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USDZ with vertex color
Hello, I have a USDC file with vertex color (WITHOUT textures), and it displays perfectly in Preview. If I package it in a zip (without compression) and rename the resulting file to USDZ, I can see it without any issues in AVP and Mac. However, if I send it to an iPhone, the vertex color does not display. Is there anything else I need to do besides packaging the USDC without compression in a ZIP? Thank you very much.
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Jun ’24
Multiplayer testing with the new TabletopKit
Hey, Just watched and started investigating a new TabletopKit framework, which looks fantastic. I'm looking at how multiplayer can be tested. Found info about testing on multiple real devices here - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/tabletopkit/tabletopkitsample#Start-a-multiplayer-game-on-devices I wanted to ask about options for testing multiplayer on simulators, maybe with a simulator + a single real device. Unfortunately, having multiple VisionPros for indie development is unrealistic, so I hope there are ways to do it.
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Jun ’24
OpenGL ES support on Apple Silicon Simulators
Hey folks, I have a legacy game that is running OpenGL ES - and it no longer works on the simulators that are running Apple Silicon, ie iPhone 15 Pro, or the 13" iPads. And yes, i'm also running on Apple Silicon (M1 Max). The apps work fine on the actual devices, but the simulator crashes on any glDrawElements with a stack that looks like the following: I have not yet seen an announcement about this not working but i've seen mention in other apps of stopping to support GL (https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-native/issues/2351) Can anyone shed some light? I'm obviously going to try to fix it, or find a recent sample app from which to start to see what might be up. Or move to metal, but i hadn't bargained for that level of effort atm ;) Any suggestions appreciated!
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Jun ’24
Placing text over images
What is the best way to display text over images - I'd like the image to fade to white underneath the text so that the text is easier to read since I have no control over the contents of the images. I thought about having a second label behind the actual label with the same text in a slightly larger font and white color. but I'd rather have it be a gradual fading of the image just under the text rather than what looks like 3D text. Any suggestions?
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Jun ’24
Problem with setNeedsDisplay:
Hi, with the default values the rotation take place but changing the value not. I bind a button to a slider action: -(IBAction)rotateXAction:(id)sender { NSLog(@"%@ \n",sender); BOOL yn = YES; _rotationX = [_sliderX intValue]; if(yn) printf("rotationX %d \n",_rotationX); // value o.k [self setNeedsDisplay:YES]; } The drawRect: will not be called. What is wrong with my code, please tell me. Uwe
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Jun ’24
I'm trying to create a Magic Wand Selection Tool
So I have a class that does the selection but what I get back is a total mess. Can anyone help me with the code or possibly point me at an example class that performs a magic wand selection like in photoshop? Below is my current Code but I've also attempted to use metal and I've gotten an identical result in the same amount of time var red1: CGFloat = 0 var green1: CGFloat = 0 var blue1: CGFloat = 0 var alpha1: CGFloat = 0 selectedColor.getRed(&red1, green: &green1, blue: &blue1, alpha: &alpha1) var red2: CGFloat = 0 var green2: CGFloat = 0 var blue2: CGFloat = 0 var alpha2: CGFloat = 0 pixelColor.getRed(&red2, green: &green2, blue: &blue2, alpha: &alpha2) let tolerance = CGFloat(tolerance) return abs(red1 - red2) < tolerance && abs(green1 - green2) < tolerance && abs(blue1 - blue2) < tolerance && abs(alpha1 - alpha2) < tolerance } func getPixelData(from image: UIImage) -> [UInt8]? { guard let cgImage = image.cgImage else { return nil } let width = Int(cgImage.width) let height = Int(cgImage.height) let bytesPerPixel = 4 let bytesPerRow = bytesPerPixel * width let bitsPerComponent = 8 let bitmapInfo = CGImageAlphaInfo.premultipliedLast.rawValue var pixelData = [UInt8](repeating: 0, count: width * height * bytesPerPixel) guard let context = CGContext(data: &pixelData, width: width, height: height, bitsPerComponent: bitsPerComponent, bytesPerRow: bytesPerRow, space: CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB(), bitmapInfo: bitmapInfo) else { return nil } context.draw(cgImage, in: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: width, height: height)) return pixelData } func performMagicWandSelection(inputImage: UIImage, selectedColor: UIColor, tolerance: Float) -> UIBezierPath? { guard let pixelData = getPixelData(from: inputImage) else { return nil } let width = Int(inputImage.size.width) let height = Int(inputImage.size.height) let bytesPerPixel = 4 let path = UIBezierPath() var isDrawing = false for y in 0..<height { for x in 0..<width { let index = (y * width + x) * bytesPerPixel let pixelColor = UIColor( red: CGFloat(pixelData[index]) / 255.0, green: CGFloat(pixelData[index + 1]) / 255.0, blue: CGFloat(pixelData[index + 2]) / 255.0, alpha: CGFloat(pixelData[index + 3]) / 255.0) if colorMatches(selectedColor: selectedColor, pixelColor: pixelColor, tolerance: tolerance) { let point = CGPoint(x: x, y: y) if !isDrawing { path.move(to: point) isDrawing = true } else { path.addLine(to: point) } } else { if isDrawing { path.close() isDrawing = false } } } } if isDrawing { path.close() } return path }
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May ’24
Mistake in OpenGLView:drawRect
I rewrite an old project since OpenGL is deprecated and the downgrade to High Sierra goes with the lost of the old project. Here is the drawRect: - (void)drawRect:(NSRect)dirtyRect { [super drawRect:dirtyRect]; if(backgroundColor == 1) glClearColor(0.95f, 1.0, 1.0f, 1.0); else glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f); glClear (GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT); glLoadIdentity(); glTranslatef(0.0 ,0.0, -10.0); // After mistake I wrote PushMatrix() glTranslatef(-0.01 ,-0.01, -10.0); // Screen Shot 0 // glTranslatef(-0.25 ,-0.25, -10.0); Screen Shot 1 glLineWidth(1.0); glRotated(rotationX, 1, 0, 0); glRotated(rotationY, 0, 1, 0); glCallList(axes); // After mistake I wrote PopMatrix() // Axes Vertices of xx,y,z are 1.0 // With vertices +/-0.99 nothing is drawn [self glError]; [self.openGLContext flushBuffer]; } I hope you Accept my Text and hope you can help me ! Mit freundlichen Grüßen Uwe Screen Shot 0 Screen Shot 1
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May ’24
Crash after splash screen - latest gen ipads only
Hi, I've got a well established game in gamemaker, which seems to crash on latest gen ipads. In particular have been able to reproduce in ipad 11-inch M2 in the emulator. Game launches, shows the splash screen, and seems to crash as it's leaving it, but before launching the game itself, as such the log results are rather limited. I'm attaching what I can see from the crash, and hope anyone has a suggestion in what might be different in this model of the ipad to warrant this sort of crash. Any leads would be welcome. Thank you in advance.
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May ’24
GroundingShadowComponent tanks performance even when set to false
Working on a vision OS app. I've noticed that even when castsShadow is false, performance goes down the drain when there are more than a few dozen entities that have GroundingShadowComponent. I managed to hard crash the Vision Pro with about 200 or so entities that each had two ModelEntities with GroundingShadowComponent attached but set to castShadows = false. My solution is to add and remove the GroundingShadowComponent from entities as needed, but I thought maybe someone at Apple might want to look into this. I don't expect great performance with that many entities casting shadows, but I'd think turning the shadow off would effectively disable the component and not incur a performance penalty.
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May ’24
IOS issues... Guideline 4.3(a) - Design - Spam
Hey everyone, My game got rejected due to Guideline 4.3. Here's the gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb6uBUsOSDg Does anyone have experience dealing with Guideline 4.3 and can share some insights? I already appealed, explaining that my game has online multiplayer battles, but no response yet. Feeling frustrated after spending six months on this game. Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!
