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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