I’m a little lost here I’ve switched the game over to Landscape mode using glRotate and glOthof but i cant figure out how to get it to render properly it keeps stretching the image, is that suposed to happen

THX for all your Help, when my game is done I’m definitely giving you a shout out in the credits

Very helpful but I’m a little lost and I just have 2 questions, first how to I set this thing to landscape and second how can i move the little guy around with the joy stick instead of the accelerometer. (i see the code there for it, and I’ve watch Tutorial 11 twice but I just cant get it to work)

Thanks for any help that anyone can give.

Your not being dumb, part 2 is still missing in action. With the book I just didn’t get time to do it.

I’m planning on more tutorials once the book is out though.

Mike

Great Tutorials. Not sure if i am being dumb but dont seem to be able to find tutorial 10 part 2? Anyone point me in the right direction.

Andy

That’s pretty much what I thought :)

Simon

PS it’s a bug – one that probably isn’t in code for SLQ :-)

That’s pretty much what I thought :)

I just checked again and it’s not in the GameScene.

Simon

PS it’s a bug – one that probably still isn’t in code for SLQ :-)

Your right that anything created with alloc should be released when your done with it. This should be in the dealloc method for the GameScene so if its not then that is a bug.

As long as you released the original object after you added it to the NSArray, then just releasing the NSArray will also release the retain it has on all its objects. If this causes the objects to have a retain of 0 then they will be deleted. That is why it’s important to release the object after adding it to the array.

Adding an object to an NSArray will up its retain count to 2, as long as nothing else has also upped the count, so releasing the original object drops it to 1 which is then dropped to 0 when the array is deallocated.

Hope that makes sense.

Mike

I’m just going back over the code in your tutorial because I wanted to make sure I was cleaning up NSArray correctly. But I’m looking in the GameScene.m where you’re using a mutable array to hold your entity objects and I don’t see a dealloc anywhere?

Can you confirm that it’s a mistake? (As the array is set using alloc)

Could you also confirm whether i need to release each object and then the array. I assume that I’ll get a memory leak if I don’t do this.

Don’t mean to ask potentialy obvious questions, but I use your tuts as a base for my understanding so I get confused when things don’t seem to be how I think they should be, at which point doubt creeps in :-)

Thanks

Simon