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  • 30 Mar, 2012
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  In fact, the real hard part to swallow for game editors is the fact that the final user can steal all art assets.

  Apart from that, it's going to be mainstream in a few years...

• • Pode
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  • 30 Mar, 2012
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  Potato: WebGL is going to be available for regulard web views in the close future, because it's already available for iAds (which are nothing more than glorified UIWebView).

  It's fun to notice that everybody liked to bash Flash, and realize now that it can do lot of things that are not possible without it for the moment <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />.

  However, Apple knows that if they allow WebGL on regular WebView, everybody is going to use it, abuse it (heck, I can even envision some GPGPU with it using shaders), and it's going to give bad user experience, and drain the battery fast. And if there's something Apple value more than every other technical consideration for their smarphone, it's the "public perception". They prefer to cripple some functionnalities but have the public thinks "hey, it's cool and shiny".

  And about the 30% cut, believe me, every time a coder is skipping the AppStore and putting is webapp on the net directly without Apple AppStore involvment, they are happy and gain money ! (if they could, they would shut the store and drive everybody on the web - the AppStore is subsidized by Apple to sell hardware. That's what Apple is : a hardware company).

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  • 29 Mar, 2012
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  Lord : OK. So if you want to inject images in a Sprite, you can use the behavior I gave the link to.

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  • 29 Mar, 2012
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  septeven : as FrenchYann would say :

  YOU NEED TO MAKE PEOPLE DREAM ! <img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0" align="middle" />.

  Apart from that, I would love to test them, but I lost my jailbreak with the latest iOS update...

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  • 29 Mar, 2012
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  Kyatric : what's interesting with BlueStacks, is its ability to run an Android environment on your desktop computer.

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  • 29 Mar, 2012
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  Lord : oh Lord ! <img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0" align="middle">

  As I said in the other thread, there a some bugs with the HTML Pack (I'm not their initial author, I just released some modifications, since JesseJoh is busy). I'm going to try to check that next week.

  And for your question about injecting image into C2 Sprite, you can use that : http://www.scirra.com/forum/behavior-inject-base64-string-as-sprite-image_topic50604_post318814.html (it's not very useful to inject web content in a Sprite, but it useful for an image. But if you have a use case, I can think about that).

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  • 29 Mar, 2012
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  — : I need to iron some bugs on those plugin (at the beginning, they aren't mine, I just choose to continue their development). I'm a bit overcharged with work this week, but I'm going to try to fix that next week.

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  • 28 Mar, 2012
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  Ashley : isn't it possible to use appMobi's directCanvas in PhoneGap ? (as I can see there : http://www.appmobi.com/?q=node/153)

• • Pode
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  • 28 Mar, 2012
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  <font color="red">New build : You can now specify the width/height of the container when loading the image. The refresh should also work better. The demo is updated !

  Plugin : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/InjectImage/pode_injectImage.0.2.zip

  .capx : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/InjectImage/InjectImage.0.2.capx

  </font>

  <font color="blue">Edit : added this info : you can also directly inject the URL of an image, instead of a base64 string !</font>

  Since you can extract current Image (http://www.scirra.com/forum/behavior-extract-sprite-to-base64-string_topic50577.html), why not inject Image ? <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle">

  <img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/InjectImage/demo.png" border="0">

  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/InjectImage/index.html

  For the moment, you can inject base64 string, and it's going to replace the current Sprite image's texture.

  .capx : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/InjectImage/InjectImage.capx

  Plugin : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/InjectImage/pode_injectImage.0.1.zip

  <font color="red">BEWARE !! The collision polygon used is stilll the one from the first Sprite ! So for the moment, if you use collisions, and want that everything goes smooth, keep injecting images of roughly the same shape !</font>

  <font color="blue">If you don't use collisions, you don't care about that anyway <img src="smileys/smiley2.gif" border="0" align="middle"></font>

  I'm going to provide a way to specify a new polygon in a new release...

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• • Pode
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  • 28 Mar, 2012
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  SoldjahBoy : since a long time <img src="smileys/smiley2.gif" border="0" align="middle" />.

  Technically, you are compiling flex code in ObjC code, allowing you to use "flash" on iOS. The Starling framework is powerful, allowing you to use 2D bitmap accelerated by the GPU (since they are 3D textured quads, in fact).

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  • 28 Mar, 2012
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  Joe7 : great ! <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

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  • 27 Mar, 2012
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  Joe7: okaaay ! I didn't understood <img src="smileys/smiley2.gif" border="0" align="middle" />. For the plugin part (I suppose you are thinking about "Save File"), I need to add the "save binary" method to help you.

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  • 27 Mar, 2012
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  Really nice plugin, Joe7 !

  There's something I don't understand, though : what's the use of the php/Ajax part ?

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  • 27 Mar, 2012
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  A quick and simple behavior to retrieve the current frame Sprite as a base64 string. Useful to communicate between the game and the index.html or various hosting services.

  <img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/ExtractImage/demo.png" border="0">

  For the moment, it works with "Sprite" plugin, or plugin with a textured image. Things using internally a canvas don't work (for example R0j0hound's Canvas). I can add that, but it's going to be per-plugin specific.

  .capx : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/ExtractImage/ExtractImage1.capx

  Demo : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/ExtractImage/index.html

  Behavior : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/ExtractImage/pode_extractImage.0.1.zip

  Edit : you can pair it with http://www.scirra.com/forum/topic50604_post318757.html

• • Pode
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  • 27 Mar, 2012
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  Here's a quick demo for a plugin I'm going to release today or tomorrow : QR Code Generator !

  <img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/QRCodeDemo/demo.png" border="0">

  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/QRCodeDemo/index.html

  The idea is to give a string to the plugin, and it generate back for you a DataMatrix image. It can be useful for game creators who wants to let people continue their game on their smartphone, for example, but want to avoid people typing the full URL on the tiny onscreen keyboard...