"device organiser is in xcode - menu bar - window - organizer"
Is it ? That's great, but like I was saying that all means nothing to me, should I be organizing devices now instead of looking for the 'viewer' or 'provisioning profiles' or whatever ?
I would like to be able to test my GS projects on my iPad, should I now make some certificates ? or some provisioning profiles ? or find this viewer (where do I find it) or do I first need to be organizing devices with Xcode (I have Xcode 4.2) . . . . ?
No . . . . no luck with Xcode and 'organizing devices' (to be honest I have no clue what I am doing !! Lol).
: )
Right, let's try TSB's video once more, the one Ace posted, I will simply ignore the fact that I haven't got a 'viewer' ? . . . let's see how far I get . . .
'You've downloaded the viewer' - NO! never heard of it.
You've already got Xcode" - YES !!
Find iPad serial number - YES !!
Add devices - name it - give it your serial number - YES !!
Provisioning > Development > make new profile - NO, the bit where TSB checks the certificates bit is where this plan comes to the end of the road, I have no check box, just something saying "Please create a Development Certificate" . . .
Ok, I think I have a certificate ? The development tab of the provisioning portal of the developer website is telling me I need WWDR intermediate certificate installed ?
Ok, got a WWDR, it's on my desktop, just sat there looking at me, I might take a screen shot, put it into Photoshop and paint some eyes onto it, not sure else what to do with it, there were no further clues on the provisioning portal ?
It's just so dense with things you have to do, I have followed TSBs video, but at every juncture there is some crazy XXXXXX thing that needs to be provisioned or debowled or certified or downloaded or uploaded or something.
I have tried to pass my profile (?) to my iPad (I think) but it's telling me that "no iOS Distribution Certificate Found" . . . . again something new that I have never heard of - is not mentioned in anyone's guides/tutorials and has brought the process to a grinding halt.
Is there an official guide to doing all this either from Apple or GS - or is it a case of gathering up what bits and pieces of information you can from all the various sources . . . ?
Cheers beefy !! I got there in the end, it was all very confusing, I nearly lost the plot a few times, the police and fire brigade were called at one point and around 3:30am I lost the will to live, but then I thought of all those happy faces laughing as they played my bug ridden 8fps iPad gaming disaster SuperKongBalls9-HD™ - it was enough to spur me on towards viewerprovisioningcertificatingiOSiPad victory.
Once again thanks to everyone who threw various parts of the jigsaw at me, I caught them all in the end.
@Tynan great to hear - you will also have a far better understanding if you figured most out for yourself - performance of the creator has dropped recently but rendering was always far better on device.
"great to hear - you will also have a far better understanding if you figured most out for yourself"
I have to be honest here, as much as I like understanding the underlying principles of a system - this one was a mystery to me - I just used a little common sense, kept pressing buttons that look like they needed pressing and tried everything until it all worked, I still don't know what a WWDR is, why I have got one sat on the desktop and a million other questions - in reality if I were to speak to someone in a week and they were to ask how to set all this up I would have to say - in all honesty - I don't really have a clue, but if you watch enough videos and tutorials and press enough buttons then 8 times out of 10 you might get lucky and it all works.
Someone needs to put together a decent and comprehensive tutorial on this, a tutorial that assumes the viewer knows nothing and needs to be taken through each step slowly and carefully, no good telling someone "now go get your certificates" or "once you have your viewer installed . . . " if they have no clue what a viewer or a certificate might be or where you get them from or what to do with them once you have worked out where to get them from or even why you need them.
(note: to anyone at my level of idiocy reading this - the 'viewer' is nothing to do with Apple or iPads or Xcode at all, it is a GS product, available for free from the GS website - Google "Gamesalad viewer").
TSB, Leonard, Ace, yourself and many others make all this much easier by supplying clues and hints as to what to do, but even the best intentioned tutorial will fail if it lacks comprehensibility when faced with an idiot like me. Someone needs to strip their system down to the waist and walk folk through button press by button press with no stage assumed to have been done prior to the video / tutorial.
GS is aimed at non-programmers, designers, games enthusiasts, artists, sound designers, creatives and so on - the kind of people who might not be up to speed on non-parity-cross-platform-privisioning-profiled-certificated-ISP-restricted-16bit-encrypted-platform-independant-univeral-permission-structures !
Anyhow, it's simply excellent to be able to proof ideas on the actual device, makes me realise - even more - quite how brilliant GS actually is.
Right . . . . back to photoshop . . . . need more hair for SuperKongBalls9-HD™
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edited January 2012
I hear they're working on the quantum laser version of non-parity-cross-platform-provisioning-profiled-certificated-ISP-restricted-16bit-encrypted-platform-independent-universal-permission-structures; should be ready by lunchtime next week...
