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How do you incorporate WKInterfaceSKScene into a watchOS Starter Template App?
I'm trying to create a Apple Watch game using Xcode 14.2 and watchOS 9. Getting started creating a watchOS App seems pretty straight forward, and getting started creating a game project via the starter template seems easy enough. Trying to put these two together though doesn't seem to work (or is not straight foward). The documentation specifies limitations on what libraries can be used with watchOS noting WKInterfaceSKScene, but doesn't give any specific examples of how to start out a WatchOS project using this. Additionally nearly every online tutorial that I'm able to find uses Storyboards to create a watchOS game, which does not seem to be supported in the latest version of watchOS or Xcode. Can anyone provide example starter code using the watchOS App project starter that that loads with a small colored square on the screen that moves from left to right using the WKInterfaceSKScene library? I've tried the Apple documentation, asking ChatGPT for a sample or reference links, and various tutorials on YouTube and elsewhere.
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Feb ’23
CIFilter + SpriteKit broken behavior on iOS 16
Hello there 👋 I've noticed a different behavior between iOS 15 and iOS 16 using CIFilter and SpriteKit. Here is a sample code where I want to display a text and apply a blurry effect on the same text in the back of it. Here is the expected behavior (iOS 15): And the broken behavior on iOS 16: It looks like the text is rotated around the x-axis and way too deep. Here is the sample code: import UIKit import SpriteKit class ViewController: UIViewController {     var skView: SKView?     var scene: SKScene?     override func viewDidLoad() {         super.viewDidLoad()         skView = SKView(frame: view.frame)         scene = SKScene(size: skView?.bounds.size ?? .zero)         scene?.backgroundColor = UIColor.red         view.addSubview(skView!)         skView!.presentScene(scene)         let neonNode = SKNode()         let glowNode = SKEffectNode()         glowNode.shouldEnableEffects = true         glowNode.shouldRasterize = true         let blurFilter = CIFilter(name: "CIGaussianBlur")         blurFilter?.setValue(20, forKey: kCIInputRadiusKey)         glowNode.filter = blurFilter         glowNode.blendMode = .alpha         let labelNode = SKLabelNode(text: "MOJO")         labelNode.fontName = "HelveticaNeue-Medium"         labelNode.fontSize = 60         let labelNodeCopy = labelNode.copy() as! SKLabelNode         glowNode.addChild(labelNode)         neonNode.addChild(glowNode)         neonNode.addChild(labelNodeCopy)         neonNode.position = CGPoint(x: 200, y: 200)         scene?.addChild(neonNode) } }
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Sep ’22
Sudden error being logged continuously in XCode console
I've an app I've been working on for quite some time now. It uses SpriteKit. The windows with the scenes in them are generated programmatically. All of a sudden, when it's up and running through XCode, the console throws out a continuous stream of errors - probably in the order of 1 per second. The main one that makes up this stream is: 2022-03-07 20:07:38.765930+0000 My*App[8461:465673] [] CurrentVBLDelta returned 0 for display 1 -- ignoring unreasonable value But others that appear slightly less frequently are: 2022-03-07 20:07:38.447800+0000 My*App[8461:465143] Metal GPU Frame Capture Enabled 2022-03-07 20:07:38.448070+0000 My*App[8461:465143] Metal API Validation Enabled 2022-03-07 20:07:38.613097+0000 My*App[8461:465640] [] [0x7f9596053820] CVCGDisplayLink::setCurrentDisplay: 1 2022-03-07 20:07:38.613415+0000 My*App[8461:465640] [] [0x7f9596053820] Bad CurrentVBLDelta for display 1 is zero. defaulting to 60Hz. 2022-03-07 20:07:38.613442+0000 My*App[8461:465640] [] [0x7f9596053800] CVDisplayLinkCreateWithCGDisplays count: 1 [displayID[0]: 0x1] [CVCGDisplayLink: 0x7f9596053820] 2022-03-07 20:07:38.613467+0000 My*App[8461:465640] [] [0x7f9596053800] CVDisplayLinkStart 2022-03-07 20:07:38.613487+0000 My*App[8461:465640] [] [0x7f9596053820] CVDisplayLink::start 2022-03-07 20:07:38.613541+0000 My*App[8461:465640] [] [0x7f9596053800] CVDisplayLinkStart 2022-03-07 20:07:38.613575+0000 My*App[8461:465640] [] [0x7f9596053820] CVDisplayLink::start 2022-03-07 20:07:38.613634+0000 My*App[8461:465671] [] [0x600000c09f10] CVXTime::reset 2022-03-07 20:07:38.613718+0000 My*App[8461:465671] [] CurrentVBLDelta returned 0 for display 1 -- ignoring unreasonable value 2022-03-07 20:07:38.639810+0000 My*App[8461:465671] [] CurrentVBLDelta returned 0 for display 1 -- ignoring unreasonable value 2022-03-07 20:07:38.639887+0000 My*App[8461:465671] [] [0x7f9596053820] CVCGDisplayLink::getDisplayTimes display: 1 -- SLSDisplayGetCurrentVBLDelta returned 0 => generating fake times 2022-03-07 20:07:38.673702+0000 My*App[8461:465653] [] [0x7f9596053820] CVCGDisplayLink::setCurrentDisplay: 1 2022-03-07 20:07:38.673748+0000 My*App[8461:465653] [] [0x7f9596053820] CVDisplayLink::stop 2022-03-07 20:07:38.673862+0000 My*App[8461:465653] [] [0x7f9596053820] Bad CurrentVBLDelta for display 1 is zero. defaulting to 60Hz. 2022-03-07 20:07:38.673883+0000 My*App[8461:465653] [] [0x7f9596053820] CVDisplayLink::start I really don't know how else to describe this. I can only imagine having to hand over the entire project as lately I've only been working on the storyboard file so how would this affect it? To be honest the only change I can see is my upgrade to OSX 12.2.1. It's definitely something to do with SpriteKit since not initialising a window with a scene in it stops the errors from showing.
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Mar ’22
How to use GCVirtualController directly with SKScene?
GCVirtualController isn't displaying when used with SKScene class. The Virtual controllers appear but then it seems that they are obscured by the SKScene itself!? The documentation says that calling connect() will display the virtual controllers but I seem to be missing how to add the controllers to the SKScene? class GameScene: SKScene { private var _virtualController: Any? @available(iOS 15.0, *) public var virtualController: GCVirtualController? { get { return self._virtualController as? GCVirtualController } set { self._virtualController = newValue } } override func didMove(to view: SKView) { let background = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: ".jpg") background.zPosition = -1 addChild(background) let virtualConfig = GCVirtualController.Configuration() virtualConfig.elements = [GCInputLeftThumbstick, GCInputRightThumbstick, GCInputButtonA, GCInputButtonB] virtualController = GCVirtualController(configuration: virtualConfig) virtualController?.connect() } } I've also tried adding the virtual controllers in the UIViewController but this doesn't work either.
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Oct ’21