Drawing OpenGL primitives
Sometimes in 2D game development we need to make use of good old-fashioned OpenGL primitives. With these we can make minimaps, heads up displays, and special effects like bullet tracers and lightning blasts to name a few. In the following scene I've created a simple figure using all of the primitive drawing functions supplied by Cocos2d as well as one I've tweaked and added.
Getting ready
Please refer to the project RecipeCollection01 for full working code of this recipe.
How to do it...
Execute the following code:
/* Create a solid circle */ void ccDrawSolidCircle( CGPoint center, float r, float a, NSUInteger segs, BOOL drawLineToCenter) ...
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