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RealityKit: ECS System.update() method not being called every frame on hardware
Hi, I'm trying to use the ECS System class, and noticing on hardware, that update() is not being called every frame as its described in the Simulator, or as described in the documentation. To reproduce, simply create a System like so: class MySystem : System { var count : Int = 0 required init(scene: Scene) { } func update(context: SceneUpdateContext) { count = count + 1 print("Update \(count)") } } Then, inside the RealityView, register the System with: MySystem.registerSystem() Notice that while it'll reliably be called every frame in Simulator, it'll run for a few seconds on hardware, freeze, then only be called when indirectly doing something like moving a window or performing other visionOS actions that are analogous to those that call "invalidate" to refresh a window in other operating systems. Thanks in advance, -Rob.
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Nov ’23
GameKit - iCloud Sign In Error
Hi everyone, I'm trying to implement matchmaking in visionOS using GameKit and GameCenter. I'm following the example project that been shared but I get an error. Error: The requested operation could not be completed because you are not signed in to iCloud.. I'm getting this error as a result of matchmaking. I'm already logged in to iCloud in Vision Pro Simulator. I've tried to switch off-on every related settings but didn't work. I'm using latest Xcode Dev Beta and visionOS Beta v6. Would you mind share me any workaround? Regards, Melih
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Nov ’23
How to attach point cloud(or depth data) to heic?
I'm developing 3D Scanner works on iPad. I'm using AVCapturePhoto and Photogrammetry Session. photoCaptureDelegate is like below: extension PhotoCaptureDelegate: AVCapturePhotoCaptureDelegate { func photoOutput(_ output: AVCapturePhotoOutput, didFinishProcessingPhoto photo: AVCapturePhoto, error: Error?) { let fileUrl = CameraViewModel.instance.imageDir!.appendingPathComponent("\(PhotoCaptureDelegate.name)\(id).heic") let img = CIImage(cvPixelBuffer: photo.pixelBuffer!, options: [ .auxiliaryDepth: true, .properties: photo.metadata ]) let depthData = photo.depthData!.converting(toDepthDataType: kCVPixelFormatType_DepthFloat32) let colorSpace = CGColorSpace(name: CGColorSpace.sRGB) let fileData = CIContext().heifRepresentation(of: img, format: .RGBA8, colorSpace: colorSpace!, options: [ .avDepthData: depthData ]) try? fileData!.write(to: fileUrl, options: .atomic) } } But, Photogrammetry session spits warning messages: Sample 0 missing LiDAR point cloud! Sample 1 missing LiDAR point cloud! Sample 2 missing LiDAR point cloud! Sample 3 missing LiDAR point cloud! Sample 4 missing LiDAR point cloud! Sample 5 missing LiDAR point cloud! Sample 6 missing LiDAR point cloud! Sample 7 missing LiDAR point cloud! Sample 8 missing LiDAR point cloud! Sample 9 missing LiDAR point cloud! Sample 10 missing LiDAR point cloud! The session creates a usdz 3d model but scale is not correct. I think the point cloud can help Photogrammetry session to find right scale, but I don't know how to attach point cloud.
