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Cocos2d-x cookbook

You're reading from   Cocos2d-x cookbook Over 50 hands-on recipes to help you efficiently administer and maintain your games with Cocos2d-x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783284757
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Akihiro Matsuura Akihiro Matsuura
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Cocos2d-x FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Sprites 3. Working with Labels 4. Building Scenes and Layers 5. Creating GUIs 6. Playing Sounds 7. Working with Resource Files 8. Working with Hardware 9. Controlling Physics 10. Improving Games with Extra Features 11. Taking Advantages Index

Using Texture Packer


Texture Packer is a tool that can drag and drop images and publish. With the use of this tool, we can not only create sprite sheets, but also export multi sprite sheets. If there are a lot of sprites, then we need to use the command line tool when we create sprite sheets, encrypt them, and so on. In this recipe, you can use Texture Packer.

Getting ready

Texture Packer is a paid application. However, you can use the free trial version. If you don't have it, you can download it by visiting https://www.codeandweb.com/texturepacker

How to do it...

  1. You need to launch Texture Packer, after which you will see a blank window appear.

  2. In this recipe, we will use these sprites as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. You simply need to drag the images into the Texture Packer window and it will automatically read all the files and arrange them.

  4. And that's it. So let's publish the sprite sheet image and plist to click the publish button. That's how you can get the sprite sheet image and...

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