The following generates a prior definition warning from #include <__config>. But that has an ifndef in it. I'm in C++17 on Xcode latest (14.5). Is this documented anywhere? -D_LIBCPP_ENABLE_ASSERTIONS=1

I'm trying to update my projects to use Swift6, if I change the project settings to use Swift6 then my app crashes when I add a closure to the SCNAnimation animationDidStop property. The error is inside the SceneKit renderingQueue and indicates that the callback is being called on the wring queue. Maybe I need to do something in the code to fix this but I can't seem to make it work, maybe a SceneKit bug? If you create a new game template in Xcode using SceneKit and replace the contents of GameViewController.swift with the following you will see the app crash after it is launched. import UIKit import SceneKit class GameViewController: UIViewController { let player: SCNAnimationPlayer = { let a = CABasicAnimation(keyPath: "opacity") return SCNAnimationPlayer(animation: SCNAnimation(caAnimation: a)) }() override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() let scnView = self.view as! SCNView scnView.scene = SCNScene() // Change the project settings to use Swift6 // Setting this closure will then cause a _dispatch_assert_queue_fail // EXC_BREAKPOINT error in the scenekit.renderingQueue.SCNView queue, // the only thing on the stack is: // "%sBlock was %sexpected to execute on queue [%s (%p)]" player.animation.animationDidStop = { (a: SCNAnimation, b: SCNAnimatable, c: Bool) in print("stopped") } scnView.scene?.rootNode.addAnimationPlayer(player, forKey: nil) player.play() } }

I have various USDZ files in my visionOS app. Loading the USDZ files works quite well. I only have problems with the positioning of the 3D model. For example, I have a USDZ file that is displayed directly above me. I can't move the model or perform any other actions on it. If I sit on a chair or stand up again, the 3D model automatically moves with me. This is my source code for loading the USDZ files: struct ImmersiveView: View { @State var modelName: String @State private var loadedModel = Entity() var body: some View { RealityView { content in if let usdModel = try? await Entity(named: modelName) { print("====> \(modelName) : \(usdModel) <====") let bounds = usdModel.visualBounds(relativeTo: nil).extents usdModel.scale = SIMD3<Float>(1.0, 1.0, 1.0) usdModel.position = SIMD3<Float>(0.0, 0.0, 0.0) usdModel.components.set(CollisionComponent(shapes: [.generateBox(size: bounds)])) usdModel.components.set(HoverEffectComponent()) usdModel.components.set(InputTargetComponent()) loadedModel = usdModel content.add(usdModel) } } } } I only want the 3D models from the USDZ files to be displayed later, and later on, to be able to move them via gestures. Moving the models is step 2. First, I need to make sure the models are displayed correctly. What have I forgotten or done wrong?

I'm trying to change things mid game by replacing/adding existing equipment with other variants. For example, I'm wanting to change the board. (It could be just the board display/model.) I tried adding the equipment mid game but TabletopKit doesn't appear to render new items added once it initializes. I'm not sure if I'm just doing something wrong or if there's some trick to reset the renderer or something. One other option could be, is it possible to change the model or texture for an existing model entity?

Is it possible to join a TabletopKit Seat while using the VisionOS simulator? Seems in the simulator, I'm able to interact with the board's equipment as the floating simulated camera with a PlayerID, but none of my seats have PlayerIDs associated with them.

I have a legacy app that draws using OpenGL, in particular is draws lines using glLineStipple. This is on a Macbook Pro M3, but it also happens on and x86 based Mac. This causes the following messages to be output to the terminal the app was run from: FALLBACK (log once): Fallback to SW vertex for line stipple FALLBACK (log once): Fallback to SW vertex processing, m_disable_code: 2000 FALLBACK (log once): Fallback to SW vertex processing in drawCore, m_disable_code: 2000 Is there a way of suppressing these messages?

Is it possible with iOS 18 to use RealityView with world tracking but without the camera feed as background? With content.camera = .worldTracking the background is always the camera feed, and with content.camera = .virtual the device's position and orientation don't affect the view point. Is there a way to make a mixture of both? My use case is that my app "Encyclopedia GalacticAR" shows astronomical objects and a skybox (a huge sphere), like a VR view of planets, as you can see in the left image. Now that iOS 18 offers RealityView for iOS and iPadOS, I would like to make use of it, but I haven't found a way to display my skybox as environment, instead of the camera feed. I filed the suggestion FB14734105 but hope that somebody knows a workaround...