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May ’24
IOSurface objects aren't released in ScreenCaptureKit
I use ScreenCaptureKit, CoreVideo, CoreImage, CoreMedia frameworks to capture screenshots on macOS 14.0 and higher. Example of creating CGImageRef: CVImageBufferRef cvImageBufferRef = ..; CIImage* temporaryImage = [CIImage imageWithCVPixelBuffer:cvImageBufferRef]; CIContext* temporaryContext = [CIContext context]; CGImageRef imageRef = [temporaryContext createCGImage:temporaryImage fromRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, CVPixelBufferGetWidth(cvImageBufferRef), CVPixelBufferGetHeight(cvImageBufferRef))]; I have the next results of profiling with XCode Instruments Memory Leaks & Allocations: there is constantly increasing memory usage, but no memory leaks are detected, and there are many calls to create IOSurface objects, that have been never released. The most part of memory - All Anonymous VM - VM: IOSurface. The heaviest stack trace: [RPIOSurfaceObject initWithCoder:] [IOSurface initWithMachPort:] IOSurfaceClientLookupFromMachPort I don't have any of IOSurface objects created by myself. There are low-level calls to it. In Allocation List I can see many allocations of IOSurface objects, but there are no info about releasing it. Due to this info, how can I release them to avoid permanent increasing memory consumption?
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May ’24
Failed to perform GPU performance counter
Hi all, I am trying to measure the performce of my video game in iOS platform. After launching the debugger and caputre GPU workload (with "frame" selected as scope), I can not do performance profiling. The error message is: "Failed to enable shader profiler. (516)". And if I export the GPU trace and reopen it, the Xcode can not find any compatible devices connected. However, the same device used for capturing is connected. Device informations are: Mac device: MacBook Air M2, 2022 Mac OS version: Sonoma 14.4 XCode version: 15.2 (15C500b) mobile device: iPhone 13 Pro Max iOS version: 15.0 GPU performance counter can be performed using the same mobile device in my colleague's Mac. So I think there might be something wrong with my Xcode.
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May ’24
Store USDZ with SwiftData
I am trying to store usdz files with SwiftData for now. I am converting usdz to data, then storing it with SwiftData My model import Foundation import SwiftData import SwiftUI @Model class Item { var name: String @Attribute(.externalStorage) var usdz: Data? = nil var id: String init(name: String, usdz: Data? = nil) { self.id = UUID().uuidString self.name = name self.usdz = usdz } } My function to convert usdz to data. I am currently a local usdz just to test if it is going to work. func usdzData() -> Data? { do { guard let usdzURL = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "tv_retro", withExtension: "usdz") else { fatalError("Unable to find USDZ file in the bundle.") } let usdzData = try Data(contentsOf: usdzURL) return usdzData } catch { print("Error loading USDZ file: \(error)") } return nil } Loading the items @Query private var items: [Item] ... var body: some View { ... ForEach(items) { item in HStack { Model3D(?????) { model in model .resizable() .scaledToFit() } placeholder: { ProgressView() } } } ... } How can I load the Model3D? I have tried: Model3D(data: item.usdz) Gives me the errors: Cannot convert value of type '[Item]' to expected argument type 'Binding<C>' Generic parameter 'C' could not be inferred Both errors are giving in the ForEach. I am able to print the content inside item: ForEach(items) { item in HStack { Text("\(item.name)") Text("\(item.usdz)") } } This above works fine for me. The item.usdz prints something like Optional(10954341 bytes) I would like to know 2 things: Is this the correct way to save usdz files into SwiftData? Or should I use FileManager? If so, how should I do that? Also how can I get the usdz from the storage (SwiftData) to my code and use it into Model3D?