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Nov ’23
SpriteKit - Associating sound with motion
I need to associate sound with the movement of a sprite. Movement can be as a result of physics, not as a result of an SKAction. When the object is sliding thee should be sliding sound throughout the time when it is sliding, and then a different sound when it bumps into a rock and goes up in the air. When the object is airborne, there is no sound, till it falls again - a falling sound, and then slides down with a sliding sound. The sounds associated with the collision ( rock, ground and so on ) are straightforward and work fine. But am having difficulty associating the sound with movement. The closest result I have is to check the velocity of the sprite's physics body every update cycle and play or stop the sound based on whether the velocity is greater than zero. I tried SKAction.playSoundFileNamed first - the sound kept going even when the object was not moving. I tried adding an SKAudioNode with Play and Stop, with no better result. I finally tried using AVAudioPlayer to play and Pause , which yielded the best results, but the sliding sound still played past the sliding action. What is the best way to do this? My code for playing the sound is as follows: var blockSliding = false for block in gameBlocks { if (block.physicsBody?.velocity.dx ?? 0) + (ball.physicsBody?.velocity.dy ?? 0) > 0.05 { blockSliding = true break } } if slideSound.isPlaying { if !blockSliding { slideSound.pause() } } else { if blockSliding { slideSound.play() } } I have setup slideSound earlier loading the appropriate sound file into an AVAudioPlayer
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Nov ’23
Leaderboards for development and live environments
Hello, I'm working on a game application and I've been wondering about how I can separate the GameKit Leaderboards I'm using for testing purpose and the ones that would be "live" (i.e: only for the users) I've been point out that I can attach leaderboards to an app version but it makes me wondering about compatibility. I'm working on the application in version 1.1. My users are using the application in version 1.0 (with their leaderboards). Then I'm releasing a version 1.2. It would means I need to attach all the leaderboards from version 1.0 to version 1.2 and to me it's very tedious. What would be the best practice with using leaderboards on multiple environments? Thanks
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Nov ’23
Scene Kit Rotation - rotating around X and Y axis only, causing Z rotation
I am trying to control the orientation of a box in Scene Kit (iOS) using gestures. I am using the translation in x and y to update the x and y rotation of the SCNNode. After a long search I have realised that x and y rotation will always lead to z rotation, thanks to this excellent post: [https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/136174/im-rotating-an-object-on-two-axes-so-why-does-it-keep-twisting-around-the-thir?newreg=130c66c673f848a7be2873bf675573a9) So I am trying to get the z rotation causes, and then remove this from my object by applying the inverse quaternion however when I rotate the object 90 deg around x, and then 90 deg around Y it behaves VERY weirdly. It is almost behaving as it is in gimbal lock, but I did not think that using quaternion in the way that I am would cause gimbal lock in this way. I am sure it is something I am missing, or perhaps I am not able to remove the z rotation in this way. Thanks! I have added a video of the strange behaviour here [https://github.com/marcusraty/RotationExample/blob/main/Example.MP4) And the code example is here [https://github.com/marcusraty/RotationExample)
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Dec ’23
Crash when running custom train step and layers
My environment: Tensorflow: 2.14, tf-metal: 1.1, M3 Max I am working on an GAN full of residual sum and concatenation. It is trained correctly if using CPU only. However, if I enable GPU, it would cause: oc("mps_slice_1"("(mpsFileLoc): /AppleInternal/Library/BuildRoots/d615290d-668b-11ee-9734-0697ca55970a/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/MetalPerformanceShadersGraph/mpsgraph/MetalPerformanceShadersGraph/Core/Files/MPSGraphUtilities.mm":359:0)): error: 'mps.slice' op failed: length value 32 does not fit within the dimension size (33) with start value (32) /AppleInternal/Library/BuildRoots/d615290d-668b-11ee-9734-0697ca55970a/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/MetalPerformanceShadersGraph/mpsgraph/MetalPerformanceShadersGraph/Core/Files/MPSGraphExecutable.mm:2133: failed assertion `Error: MLIR pass manager failed' Some customization I guess might be related to the error: tf.bitwise.bitwise_xor, tf.concat, tf.pad in custom layers numpy.random in train steps. Another debug hint I found is that the "32" is the number of channel of my models' conv layer, and change as I change the number of channel. Is there anyone know what is wrong? Thank you so much
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Dec ’23
GPTK on Apple TV
I did not know that you can also get GPTK when you're working on an AppleTV app. I'm getting back into game programming so I booted up an app I installed on my AppleTV a few months ago and the display showed GPTK so I was able to see performance. Drew
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Dec ’23
Experience.rcproject
Hello I am very new here in the forum (in iOS dev as well). I am trying to build an app that uses 3d face filters and I want to use Reality Composer. I knew Xcode 15 did not have it so I downloaded the beta 8 version (as suggested in another post). This one actually has Reality Composure Pro (XCode -> Developer tools -> Reality Composure Pro) but the Experience.rcproject still does not appear. Is there a way to create one? When I use Reality Composure it seems only able to create standalone projects and it does not seem to be bundled in a any way to xCode. Thanks for your time people!
