[Cocos2d] Pausing

OneUglyRobot

Hi Spiners,

What's the best way to pause all spine actors, is there a global method, or do I need to set timescale to 0 on all actors?

Thanks

Søren

You could probably do something like

if(!pause)
state.update(delta);

So you just stop it from updating the skeleton each frame. I'm not a coder, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were better ways to do it.

OneUglyRobot

Is there not something that handles ALL spine actors? Or will I have to make my own support?

Søren

Why not just put all your update calls inside if(!pause) { ... } ?

Nate

The standard cocos2d update mechanism is used, so you can control updates however you do so in cocos2d. Worst case you use a subclass of CCSkeletonAnimation and adjust the update before calling super.

OneUglyRobot

I was using the pause and resume targets cocos2d actions. These don't seem to behave with Spine Runtimes.

//Pause
        m_pPausedTargets = [[NSSet alloc] initWithSet:[[[CCDirector sharedDirector] actionManager] pauseAllRunningActions]];

//Resume
        [[[CCDirector sharedDirector] actionManager] resumeTargets:m_pPausedTargets];

Nate

I'm guessing that is for actions. The Spine runtime uses the cocos2d update mechanism (scheduleUpdate). I'm not sure how that is paused?

OneUglyRobot

Thanks Nate, I'm still in the process of converting from SpriteBuilder, which does all it's anims using actions, and forgot the normal way!

Here's my solution for anyone interested

+ (void)pauseSchedulerAndActionsRecursive:(CCNode *)node _bPause:(bool)_bPause
{
    if (_bPause)
    {
        [node pauseSchedulerAndActions];
    }
    else
    {
        [node resumeSchedulerAndActions];
    }
    

for (CCNode *child in [node children]) 
{
    [self pauseSchedulerAndActionsRecursive:child _bPause:_bPause];
}
}