Good to hear they are keeping the lazer 16bit and encrypted , got myself burnt on a non-encrypted 8bit lazer back in the 1990s, don't want to go back there.
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"device organiser is in xcode - menu bar - window - organizer"
Is it ? That's great, but like I was saying that all means nothing to me, should I be organizing devices now instead of looking for the 'viewer' or 'provisioning profiles' or whatever ?
Ahhhhhhhhh !!!
This is what I have:
iOS 5.0.1
OSX 10.6.8
Apple Developer account
Xcode 4.2
iTunes 10.5.2
I would like to be able to test my GS projects on my iPad, should I now make some certificates ? or some provisioning profiles ? or find this viewer (where do I find it) or do I first need to be organizing devices with Xcode (I have Xcode 4.2) . . . . ?
: )
Right, let's try TSB's video once more, the one Ace posted, I will simply ignore the fact that I haven't got a 'viewer' ? . . . let's see how far I get . . .
(wish me luck !!!)
'You've downloaded the viewer' - NO! never heard of it.
You've already got Xcode" - YES !!
Find iPad serial number - YES !!
Add devices - name it - give it your serial number - YES !!
Provisioning > Development > make new profile - NO, the bit where TSB checks the certificates bit is where this plan comes to the end of the road, I have no check box, just something saying "Please create a Development Certificate" . . .
Just that.
Do I need one of those too ?
It's just so dense with things you have to do, I have followed TSBs video, but at every juncture there is some crazy XXXXXX thing that needs to be provisioned or debowled or certified or downloaded or uploaded or something.
I have tried to pass my profile (?) to my iPad (I think) but it's telling me that "no iOS Distribution Certificate Found" . . . . again something new that I have never heard of - is not mentioned in anyone's guides/tutorials and has brought the process to a grinding halt.
Is there an official guide to doing all this either from Apple or GS - or is it a case of gathering up what bits and pieces of information you can from all the various sources . . . ?
After a difficult birth I am proud to announce that I am now the father of a GS viewer running iPad !
Thanks to everyone who helped.
I am now going to sleep for a week.
Cheers beefy !! I got there in the end, it was all very confusing, I nearly lost the plot a few times, the police and fire brigade were called at one point and around 3:30am I lost the will to live, but then I thought of all those happy faces laughing as they played my bug ridden 8fps iPad gaming disaster SuperKongBalls9-HD™ - it was enough to spur me on towards viewerprovisioningcertificatingiOSiPad victory.
Once again thanks to everyone who threw various parts of the jigsaw at me, I caught them all in the end.
@-) ~X( 8-X 8-}
Oddly some of the things that my Mac (27 inch iMac / 16GB ram) struggled with the iPad takes in its stride.
Good stuff Gamesalad !
"great to hear - you will also have a far better understanding if you figured most out for yourself"
I have to be honest here, as much as I like understanding the underlying principles of a system - this one was a mystery to me - I just used a little common sense, kept pressing buttons that look like they needed pressing and tried everything until it all worked, I still don't know what a WWDR is, why I have got one sat on the desktop and a million other questions - in reality if I were to speak to someone in a week and they were to ask how to set all this up I would have to say - in all honesty - I don't really have a clue, but if you watch enough videos and tutorials and press enough buttons then 8 times out of 10 you might get lucky and it all works.
Someone needs to put together a decent and comprehensive tutorial on this, a tutorial that assumes the viewer knows nothing and needs to be taken through each step slowly and carefully, no good telling someone "now go get your certificates" or "once you have your viewer installed . . . " if they have no clue what a viewer or a certificate might be or where you get them from or what to do with them once you have worked out where to get them from or even why you need them.
(note: to anyone at my level of idiocy reading this - the 'viewer' is nothing to do with Apple or iPads or Xcode at all, it is a GS product, available for free from the GS website - Google "Gamesalad viewer").
TSB, Leonard, Ace, yourself and many others make all this much easier by supplying clues and hints as to what to do, but even the best intentioned tutorial will fail if it lacks comprehensibility when faced with an idiot like me. Someone needs to strip their system down to the waist and walk folk through button press by button press with no stage assumed to have been done prior to the video / tutorial.
GS is aimed at non-programmers, designers, games enthusiasts, artists, sound designers, creatives and so on - the kind of people who might not be up to speed on non-parity-cross-platform-privisioning-profiled-certificated-ISP-restricted-16bit-encrypted-platform-independant-univeral-permission-structures !
Anyhow, it's simply excellent to be able to proof ideas on the actual device, makes me realise - even more - quite how brilliant GS actually is.
Right . . . . back to photoshop . . . . need more hair for SuperKongBalls9-HD™
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Good to hear they are keeping the lazer 16bit and encrypted , got myself burnt on a non-encrypted 8bit lazer back in the 1990s, don't want to go back there.