iPhone publishing (Page 1 of 2)

iPhone is the best platform for indies to publish imo
Great news

yes, i didn't find the time to continue since this post, so it's still missing the sound and the touch input, but if you don't mind testing the in-progress version, I will post it tomorrow.

You can find the current xcode project in SVN branches/iPhonePublishing/ :

http://code.google.com/p/maratis/source … Publishing

Cool!

I can't find Common/MLoaders/MiOSImageLoader.h and Common/MLoaders/MiOSImageLoader.cpp. Where can I get these files from? I'm going to try for using MDevILLoader next.

Thank you so much! It worked!

Last edited by sakamoto (2011-04-20 23:29:54)

Anael,

First of all, great work, I feel this has the potential to evolve into something very special and unique. I like the flexibility you've built into it and how easy to understand the code is.

I was playing around with the iOS version yesterday and I made some improvements (mainly making it universal for iPhone/iPad/iPod) and a few other tweaks. I was wondering how I could contribute back to source so everyone can enjoy this.

I was planning on working on input this weekend. If this is something that would also help you, please let me know.

Thanks,
- Ricardo

Anaël,

I wouldn't mind having an SVN account and contributing regularly.

I'm planning on making some improvements (of course adding touch controls), and I'm pretty sure you would like those. I could also add motion (accelerometer/gyroscope) input.

I also want to create an exporter for Maya or XSI SoftImage to make it easier for our project and help out other people that need it.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks,
- Ricardo

skumancer added multi-touch and accelerometer support to the iPhone publishing example and to MSDK,
updates on svn : http://code.google.com/p/maratis/source/checkout

Thank you a lot

A look through the code led me to think "ACCEL_X", "ACCEL_Y", and "ACCEL_Z" might store accelerometer values, so I changed Text.lua to the following:

-- get objects
Text0 = getObject("Text0")
Text1 = getObject("Text1")

-- scene update
function onSceneUpdate()
    

mx = getAxis("ACCEL_X")
my = getAxis("ACCEL_Y")
mz = getAxis("ACCEL_Z")

    text = "x = " .. mx .. ", y = " .. my .. ", z = " .. mz
    setText(Text0, text)

    text2 = "testing accelerometer input"
    setText(Text1, text2)

end

Installation of the Text project on the iPhone results in a blue screen with no visible text. Maybe either the font's not rendering, or some other problem has occurred?

Thanks for any help or info.

Interesting. Thanks for the info!

I opened the Text.level file in Maratis and changed each text item to use GenR102.TTF.font instead of GenR102.TTF. They looked fine in Maratis, but again are invisible when compiled into an app with xcode and sent over to the iPhone.

After switching the text items to use the GenR102.TTF.font rather the .TTF, I tried duplicating one of the text items in Maratis. I moved the duplicate and noted that it was not visible -- the .font not rendering? I changed that text item to use the .TTF and it appeared, I then changed it back to use the .font and it remained visible. I'm not sure what this means.

I suppose if I can't get the text generators to work on the iPhone, maybe I can store the sensor input in variables in lua and somehow pass them to an NSLog command and read them in the xcode console? Though eventually I'd love to be able to display text, right now I'm just trying to see what the sensor values look like so I can decide how best to use them.

I'm impressed by the power built into Maratis and hope I can figure it out. The rendering speed and built-in physics engine are great. I'm curious whether anyone has developed apps that are available on Apple's app store using it.

Thanks again for developing Maratis, and for all your help.

Ah, I'll try adding those lines and files.

Is there a list somewhere of what Maratis features are and aren't yet supported on iOS? I'd be happy to start compiling one.

TTF font loading would be on the not supported list.

The StandardRenderer is also not supported in iOS? I got an error when I changed "FixedRenderer" in EAGLView.mm to "StandardRenderer".

I'm guessing the getTouchPosition(id)", "getLastTouchPosition(id)", "getTouchPhase(id) commands in iPhonePublishing aren't yet committed to svn, as I searched through the code for those strings and find nothing. I did see that a touchPoints dictionary is created in EAGLView.mm.