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# cocos2d-x v3.6 Release Notes #
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**Table of Contents** *generated with [DocToc](https://github.com/thlorenz/doctoc)*
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- [Misc Information](#misc-information)
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- [Requirements](#requirements)
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- [Runtime Requirements](#runtime-requirements)
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- [Compiler Requirements](#compiler-requirements)
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- [How to run tests](#how-to-run-tests)
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- [Mac OSX & iOS](#mac-osx-&-ios)
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- [Android](#android)
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- [Windows](#windows)
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- [Linux](#linux)
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- [How to start a new game](#how-to-start-a-new-game)
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- [v3.6](#v36)
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- [Highlights of v3.6](#highlights-of-v36)
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- [Features in detail](#features-in-detail-1)
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- [3D TextureCube](#3d-texturecube)
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- [3D Skybox](#3d-skybox)
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- [3D Terrain](#3d-terrain)
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- [Animate3D Quality Control](#animate3d-quality-control)
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- [Un-bottleneck your fill-rate with SpritePolygon](#un-bottleneck-your-fill-rate-with-spritepolygon)
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- [LuaJit ARM64](#luajit-arm64)
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- [Button memory usage optimization](#button-memory-usage-optimization)
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# Misc Information
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* [Full Changelog](https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x/blob/v3/CHANGELOG)
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* v3.0 Release Notes can be found here: [v3.0 Release Notes](https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x/blob/cocos2d-x-3.0/docs/RELEASE_NOTES.md)
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# Requirements
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## Runtime Requirements
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* Android 2.3 or newer
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* iOS 5.0 or newer
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* OS X 10.7 or newer
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* Windows 7 or newer
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* Windows Phone 8.1
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* Linux Ubuntu 14.04 or newer
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## Compiler Requirements
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* Xcode 5.1 or newer for iOS or Mac
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* gcc 4.9 or newer for Linux
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* ndk-r10c for Android
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* Visual Studio 2012 or newer for Windows (win32)
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* Visual Studio 2012 or newer for Windows Phone 8
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## How to run tests
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### Mac OSX & iOS
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* Enter `cocos2d-x/build` folder, open `cocos2d_test.xcodeproj`
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* Select `iOS` or `OS X` target in scheme toolbar
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* Click `run` button
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### Android
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You can run the samples...
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**Using command line:**
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$ cd cocos2d-x
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$ ./setup.py
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$ cd build
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$ ./android-build.py cpp-empty-test -p 10
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$ adb install cocos2d-x/tests/cpp-empty-test/proj.android/bin/CppEmptyTest-debug.apk
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Then click item on Android device to run tests. Available value of `-p` is the API level, cocos2d-x supports from level 10.
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**Using Eclipse:**
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$ cd cocos2d-x
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$ ./setup.py
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$ cd build
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$ ./android-build.py cpp-empty-test -p 10
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Then
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* Import cocos2d-x Android project into Eclipse, the path used to import is `cocos/2d/platform/android`
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* Import `cpp-empty-test` Android project into Eclipse, the path used to import is `tests/cpp-empty-test/proj.android`
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* Build `cpp-empty-test` Android project and run
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### Windows
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* Enter `cocos2d-x/build`, and open `cocos2d-win32.vs2012.sln`
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* Select `cpp-empty-test` as running target
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* Click run button
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### Linux
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$ cd cocos2d-x/build
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$ ./install-deps-linux.sh
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$ cd ../..