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May ’24
Error When Building Game Porting Toolkit 1.1
Does anyone know what this might be? /private/tmp/game-porting-toolkit-20240516-2293-dagdsr/wine/dlls/wow64cpu/cpu.c:356:18: error: assignment to 'DWORD64' {aka 'long long unsigned int'} from 'PVOID' {aka 'void '} makes integer from pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] 356 | context->Rsp = NtCurrentTeb()->TlsSlots[2]; / WOW64_TLS_WINEHYBRID_RESERVED_R14 */ | ^ make: *** [dlls/wow64cpu/cpu.cross.o] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... Path: /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/apple/homebrew-apple/Formula/game-porting-toolkit.rb ==> Configuration HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.3.0 ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew HEAD: 8378cc825d83acffd125fb0fec041793df378a57 Last commit: 3 days ago Core tap JSON: 17 May 05:28 UTC Core cask tap JSON: 17 May 05:28 UTC HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: [] HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 10 Homebrew Ruby: 3.1.4 => /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/3.1.4/bin/ruby CPU: 10-core 64-bit westmere Clang: 15.0.0 build 1500 Git: 2.39.3 => /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/git Curl: 8.4.0 => /usr/bin/curl macOS: 14.4.1-x86_64 CLT: 15.1.0.0.1.1700200546 Xcode: 15.1 => /Users/raiderpig/Downloads/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer Rosetta 2: true
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May ’24
Specific barcode is not recognized
Hi, I face a problem that I could not scan a specific Code 39 barcode with Vision framework. We have multiple barcode in a label and almost all Code 39 can be scanned, but not for specific one. One more information, regardless the one that is not recognized with Vision can be read by a general barcode scanner. Have anyone faced similar situation? Is there unique condition to make it hard to scan the barcode when using Vision?(size, intensity, etc) Regards,
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May ’24
in-app purchase with free tier
Hi, I am developing Cordova apps/games with in-app purchase products as well as an initial product as non-paid (Free) tier: New users will be able to play freely for a set of games as default at the beginning. Then, if they would like to have more games with different set of attributes or themes, they can add more games with in-app purchases. It is similar to a game called Subway Surfers in App Store I would play in the past. A new player initiates games as Free Tier. After, let us say 3 games, the user is asked if he/she would like to have more games to play with different scenes/themes in different Tiers, in addition to their disposal: Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3. For example Tier 1 adds 3 more games into the Free Tier games so they can play 6 games in the set;Tier 2 add 6 more games and so 9 games they can play and so on. Each individual game in their set is a variant of others in differing Tiers. If they don't wish and play Free Tier games, they may play them too, with limited set of themes but infinite times. If a user chooses a tier, let us say Tier 1, and when they play 6 games, they are asked if they would like advance to Tier 2 or Tier 3. If they choose Tier 2, as they complete the respective games they will be asked for Tier 3. However, if they don't wish to advance, again they can play current Tier games as many times as they wish. It is like non-subscription apps then converted to subscription-based ones. In App Store Connect, I created a number of products for in-app purchases for an app. How I can deliver this Free Tier games in the app and let users try it and allow them to choose in-app purchase products available in AppStore Connect. I would appreciate response and support. Best Lexxyacc
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May ’24
CGContextDrawLayerAtPoint Problems in Mac OS Sonoma
My app stopped working in Mac OS Sonoma 14.0 and I quickly isolated the problem to CGContextDrawLayerAtPoint. Two issues, first of all about 1/2 the time there was no data copied (the updated CGLayer did not show up in the window). Then the app would crash iin libswiftCore.dylib after about 5 updates with a very unusual message: "Fatal error: Duplicate keys of type 'DisplayList' were found in a Dictionary. This usually means either that the type violates Hashable's requirements, or that members of such a dictionary were mutated after insertion". This behavior showed up in builds built with XCode 13 on a Mac OS Montery platform, as well as XCode 15 on Mac OS Ventura when the app was run on Sonoma. My app uses a very traditional method to create an off-screen graphics context in drawRect: - (void)drawRect:(NSRect)dirtyRect { // Obtain context from the current NSGraphicsContext ... viewNSContext = [NSGraphicsContext currentContext]; viewCGContext = (CGContextRef)[viewNSContext graphicsPort]; drawingLayer = CGLayerCreateWithContext(viewCGContext, size, NULL); So the exact details of the off-screen drawing area were based upon the characteristics of the window being drawn to. Fortunately the work-around was very easy. By creating a custom CGBitmapContext everything was resolved. My drawing requirements are very basic, so a simple 32-bit RGB off-screen context was adequate. colorSpaceRef = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB(); bitMapContextRef = CGBitmapContextCreate(NULL, (int) rintf(size.width), (int) rintf(size.height), 8, 0, colorSpaceRef, kCGImageAlphaNoneSkipLast); drawingLayer = CGLayerCreateWithContext(bitMapContextRef, size, NULL); Once I changed to a bitmap offscreen context, problem resolved. In my case I verified that the portion of the window that was updated with the CGContextDrawLayerAtPoint was indeed restricted to the dirty part of the view rectangle, at least in Sonoma 14.5. Hope this helps someone else searching for the issue, as I found nothing in the Forums or online.
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