.
• [Engine] Fixed calling loadScene in onLoad function will cause error issue.
• [Engine] Add a feature to force orientation according to Publish setting even if the platform does not allow it (there’re some browser that will lock the orientation)
• [Engine] In preferences panel you can set JavaScript and C++ engine path to the clone from github, to easily integrate custom engine workflow.
• [Engine] Fixed using setSiblingIndex to change node order may cause touch event handling in wrong order.
• [Engine] Add protection for important global variable so they cannot be overwrite.
• [JSB] Fixed cc.pSub return value type is not Vec2 issue.
• [JSB] Fixed cc.callFunc callback function argument not consistent between JSB and Web issue.
• [JSB] Fixed error when calling event.stopPropagation in JSB
• [JSB] Fixed auto-binding for jsb.EventListenerAssetsManager
• [JSB] Fixed a crush issue that onTouchBegan function in eventListener cause when not return true.

Demo Projects

The most important source of examples is the Example Collection project template. There are also many demos to show a complete game:

• Dark Slash basic game loop demo. Special thanks to Veewo Games for authorizing us to use original ‘Dark Slash’ game resources to make this tutorial.

• UI Demos including multi-resolution supporting menu interface with cool transition animations, a backpack generated by data and prefab and a Clash Royale style navigation menu showcase.
• Blackjack demo, collaboratively developed with Tencent Games.
• Flappy Bird clone featuring a sheep.
• Star Catcher demo game, in user manual we have a quick start tutorial showing how to build this game step by step.

We will keep on adding more demos and complete games as well as improving the existing ones!

[amin13a]

Thanks All.
Any Support for C++ ?

[slackmoehrle]

Not yet. But it is a feature we promised.

[sergeyloysha]

What about SDKBOX support?

[efares]

Nice update!
Any idea when SDKBOX integration will come in?

Thanks. You guys are doing awesome work!

[Apollo18]

There are two layers of engine customization: JavaScript and C++.

I am confused. If you don’t yet support C++, what does the above statement mean?

[slackmoehrle]

I am confused. If you don’t yet support C++, what does the above statement mean?

You can’t yet write code in C++, This mean, that you can use customised c++ engine for mobile compilation, but code you should write with JavaScript

[piotrros]

When I’m trying to import project from Cocos Studio I’m getting a lot of these warnings:

It’s not recommended to use SpriteFrame constructor (new SpriteFrame) to create SpriteFrame instance since it’s memory will be unable to manage. Instead please use cc.loader.loadRes to get SpriteFrame instance from loading, or define a cc.SpriteFrame property in your component and drag the SpriteFrame onto it.

Also files are imported to certain scene and then it fails with error:

Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read
    at Error (native)
    at Object.fs.readSync (fs.js:651:19)
    at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:472:24)
    at Object.fs.readFileSync (ATOM_SHELL_ASAR.js:449:29)
    at _importCSDFile (/Applications/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/editor/builtin/project-importer/core/studio/csd-importer.js:1:522)
    at /Applications/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/editor/builtin/project-importer/core/studio/csd-importer.js:1:26646
    at fn (/Applications/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:746:34)
    at /Applications/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:1213:16
    at /Applications/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:166:37
    at /Applications/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:706:43
    at EventEmitter.e (/Applications/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/editor/builtin/project-importer/main.js:1:204)
    at EventEmitter.g (events.js:260:16)
    at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)
    at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:172:7)
    at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/Applications/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/atom.asar/browser/api/web-contents.js:134:25)
    at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)
    at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:172:7)

[cwarwick3]

[SOLVED]
Turns out, it was a particular prefab that I was referencing that was causing the build to fail. The issue seems to be that the prefab has a reference to another prefab which had a Sprite component with no spriteframe. This was a strange issue and I wish there was a better error indicating the problem so I could have tracked it down more easily.

