iTorque 2D 1.4 Beta

UPDATE: iTorque 2D 1.4 Beta 2 Released (click link for change log)

Greetings iTorque 2D developers. As mentioned in our IRC Hour: Special Edition, we have a release plan for v1.4. In the past, we have not fully utilized our bug tracking system or solidified a proper release plan. That's changing (rejoice!) Here are our estimates:

- Week of May 10th: Beta
- Week of May 17th: Official QA
- Week of May 24th: Release (pending QA approval)

Note that I am using "week of" estimates, rather than solid dates. Why? We do not use hard dates to account for pending QA reports and development changes.

Well, it's here: the Week of May 10th. The iTorque 2D 1.4 Beta is ready for download. Just jump to your account and click the download section. The primary goal of 1.4 was to release a slew of new iPhone OS features exposed to iT2D via editors and scripts. Additionally, we spent some time making subtle usability improvements (yay level datablocks editor!).

CHECK OUT THIS THREAD FOR INSTRUCTIONS, BUG REPORTING, AND MORE RELEASE NOTES

We have a huge list of changes, which is why we have added new projects to show them off. While we are working on polishing the examples, finishing the docs, and fixing bugs, feast your eyes on the changes:

New Features

• Four new example projects
• Visual level datablocks editor
• Robust UIKit Support (iPhoneUIExample)
• Media Core support for movies and playing music from device library (iPhoneiPodExample)
• GPS Location (iPhoneLocationExample)
• Storekit Integration (iPhoneStoreKitExample)
• Social networking "manager", which allows for easy integration of 3rd party tech like OpenFeint
• New iDevice Settings section in editor, allows for toggling resolutions between iPhone, iPad, landscape, and portrait
• New iDevice Feature Builder, allows you to pick and choose what OS Features you want enabled for your app: MultiTouch, Location, P2P networking, StoreKit, and so on

Changes and Improvements

• Cleaned and updated iPhoneExample project to utilize new features and improved Xcode project
• Updated documentation
• Level Datablocks now managed through editor interface
• The 100x75 camera resolution is no longer default. Developer is expected to carefully manage device resolution settings along with iT2D camera editor.
• Updated setScreenMode bug based on Sven's instructions. Works for me now.
• Adding missing XCode projects
• Fixing iPad resolution on main.cs
• Adding Fixes for a proper resolution changing setup
• Adding proper XCode projects for each of the examples
• iTorque app no longer kills music that was playing before launch
• CADisplayLink optimisation support
• $pref::iPhone:: is now $pref::iDevice

Known Issues

• It appears some of the project executables were stripped during the packaging. Will update the beta with these shortly. For now you can copy the iTorque2DGame.app from the iPhoneExample and use that in each projectFiles directory for the apps. Sorry, about that.
• Arrows in certain projects do not cause ship to move (iPhoneExample). Script calls still work, most likely a compiler flag issue.
• Occasional resolution bugs when toggling between iPad and iPhone. This mainly applies when you are switching device resolutions on examples made for the iPhone. Be very careful when changing the camera resolution, as 100x75 is no longer the default and 1:1.
• Auto-rotate not implemented yet
• No iPad example yet
• Docs not fully updated
• Examples not fully polished
• Delete button on the editor does not properly remove the items. Clicking around suddenly pops all the removed ones back

Preview Screens

Level Datablocks Editor (replaces manual copying of datablocks)


New iDevice Settings (manage your device type and frameworks from editor)


GPS Location Example