I am trying to make a shader that resembles a laser like this: I've been experimenting with a basic Fresnel shader to start, but the Fresnel shader has a problem at high viewing angles where the top has a very different color than the rest of the capsule. This might work for a laser shader once inverted and fine tuned: However, when viewed from the top, it doesn't look so good anymore: Ideally, the purple edge is always ONLY on the edge, and the rest of the surface is the light pink color, no matter the viewing angle. How can I accomplish this to create something that looks like a laser?

Has anyone come across the issue that setting GKLocalPlayer.local.authenticateHandler breaks a RealityView's world tracking on iOS / iPadOS 18 beta 5? I'm in the process of upgrading my app to make use of the much appreciated RealityView unification, using RealityView not only on visionOS but now also on iOS and iPadOS. In my RealityView, I enable world tracking on iOS like this: content.camera = .worldTracking However, device position and orientation were ignored (the camera remained static) and there was no camera pass-through. Then I discovered that the issue disappeared when I remove the line GKLocalPlayer.local.authenticateHandler = { viewController, error in // ... some more code ... } So I filed FB14731139 and hope that it will be resolved before the release of iOS / iPadOS 18.

Good morning everyone, I'm building a simple game (my first game) using SwiftUI and SpriteKit that contains multiple views. I'm writing my game based on a main scene loaded into the GameView using a SpriteView. From there, using buttons, I move from one scene to another using self.scene?.view?.presentScene(...) and also with some cool transitions (.crossFade(withDuration: 0.5))). But I'm not sure if this is the best approach. I would need some guidance because I cannot find any material discussing the best way to create a proper navigation with SpriteKit. Do you have an updated article, tutorial, or reference that I can follow to learn about the best way to implement navigation in a SpriteKit game? What I'm doing right now is working, but I have limitations, for example, if I want to mix SwiftUI views and SpriteKit scenes. I want to add a Credits scene with some text and images that I want to do in SwiftUI and a Statistic scene with some cool graphics to show the players, but I don't know if I can navigate from an SKScene into a View, or if I need a completely different approach. Can I add UI components directly in a SpriteKit scene instead of using a different navigation system and full SwiftUI views? I really appreciate any help you can provide. As you can see, I'm a little bit lost 😅 Thanks a lot in advance 🙏

VisionOS 2 beta 5 ，unity text shader errors

I have a test application that draws a large number of simple textured polygons (sprites). Setting CAMetalLayer's displaySyncEnabled to FALSE will cause load on InterruptEventSourceBridge thread in kernel_task. (In this case, nanosleep is used to adjust the amount of METAL commands per unit time so that they are approximately the same) This appears to be a drawing-related thread, but there is no overhead when displaySyncEnabled is TRUE. What are these differences? A specific application is the SDL test program, SDL/test/testsprite.c. https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/10475

I have a test application that draws a large number of simple textured polygons (sprites). Setting CAMetalLayer's displaySyncEnabled to FALSE will cause load on InterruptEventSourceBridge thread in kernel_task. In this case, nanosleep() is used to adjust the amount of METAL commands per unit time so that they are approximately the same. This appears to be a drawing-related thread, but there is no overhead when displaySyncEnabled is TRUE. What are these differences? A specific application is the SDL test program, SDL/test/testsprite.c. https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/10475

I have a game for iOS where I use CADisplayLink to animate a simulation, and for some reason the animation is not getting the full 120hz on capable devices (like iPhone 15 Pro). When I enable a 120hz refresh target, the animation is capped at only 90hz. This looks terrible because the animation works best when doubled (30, 60, 120, 240, etc). The really bizarre thing is that when I turn on Screen Recording, my frame rate instantly jumps to 120, and everything looks perfectly smooth. My game has never looked better on iPhone! When recording is stopped, the animation drops back down to 90 fps. What in the world is going on? [displayLink setPreferredFrameRateRange:CAFrameRateRangeMake(100,240,120)]; //Min. Max, Preferred [displayLink addToRunLoop:[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] forMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode]; (Also, CADisableMinimumFrameDurationOnPhone is set to True in info.plist)