[ORIGINAL]
Since upgrading to v1.1.2, I’ve been having issues running native builds for my application. I have a node with a custom component that has a reference to a prefab. That reference to the prefab breaks the build and gives me the following error:

Build Failed: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/Development/3mg/flytRepo/jsb-default/res/import/d7/d75e07fb-4f8b-4376-9dfe-14adc1eb5072.json’
2
at Error (native)
at /Applications/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/editor/core/builder.js:1:1647
at Gulp.doneCallback (/Applications/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/editor/core/gulp-build.js:1:9307)
at Gulp.Orchestrator.stop (/Applications/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/orchestrator/index.js:150:9)
at r (/Applications/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/editor/core/gulp-build.js:1:3197)
at /Applications/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/editor/core/gulp-build.js:1:5832
at EventEmitter. (/Applications/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/editor-framework/lib/main/ipc.js:1:7874)
at emitMany (events.js:108:13)
at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:182:7)
at EventEmitter. (/Applications/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/atom.asar/browser/api/web-contents.js:134:25)

If I remove the reference to the prefab from the component on the node, the build works. I’ve got other types of properties on the component including Nodes and numbers but the prefabs appear to be the problem. I was not having this issue in the previous version of Cocos Creator and was able to build and deploy to both iOS and Android successfully.

Is there something I need to do to correct this issue or does this sound like a bug?

Thank you!

Example of the custom component script:

cc.Class({
    extends: cc.Component,

    properties: {
        playerSpawn: cc.Node,
        enemyDeathZone: cc.Node,
        enemySpawn: cc.Node,
        playerPrefabTest: cc.Prefab, <- this breaks the build when the property is referencing an actual prefab asset

[agostta]

Hello cocos team,
I’m very happy with the Cocos-Creator productivity, cotinuos updates and new fetures.
It’s nice to see the community getting bigger.
thanks for all

[NemoidStudio]

I just installed and try v1.1.2 : there is still the same bug with the Cocos Studio importer I reported on previous version : Cocos Creator v1.1.1 released!

Are you going to fix ? Do I need to fill a bug report somewhere ?

[efares]

I also have a “bug report.” I made a post here:

[SOLVED] hello_world does not open on Android when build with default template

Hi, I created a plain Hello World project using Cocos Creator v1.1.2 and I did not change anything. I built the project and compiled it for Android using a debug Keystore but it does not open on 2/3 of my Android devices. I get the error message saying “Unfortunately, hello_world has stopped.” Does anyone else get this error? [image] [image] Tried my game [image] [image] Here it works: [image] [image] Also, is there any way to make the Android buttons disappear when the game is open? Is…

Anywhere we can report these to?
Thanks.

[ggc]

I’m confused too. You had a quite good tool “cocos” where I was able to create new projects and connect them directly on xcode/android studio/whatever where is now everything? Why you cancelled it and substituted with something incomplete insted of supporting both?

[slackmoehrle]

FWIW, I feel the same way. I used the Cocos GUI app for a lot. I voted that we keep it around and I lost that vote.

[ggc]

Happy to see that someone share the same opinion.
Sad to see that the final decision was to cancel Cocos GUI instead mantain it or of release the code. That decision bring some trouble to me. I was struggling to keep my team on Cocos but that could change everything, if your focus is the web.

[slackmoehrle]

our focus is not the web. Yes we support the web but we also support C++, Lua, JavaScript all on the desktop and native mobile apps. On top of that, the web too

[ggc]

But the C++ support seems to be less than the JavaScript support. I’m not talking at the API level but on tool level. Everything was going in the right way with Cocos but now introducing Cocos Creator everything it’s getting more difficult if you are working on a native app.

Furthermore is CocoStudio.h going to be deprecated?

[slackmoehrle]

Cocos Studio is indeed EOL’d. I’ll create a GitHub issue to deprecate cocosstudio.h

Yes, tool wise Creator is JavaScript. C++ and Lua are being added to it. This takes a bit of time as you can imagine.

Difficult, perhaps, if you have relied on our tools. We have EOL’d tools and totally threw you all for a tale spin with others. The upside is that we are improving and the quality of the tools is a lot better. Creator is a much better tool than Studio. We just need to keep improving Creator until we get our users everything they need to make their games.

[mbgtcx]

Hi @slackmoehrle

Which time and version CC support intergrade SDKBOX?