Creating a sprite from cocos2d's CCTMXTiledMap
I'm working on a Pipe Mania/Dream clone for iOS using cocos2d. I was able to quickly implement the board using the CCTMXTiledMap component, but then when I started trying to figure out how to setup a sprite preview the next piece I got stuck. I'd intended to try to document all the false starts I took before figuring this solution out, but I waited too long before doing the writeup.
My map gets setup like this and I store a variable to make it easy to get to the board's layer where I'm placing the pieces:
CCTMXTiledMap *map = [CCTMXTiledMap tiledMapWithTMXFile:@"Board.tmx"];
CCTMXLayer *playLayer = [map layerNamed:@"Play"];
[self addChild:map z:-1];What I eventually figured out that I could just create my own texture from the layer's source image, then ask the layer which part of the texture the sprite should use:
CCTexture2D *tex = [[CCTextureCache sharedTextureCache] addImage:playLayer.tileset.sourceImage];
// Since I'm doing an 8-bit style I want it crisp and pixel aligned.
[tex setAliasTexParameters];
// We don't know what the piece is yet so just use the first tile.
CGRect rect = [playLayer.tileset rectForGID:playLayer.tileset.firstGid];
CCSprite *nextPiece = [CCSprite spriteWithTexture:tex rect:rect];
nextPiece.anchorPoint = CGPointZero;
nextPiece.position = CGPointMake(400, 224);
[self addChild:nextPiece];Then in my pickNextPiece method I can just adjust the rectangle:
// Pick a random tile...
nextTileGid = (arc4random_uniform(7)) + 2;
// Then ask the layer where the texture is.
CGRect rect = [playLayer.tileset rectForGID:nextTileGid];
[nextPiece setTextureRectInPixels:rect rotated:NO untrimmedSize:rect.size];iOS 4 is a total waste of time on iPhone 3G
After two days of trying to use OS 4 on my iPhone 3G I'm sad to report that it's a very un-Apple like release. It's slower, it breaks a bunch of games and doesn't offer any compelling features. I'd go as far as to say they should probably have only released it for the iPhone 3GS.
