Jul 25, 2011

[Pixelwave] A better PXSprite template

Makzan iOS Development, Pixelwave development, Pixelwave 0 Comment

This is another post about Pixelwave, the new iOS game development engine that uses API that similar to Flash ActionScript 3. We have another post about caching texture data in Pixelwave. Ok. Let’s get to the content. The original PXSprite template The PXSprite is a display object similar to Flash Sprite (or MovieClip) that is [...]

Apr 29, 2011

[Pixelwave] Caching all texture data into lookup table

Makzan iOS Development, Pixelwave 42games, behind the scene, development, iOS games, Pixelwave, Sneak Out!, texture 0 Comment

First of all, thanks Pixelwave community for providing the great iOS game framework with ActionScript 3 similar API. It is very easy to get the texture data from a given file name into the game with Pixelwave framework. However, the framework load the image data from file each time we call the above code. This [...]

Apr 1, 2011

Dealing with “The bitmap is too large” problem when exporting PNG sequence with JSFL

Makzan Flash iOS Development, iOS Development development, Flash, iOS, JSFL, workflow 0 Comment

We use Adobe Flash to create graphics and JSFL script to export the assets into our iOS games during development. There is an issue in Flash CS5 when calling the document.exportPNG API. When calling the following command to use the default export setting by feeding the 2nd arguments to true, Flash rejects to run the [...]

Mar 26, 2011

Quick note on setting NSZombieEnabled environment variable in XCode 4

Makzan iOS Development development, iOS, xcode, xcode4 5 Comments

The environment variable NSZombieEnabled helps us a lot when debugging EXC_BAD_ACCESS bad access error. Many articles have discussed the usage of this setting and how we set it in old XCode 3.x. In XCode 4, the environment variable setting is moved to the scheme. To set the NSZombieEnabled setting in XCode4, simply click the scheme [...]

Mar 25, 2011

A Preview of Sprite Sheet Animation Class that Extends on Pixelwave

Makzan iOS Development, Pixelwave animation, cocos2d, development, iOS, iPhone, Pixelwave, sprite sheet 0 Comment

We are using the iPhone game development framework – Pixelwave – to build our games. We used to use Cocos2D but later switched to this beta framework. One reason is the Pixelwave provides API similar to ActionScript 3. However, the Pixelwave is still in beta and lacks of some essential features. One feature is to [...]

Jan 12, 2011

Toggling font anti-aliasing of code view in XCode

Makzan iOS Development anti-alising, coding, development, editor, iOS, xcode 9 Comments

There is no any setting option to toggle the font anti-alising (or font smooth) in XCode preferences. Although there is no such setting, we can still set the font size threshold for the anti-aliasing behavior. This threshold in XCode setting defines whether the XCode editor apply anti-alias font smoothing to the code size. We can [...]