I have an AR game using ARKit with SceneKit that works just fine in iOS 17. In the iOS 18 betas, the AR background image shows black instead of showing the real world. As a result there's no tracking and obviously the whole game is useless. I narrowed down the issue to showing the Game Center Access Point. My app has ViewController 1 (VC1) showing the main menu and that's where I want to show the GC Access Point. From there you open VC2 which shows a list of levels. Selecting any level will open VC3 which has the ARScene. Following is the code I use to start Game Center in VC1: GKLocalPlayer.local.authenticateHandler = { gcAuthVC, error in let isGameCenterReady = (gcAuthVC == nil) && (error == nil) if let viewController = gcAuthVC { self.present (viewController, animated: true, completion: nil) } if error != nil { print(error?.localizedDescription ?? "") } if isGameCenterReady { GKAccessPoint.shared.location = .topLeading GKAccessPoint.shared.showHighlights = true GKAccessPoint.shared.isActive = true } } When switching to VC2 I run GKAccessPoint.shared.isActive = false so that the Access Point will no longer show in any of the following VCs. I tried running it in VC1, VC2, and again in VC3 - it doesn't change anything. Once I reach VC3, the background is black. If in VC1 I don't run GKAccessPoint.shared.isActive = true, so I don't activate the access point, the behavior is as follows: If I wait until after the Game Center login animation completes and closes on its own and then I proceed to VC2 and VC3, the camera image will show correctly If I quickly move to VC2 before the Game Center login animation has completed, so my code will close it by setting active = false, and then I continue to VC3, I will see the black background problem. So it does look like activating the access point and then de-activating it causes the issue. BTW, if I activate the access point and leave it on in all VCs, the same black background issue persists. Other than that, when I'm in VC3 with the black background and I switch to another app (so my game moves to the background), when it returns to the foreground, the camera suddenly shows the real world correctly! I tried to manually reset the AR session by pausing and restarting it, but that didn't change anything. Also, when I check with the debugger, it looks like when the app comes back to the foreground it also doesn't run the session start code. But something does seem to reset itself so I wonder what that is. Maybe I could trigger the same manually in my cdoe??? I repeat that everything works just fine in iOS 17 and below. This problem only started with the iOS 18 beta (currently on beta 5, but it started in some of the previous betas as well). So could this be a bug in iOS 18? As a workaround I could check the iOS version and if it's iOS18 not activate the access point, hoping that the user will not jump to VC2 too quickly, and show my own button which will open Game Center. But I'd rather give the users the full experience with their own avatar and the highlights showing up. Plus, certainly some users will move quickly to VC2 and that will be an awful experience. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Have some older code running an ARView in .nonAR mode with a perspective camera that is moved around. It seem if running this on an iPhone with iOS18 Beta or iOS18.1 beta it ignores the camera and the view looks incorrect.

Hi, I have a question, is it possible to create an occlusion material that hide only specific entities. For example I would. like to create a mask that hides the an cube entity which is in front of another sphere entity and would like to be able to see the sphere but not the cube trough occlusion.

Hello, has anyone been able to implement in their game a way to display the number of players currently online in their game?. I thought up of this feature and thought it will be useful for players to find out if there is anyone currently online so that they don't waste their time trying to find a random online match. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Jabir Abdi

I use quad_sum to optimize the lighting grid and shadow filter performance. Based on Metal Feature Set Tables, Apple Family 4 should support quad group operations like quad_sum and quad_max. However, on the iPhone X and iPhone 8, during creating pipeline states, we have the following error output: Encountered unlowered function call to air.quad_sum.f32. It works perfectly for iPhone 11 and higher versions. Should I improve my feature-checking logic from Apple Family 4 to Apple Family 5, or do I have other options to fix this unexpected behavior?

How do I set the static position of a SKSpriteNode so that it tilts toward the UIBezierPath as if it were following this Path? When I first start my App, these Nodes are all aligned in a straight line When I call: var trainAction = SKAction.follow(trainPath.cgPath, asOffset: false, orientToPath: true, speed: thisSpeed) for moving the train, the train + each car will orient its tilt to hug the trainPath. But I want the identical tilt to hug the trainPath for its initial static presentation. How do I do that?