The new Cocos Creator 3.8.0 engine will be released soon. If you have not used the Cocos Creator engine, this article will take you from the engine download, installation, to running the game source code. It only takes 3 minutes to complete. Let's Go!
01Download Cocos Dashboard
Open the browser, enter the Cocos Store resource mall, and find a game project such as "Cyberpunk", which is an RTS free 3D shooting project officially provided by the Cocos engine.
Click the [Get] button on the right to register and log in to your Cocos account.
Enter the account password and click [Login], and it will automatically return to the resource page after success.
Then click the [Get] button and it will change to [Create New Item].
Continue to click the button, and you will be reminded to download Cocos Dashboard.
Click the text link to go to the official website to download the Cocos engine, download and install the Cocos Dashboard.
Let me briefly talk about what is Cocos Dashboard?
Cocos Dashboard is a tool for downloading and managing game engine versions, game projects, and downloading game resources in Cocos Mall.
Pay attention to the relationship between Cocos Dashboard, Cocos Creator engine, Cocos Store and projects.
02 Download the game source code
After the Dashboard is downloaded, install and run it directly. Start the Dashboard and log in to your Cocos account.
The default language of Cocos Dashboard is English. You can click the gear in the upper right corner to enter: Settings->Language, which can be set to Simplified Chinese.
Click the [Back] button in the lower right corner to save and return, and return to the previous Web page and click [Create New Project] again.
In the pop-up prompt box, click [Open Cocos Dashboard].
The Dashboard will be invoked immediately and navigate to the Cyberpunk source project.
Click [Create New Project] again in the Dashboard to set the download location, and click OK to start the download.
The game looks like 380M, it will take a while. You can learn about project-related technical points, operating instructions, copyright notices, and other information through resource descriptions.
Back to the top of the resource, here are two important points:
The project engine is Cocos Creator 3.7.1
It also supports compiling and running in Android, iOS, and HTML5 environments
After downloading, click to open the project, then he prompts us that the editor version does not exist, let's click confirm first.
Well! How can this happen?
Oh, we only downloaded the Dashboard and the game source code before, but also the real game development tools. That is, the engine editor.
Just like you use Word in office to open doc files or docx files, you need to use the 3.7.1 engine editor version to open this cyberpunk game project.
OK, let's download the game engine!
03 Download Engine Editor
Go back to Dasboard and click on the left sidebar - editor, click on the lower right corner to download the editor.
Find the engine version you need, here we choose 3.7.1, click to download.
Then the software agreement will pop up, click to agree.
Wait for the download to complete and the decompression to complete.
04 Run the project
Go back to Dasboard - Projects, and you will see the Cocos Cyberpunk project.
Click on the project, Dasboard will use the corresponding engine version, which is 3.7.1 to open the project. It takes a while, the project is a bit big, and the engine is loading modules, codes, models and other resources.
OK! The source code is loaded, and we are only one step away from success.
Have you been intimidated by the window interface of the engine? Don't worry, first expand the assets directory of the resource manager, double-click the initial game-scene-start scene, and click the run button at the top of the editor and in the middle.
Go ahead and experience it!
05 Epilogue
There are a large number of game source codes, plug-in tools, and art models on the Cocos Store. It is an excellent place to learn to develop games and obtain game resources.
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