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cocos2d-x v3.5 Release Notes

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• Misc Information
• Requirements
  • Runtime Requirements
  • Compiler Requirements
  • How to run tests
    • Mac OSX & iOS
    • Android
    • Windows
    • Linux
  • How to start a new game
• v3.5beta0
  • Highlights of v3.5beta0
  • Features in detail
    • 3D Particles

Misc Information

• Full Changelog
• v3.0 Release Notes can be found here: v3.0 Release Notes

Requirements

Runtime Requirements

• Android 2.3 or newer
• iOS 5.0 or newer
• OS X 10.7 or newer
• Windows 7 or newer
• Windows Phone 8 or newer
• Linux Ubuntu 14.04 or newer

Compiler Requirements

• Xcode 5.1 or newer for iOS or Mac
• gcc 4.9 or newer for Linux
• ndk-r10c for Android
• Visual Studio 2012 or newer for Windows (win32)
• Visual Studio 2012 or newer for Windows Phone 8

How to run tests

Mac OSX & iOS

• Enter cocos2d-x/build folder, open cocos2d_test.xcodeproj
• Select iOS or OS X target in scheme toolbar
• Click run button

Android

You can run the samples...

Using command line:

$ cd cocos2d-x
$ ./setup.py
$ cd build
$ ./android-build.py cpp-empty-test -p 10
$ adb install cocos2d-x/tests/cpp-empty-test/proj.android/bin/CppEmptyTest-debug.apk

Then click item on Android device to run tests. Available value of -p is the API level, cocos2d-x supports from level 10.

Using Eclipse:

$ cd cocos2d-x
$ ./setup.py
$ cd build
$ ./android-build.py cpp-empty-test -p 10

Then

• Import cocos2d-x Android project into Eclipse, the path used to import is cocos/2d/platform/android
• Import cpp-empty-test Android project into Eclipse, the path used to import is tests/cpp-empty-test/proj.android
• Build cpp-empty-test Android project and run

Windows

• Enter cocos2d-x/build, and open cocos2d-win32.vs2012.sln
• Select cpp-empty-test as running target
• Click run button

Linux

$ cd cocos2d-x/build
$ ./install-deps-linux.sh
$ cd ../..

Then

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ../cocos2d-x
$ make -j4

Run

$ cd bin/cpp-empty-test
$ ./cpp-empty-test

How to start a new game

Please refer to this document: ReadMe

v3.5rc0

Highlights of v3.5rc0

Features in detail

v3.5beta0

Highlights of v3.5beta0

Features in detail

3D Particles

It allows to import particles from Particle Universe (http://www.fxpression.com). The usage of particles is as follow,

Option 1, create 3D particle with particle (.pu) file and material file

auto rootps = PUParticleSystem3D::create("lineStreak.pu", "pu_mediapack_01.material");
addChild(rootps);
rootps->startParticleSystem();

Option 2, you can also create 3d particle with particle (.pu) file only, it will load all the material files in the material path

auto rootps = PUParticleSystem3D::create("advancedLodSystem.pu");
addChild(rootps);
rootps->startParticleSystem();

For more information, please refer to cpp-tests/Particle3DTest