Migrating to cocos2d-iphone v3 - Tips & Tricks
This is a collection of Tips & Tricks for users who are migrating to cocos2d-iphone v3 from v2. Mostly refers to questions posted on stackoverflow.com.
Please excuse the short, bullet-pointed format. I’m a little short on time but didn’t want to miss out on another biweekly post like I did two weeks ago (first time in about 4 years, ouch).
General Tips
- Many classes have been renamed…
“Use the source, Luke!” If you don’t find what you are looking for:
- Check the cocos2d API class reference
- Start typing the class or method name, see what suggestions Xcode autocomplete has for you
- Use part of the class name (ie “repeatforever”) and perform a “Find in Project” to search through all source code files
- Tutorial XYZ won’t work with v3!
Yes, it won’t. Most likely it was written for cocos2d-iphone v2.
Question is: do you have to use v3? And do you have to use it right now?
Because if you’re in the process of learning cocos2d it’ll be easier to learn from and with v2 tutorials/books for the time being until more v3 tutorials have been published.
- How to upgrade an existing cocos2d v2 project to v3?