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Then
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$ mkdir build
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$ cd build
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$ cmake ../cocos2d-x
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$ make -j4
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Run
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$ cd bin/cpp-empty-test
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$ ./cpp-empty-test
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## How to start a new game
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Please refer to this document: [ReadMe](../README.md)
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# v3.6
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## Highlights of v3.6
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* 3D: added skybox support
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* 3D: added terrain support
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* added `SpritePolygon` to fix overdraw issue
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* used luajit v2.1-20150331 on 64-bit iOS devices
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* removed WP8 support
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* memory usage optimization of `ui::Button`
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* 3rd: updated Spine runtime to v2.1.25
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* 3rd: updated libcurl to v7.4 on all supported platforms except WP8.1 universal
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* 3rd: updated chipmunk to v6.2.2
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* 3rd: updated openssl to v1.0.11
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* 3rd: updated freetype to v2.5.5
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* 3rd: updated png to v1.6.16
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Because Angle doesn't support WP8 any more, and WP8's market share is around 20% worldwide with variations across countries, so we removed WP8 support suggested by MS OPEN TECK guys since v3.6.
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## Features in detail
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### 3D TextureCube
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TextureCube is useful for skybox and environment mapping. It uses 6 faces of a cube as map shape, and 6 pictures are projected onto the sides of a cube and stored as six square textures.
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**TexturesCube usage**
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```c++
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auto texturecube = TextureCube::create("left.jpg", "right.jpg", "top.jpg", "bottom.jpg","front.jpg", "back.jpg");
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//set texture parameters
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Texture2D::TexParams tRepeatParams;
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tRepeatParams.magFilter = GL_NEAREST;
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tRepeatParams.minFilter = GL_NEAREST;
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tRepeatParams.wrapS = GL_MIRRORED_REPEAT;
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tRepeatParams.wrapT = GL_MIRRORED_REPEAT;
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texturecube->setTexParameters(tRepeatParams);
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//create a GLProgramState using custom shader
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auto shader = GLProgram::createWithFilenames("cube_map.vert", "cube_map.frag");
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auto state = GLProgramState::create(shader);
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// pass the texture sampler to our custom shader, state is a pointer of GLProgramState, u_cubeTex is a uniform in shader
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state->setUniformTexture("u_cubeTex", texturecube);
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```
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Then the shader cube_map.frag can be something like this,
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```c++
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varying vec3 v_reflect; //reflect direction
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uniform samplerCube u_cubeTex;
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void main(void)
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{
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gl_FragColor = textureCube(u_cubeTex, v_reflect); //sample the color of reflection direction
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}
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```
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For more information please refer to cpp-tests/Sprite3DTest/Sprite3DCubeMapTest.
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### 3D Skybox
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Skybox is a common component in 3D game. It is based on TextureCube.
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Usage of skybox
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```c++
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// create a texture cube
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auto textureCube = TextureCube::create("left.jpg", "right.jpg","top.jpg", "bottom.jpg","front.jpg", "back.jpg");
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//create a skybox
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auto skyBox = Skybox::create();
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skyBox->retain();
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//set cube texture to the skybox
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skyBox->setTexture(textureCube);
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addChild(_skyBox);
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```
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For more information please refer to cpp-tests/Sprite3DTest/Sprite3DCubeMapTest.
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### 3D Terrain
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Terrain is an important component in 3D game. A texture is used to stand for the height map. And up to 4 textures can be used to blend the details of the terrain, grass, road, and so on.
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Usage of terrain
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```c++
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//blended layers
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Terrain::DetailMap dirt("TerrainTest/dirt.jpg"), grass("TerrainTest/Grass2.jpg"), road("TerrainTest/road.jpg"), green("TerrainTest/GreenSkin.jpg");
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//height map, alpha map (blend weight), and blended layers
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Terrain::TerrainData data("TerrainTest/heightmap16.jpg", "TerrainTest/alphamap.png", dirt, grass, road, green);
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//create terrain here
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_terrain = Terrain::create(data,Terrain::CrackFixedType::SKIRT);
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//set lod distance
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_terrain->setLODDistance(3.2,6.4,9.6);
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//it must be less than 5
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_terrain->setMaxDetailMapAmount(4);
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addChild(_terrain);
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```
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For more information please refer to cpp-tests/Sprite3DTest/TerrainTest.