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Create CGColorSpace from CFPropertyList
I am trying to create a custom CGColorSpace in Swift on macOS but am not sure I really understand the concepts. I want to use a custom color space called Spot1 and if I extract the spot color from a PDF I get the following: "ColorSpace<Dictionary>" = { "Cs2<Array>" = ( Separation, Spot1, DeviceCMYK, { "BitsPerSample<Integer>" = 8; "Domain<Array>" = ( 0, 1 ); "Filter<Name>" = FlateDecode; "FunctionType<Integer>" = 0; "Length<Integer>" = 526; "Range<Array>" = ( 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1 ); "Size<Array>" = ( 1024 ); } ); }; How can I create this same color space using the CGColorSpace(propertyListPlist: CFPropertyList) API func createSpot1() -> CGColorSpace? { let dict0 : NSDictionary = [ "BitsPerSample": 8, "Domain" : [0,1], "Filter" : "FlateDecode", "FunctionType" : 0, "Length" : 526, "Range" : [0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1], "Size" : [1024]] let dict : NSDictionary = [ "Cs2" : ["Separation","Spot1", "DeviceCMYK", dict0] ] let space = CGColorSpace(propertyListPlist: dict as CFPropertyList) if space == nil { DebugLog("Spot1 color space is nil!") } return space }
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Dec ’23
Overloaded operator & device memory
Hi, In a metal shader I have a user-defined struct with a square brackets operator. This is a simplified version of it: struct MyData { float data[12]; float operator[](int i) const { return data[i]; } }; I pass a device buffer of that type in a compute kernel function: device const MyData* myDataBuffer Using the operator with a thread-space object works fine: MyData data_object = myDataBuffer[0]; float x = data_object[0]; // ok ..but trying to use it with the device-space buffer fails: float x = myDataBuffer[0][0]; // compilation error No viable overloaded operator[] for type 'const device MyData' Candidate function not viable: address space mismatch in 'this' argument ('const device MyData'), parameter type must be 'const MyData' For other operators I could define the function outside the struct and pass a reference to a device-memory object but the function for the square brackets operator can only be a member function. Am I missing something that could make the above statement compile?
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Dec ’23
[VisionOS] Crash on Present / Show GameCenter UI on VisionOS
I'm trying to display the native GameCenter interface from Unity (I've already tried Bounded and Unbouded Volume Mode, that is, with and without Full Immersive Mode) but I can't display this interface. If I use Unity's SocialAPI (https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Social.ShowLeaderboardUI.html), nothing is displayed, and I get the following message in XCode (simulator): [u 9C225095-F55E-42CC-8136-957279631DF3:m (null)] [com.apple.GameCenterUI.GameCenterDashboardExtension(1.0)] Connection to plugin interrupted while in use. setViewControllers:animated: called on <GKGameCenterViewController 0x106825600> while an existing transition or presentation is occurring; the navigation stack will not be updated. Type: Notice | Timestamp: 2023-12-08 12:13:50.585973+01:00 | Process: leaderboard-test | Library: UIKitCore | TID: 0x3e57bd viewServiceDidTerminateWithError:: Error Domain=_UIViewServiceInterfaceErrorDomain Code=3 "(null)" UserInfo={Message=Service Connection Interrupted} Type: Notice | Timestamp: 2023-12-08 12:13:50.586997+01:00 | Process: leaderboard-test | Library: UIKitCore | TID: 0x3e57bd [u 9C225095-F55E-42CC-8136-957279631DF3:m (null)] [com.apple.GameCenterUI.GameCenterDashboardExtension(1.0)] Connection to plugin invalidated while in use. Type: Error | Timestamp: 2023-12-08 12:13:50.588393+01:00 | Process: leaderboard-test | Library: PlugInKit | Subsystem: com.apple.PlugInKit | Category: lifecycle | TID: 0x3e5a18 If I try to do it using Apple's plugin for GameCenter (GameKitWrapper) adapted to VisionOS, the application crashes with the following error: "Presentations are not permitted within volumetric window