Mechanism of Loading Resources

• Mechanism of Loading Resources
  • 1. Distributed strategy
    • 1.1. Developer guilde
    • 1.2. Notes
  • 2. Centralized strategy
    • 2.1. Why use a different mechanism than cocos2d-iphone
    • 2.2. What is the new mechanism
    • 2.3. Developer guide
    • 2.5. Notes

There are two different mechanisms of loading resources since cocos2d-2.1beta3-x-2.1.1:

• distributed strategy
  This strategy is used in CocosBuilder. It put all retina resources into different directories. We will describe it in detail following.
• centralized strategy
  This strategy put all retina resources into a separate directory.

Don't use two strategies together. If your project is not created by CocosBuilder. I sugget you use centralized strategy. Just use CCFileUtils::setSearchPath() (setResourceDirectory is deprecated) to set searching paths.

1. Distributed strategy

This strategy is used in cocos2d-iphone and CocosBuilder. The resource directory looks like