Q1 2019 Documentation enhancements

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Sample game

• start adding how to make a complete game at the end of each chapter.

New Topics

• RenderTexture
• ClippingNode
• Saving game data
  • User Defaults
  • SQLite
    • setup, creation, connecting, destruction
    • working with data
      • selecting data
      • updating data
      • inserting data
    • Use cases
      • tracking high scores
• Multi-resolution support. This isn’t covered at all.
• The new AudioEngine

Expand what we already cover

• TileMap
• 3D - there has been some confusion over Camera, should talk more about Camera, setting masks, what if you have more than one camera, etc.
  • Orbit camera
  • Mingo mentioned this to change the camera angle:

  Mat4 mat4;
  Mat4::createRotation(axis, angle, &mat4);
  camera->setAdditionalProjection(mat4);

• Physics - we should cover bitmasks more and how setting these effect contact events
• Refine our explanation of Node vs Sprite
• Refine our explanation of Anchor Point, users seen to get confused by this. Along with Parent/Child.
• release/retain/auto-release

Larger ideas

• procedural generated levels (think Spleunky..you should play that again!)

Best Practice

• Android device performance.
• Reference count?

UI Components to be added

• Layout
• ScrollView
• ListView
• PageView
• EditBox
• WebView
• VideoPlayer
• UIWidget
• UIImageView
• UIText
• UITextAtlas
• UITextBMFont
• UIRichText
• UIRadioButton
• UIHBox & UIVBox & UIRelativeBox

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