scenes." *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Presentations are not permitted within volumetric window scenes.' *** First throw call stack: ( 0 CoreFoundation 0x00000001804a510c __exceptionPreprocess + 172 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x0000000180082f50 objc_exception_throw + 56 2 UIKitCore 0x0000000184bc2798 -[UIViewController _presentViewController:withAnimationController:completion:] + 1136 3 UIKitCore 0x0000000184bc4000 __63-[UIViewController _presentViewController:animated:completion:]_block_invoke + 88 4 UIKitCore 0x0000000184bc42d0 -[UIViewController _performCoordinatedPresentOrDismiss:animated:] + 484 5 UIKitCore 0x0000000184bc3f6c -[UIViewController _presentViewController:animated:completion:] + 160 6 UIKitCore 0x0000000184bc4374 -[UIViewController presentViewController:animate *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Presentations are not permitted within volumetric window scenes.' *** First throw call stack: ( 0 CoreFoundation 0x00000001804a510c __exceptionPreprocess + 172 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x0000000180082f50 objc_exception_throw + 56 2 UIKitCore 0x0000000184bc2798 -[UIViewController _presentViewController:withAnimationController:completion:] + 1136 3 UIKitCore 0x0000000184bc4000 __63-[UIViewController _presentViewController:animated:completion:]_block_invoke + 88 4 UIKitCore 0x0000000184bc42d0 -[UIViewController _performCoordinatedPresentOrDismiss:animated:] + 484 5 UIKitCore 0x0000000184bc3f6c -[UIViewController _presentViewController:animated:completion:] + 160 6 UIKitCore 0x0000000184bc4374 -[UIViewController presentViewController:animated:completion:] + 140 7 GameKitWrapper 0x00000001057aa864 $s14GameKitWrapper34GKGameCenterViewController_Present7pointer6taskId9onSuccessySv_s5Int64VyAGXCtF ... ) The code that produces this crash is the following (trying to display the GameCenter UI): let viewController = UIApplication.shared.windows.first!.rootViewController; viewController?.present(target, animated: true); @_cdecl("GKGameCenterViewController_Present") public func GKGameCenterViewController_Present ( pointer: UnsafeMutableRawPointer, taskId: Int64, onSuccess: @escaping SuccessTaskCallback ) { let target = Unmanaged<GKGameCenterViewController>.fromOpaque(pointer).takeUnretainedValue(); _currentPresentingGameCenterDelegate = GameKitUIDelegateHandler(taskId: taskId, onSuccess: onSuccess); target.gameCenterDelegate = _currentPresentingGameCenterDelegate; #if os(iOS) || os(tvOS) || os(visionOS) let viewController = UIApplication.shared.windows.first!.rootViewController; viewController?.present(target, animated: true); #endif } Is there a way to present the GameCenter UI overlaid on the Unity app?
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RealityView fit in volumetric window
Hey guys How I can fit RealityView content inside a volumetric window? I have below simple example: WindowGroup(id: "preview") { RealityView { content in if let entity = try? await Entity(named: "name") { content.add(entity) entity.setPosition(.zero, relativeTo: entity.parent) } } } .defaultSize(width: 0.6, height: 0.6, depth: 0.6, in: .meters) .windowStyle(.volumetric) I understand that we can resize a Model3D view automatically using .resizable() and .scaledToFit() after the model loaded. Can we achieve the same result using a RealityView? Cheers
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Dec ’23
Exporting models from Maya to SceneKit with animation
I am trying to use my animated model in XCode with SceneKit. I exported my model from Maya with Animation Data in .usd format, then converted it to .usdz with Reality Converter. When I open it in XCode viewer it is animated and everything is fine. However when I try to use it in my app it doesn't animate. On the other hand, when I try with the robot_walk_idle model from Apple's example models, it is animated. Maybe I am missing a option in export settings. Thanks for any help. import SwiftUI import SceneKit struct ModelView: View { var body: some View{ VStack{ SceneView(scene: SCNScene(named: "robot_walk_idle.usdz")) } } }
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