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### Animate3D Quality Control
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In order to make Animate3D run fast, you can use low quality animation. There are three types of animation quality：
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* Animate3DQuality::QUALITY_NONE
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* Animate3DQuality::QUALITY_LOW
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* Animate3DQuality::QUALITY_HIGH
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`Animate3DQuality::QUALITY_NONE` means the animation will not be updated. You can use this type on the animation that you are sure it is not visible. `Animate3DQuality::QUALITY_LOW` will use the nearest keyframe to display current frame; `Animate3DQuality::QUALITY_HIGH` will will interpolate between keyframes.
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```c++
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std::string fileName = "Sprite3DTest/orc.c3b";
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auto sprite = Sprite3D::create(fileName);
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addChild(sprite);
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auto animation = Animation3D::create(fileName);
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if (animation)
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{
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auto animate = Animate3D::create(animation);
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//use low quality animation
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animate->setQuality(Animate3DQuality::QUALITY_LOW);
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sprite->runAction(RepeatForever::create(animate));
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}
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```
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The animation quality is also configurable in config.plist, the key is cocos2d.x.3d.animate_high_quality. All created Animate3D base on this key if exist. You can modify it using the above method.
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### Un-bottleneck your fill-rate with SpritePolygon
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SpritePolygon is a 2d Node, like Sprites, it displays a 2d Image.
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But the difference is where Sprites is made of 2 triangles to form a quad, SpritePolygon is made of N number of triangles. `It is an experimental feature.`
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This allows the GPU to draw the same graphics with much lower pixels.
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Because 2d games tends to not use much vertices compared to 3d games, but almost of all sprites are `none rectangular`, GPU wastes precious bandwidth drawing area that is totally transparent. Fill-rate is often the bottleneck in a graphic intense 2d game. SpritePolygon is the perfect cure for "Over-Draw".
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Following picture is the result of performance comparing, corresponding performance test cases are in `tests/cpp-tests/Classes/SpritePolygonTest`:
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For more detail description of SpritePolygon please refer to [this thread](http://discuss.cocos2d-x.org/t/new-feature-meshsprite-polygonsprite/21153)
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### luajit arm64
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The version of the luajit is [v2.1-20150331](https://github.com/openresty/luajit2/releases). We have consulted the author of luajit, he said it was stability enough to be used. We will update to v2.1 when it is released.
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Using luajit arm64 version is that because it can improve the performance. In previous versions of cocos2d-x, it uses lua on iOS 64-bit devices.
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Bytecode of luajit and luajit arm64 are not compatible, which means you can not use one version of bytecode on iOS 32-bit devices and iOS 64-bit devices.
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As there is not mandatory requirement of having arm64 bit bin on Android, so we don't use luajit arm64 on Android as its bytecode is not compatible with luajit arm32.
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### Button memory usage optimization
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Now the title label of Button is created on demand. A Button without title won't
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create an extra empty label.
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And we have also removed some redundant string variables in Button's header file.
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We use Cpp-Empty-Test to verify this optimization.
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Here is the test code:
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```
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auto visibleSize = Director::getInstance()->getVisibleSize();
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auto origin = Director::getInstance()->getVisibleOrigin();
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int num = 100;
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for (int i=0; i < num; ++i)
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{
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auto button = ui::Button::create("ClosedNormal.png",
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"ClosedSelected.png");
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button->setPosition(origin + visibleSize/2);
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this->addChild(button);
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}
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```
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And here is the result:
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#### On iOS platform
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|Num of buttons|100 | 200 | 500| 1000|
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|Before optimization | 61M | 61.9M | 67.1M | 72.2M|
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|After optimization |60.7M| 61.1M | 66M | 67.9M|
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#### On Mac platform
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|Num of buttons|100 | 200 | 500| 1000|
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|Before optimization |26.8M | 27.1M| 33.2M| 35.4M|
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|After optimization |25.1M|25.9M|28M|32.4M|
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