I'm running into a persistent visual issue while deploying a floral corridor scene to Apple Vision Pro using Unity 6.0 with URP and Metal. The issue only appears on the Vision Pro device — everything looks fine in the Unity Editor.
Issue Description
When the frame rate drops to around 60–70 FPS, noticeable distortion artifacts appear around the edges of foliage models. It seems like the background meshes (behind the plants) get warped and leak through the edges of the foliage. Although this is most visible around the leaves, even solid objects like standard URP wall or box models show distorted edges when the issue occurs.
All the foliage uses Opaque or Alpha Clipping materials.
Things I've Tried
Changing the foliage materials to Transparent mode —distortion around edges disappears, but using Transparent for a large number of foliage assets is not ideal for performance or sorting complexity.
Reducing the number of foliage objects — with only a few plants in the scene and the frame rate staying around 100 FPS, the distortion disappears. However, this isn’t a practical solution for a full environment.
Possible Cause?
I came across this note in the Unity documentation:
"Ensure depth-buffer for each pixel is non-zero - on visionOS, the depth buffer is used for reprojection. To ensure visual effects like skyboxes and shaders are displayed beautifully, ensure that some value is written to the depth for each pixel."
Could this be related to the issue? Is it possible that Alpha Clipping with low pixel coverage leads to some pixels not writing to the depth buffer, which then causes problems during Vision Pro’s reprojection or foveated rendering? However, even when I disable Alpha Clipping entirely, the distortion issue still persists, so it may not be solely caused by clipping itself.
Project Setup
Unity 6.0 (URP)
Depth Texture: Enable
Using Metal as the graphics backend
Running on real Vision Pro hardware (not simulator)
Any advice on how to avoid these distortion issues on Vision Pro would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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Hello,
Could someone post code that shows how to implement GCVirtualController to move a box around the screen?
I've been poking around with GCVirtualController and gotten as far as having the D-pad and A B buttons appear on the display. But how do I make it do anything?
Topic:
Graphics & Games
SubTopic:
SpriteKit
I have an odd bug, if I use initWithFrame as the init routine for NSView subclass that uses layers I don't see this bug.
But if I embedded this view into a storyboard with a .nib file and use initWithCoder, I need to return true on
(BOOL) contentsAreFlipped
From the NSView subclass
If I don't the CALayer actually renders from 0,0 from the view upwards and off the window.
The frame sizes for the NSView and the CALayer are good.. when I see them in updateLayer.
Obviously I have a fix.. but I would like to understand why.
Topic:
Graphics & Games
SubTopic:
General
When trying to play with friends Krazy Krownz doesn’t allow me to click multiplayer even though my Apple Game Center connected and my friends Apple game center connected as well. I even tried sending an invite from Apple Game Center to friends and Krazy Krownz doesn’t even show up on the list of available multiplayer games.
I’ve signed out and back in the same issue remain.
I’ve try to contact the game developer, but the website doesn’t work.
Topic:
Graphics & Games
SubTopic:
GameKit
hi
When analyzing our game using Instruments, I've always been confused about the two items "Drawable Present" and "Drawable Presented" in the GPU column. The timing of Drawable Present seems to be when the CPU layer calls commandbuffer:present, rather than when the actual encoding is completed on the GPU. Also, what does drawable presented specifically mean? In our case, when a CPU stall occurs, it appears that the vsync interval changes in the next frame, and a surface that has already been calculated is not displayed. Why is this happening?
I am integrating MetalFX FrameInterpolator into a custom Unity RenderGraph–based render pipeline (C++ native plugin + C# render passes), and I am hitting the following assertion at runtime:
/MetalFXDebugError.h:29: failed assertion `Color texture width mismatch from descriptor'
What makes this confusing is that all input/output textures have the correct width and height, and they exactly match the values specified in the MTLFXFrameInterpolatorDescriptor.
Setup
Input resolution: 1024 x 512
Output resolution: 2048 x 1024
MTLFXTemporalScaler is created first and then passed into MTLFXFrameInterpolator
The TemporalScaler and FrameInterpolator descriptors use the same input/output sizes and formats
All Metal textures:
Have no parentTexture
Are 2D textures
Match the descriptor sizes exactly (verified via logging)
Texture bindings at encode time
frameInterpolator.colorTexture = mtlTexColor; // 1024 x 512
frameInterpolator.prevColorTexture = mtlTexPrevColor; // 1024 x 512
frameInterpolator.motionTexture = mtlTexMotion; // 1024 x 512
frameInterpolator.depthTexture = mtlTexDepth; // 1024 x 512
frameInterpolator.uiTexture = mtlTexUI; // 2048 x 1024
frameInterpolator.outputTexture = mtlTexOutput; // 2048 x 1024
All widths/heights are logged and match:
Color : 1024 x 512 (input)
PrevColor : 1024 x 512 (input)
Motion : 1024 x 512 (input)
Depth : 1024 x 512 (input)
UI : 2048 x 1024 (output)
Output : 2048 x 1024 (output)
The TemporalScaler works correctly on its own.
The assertion only occurs when using FrameInterpolator.
Important detail about colorTexture
Originally, colorTexture was copied from BuiltinRenderTextureType.CurrentActive.
After reading that this might violate MetalFX semantics, I changed the pipeline so that:
colorTexture now comes from a dedicated private RenderGraph texture
It is not the backbuffer
It is not a drawable
It is not used as a final output
It is created before UI rendering
Despite this, the assertion still occurs.
Question
Can uiTexture for MTLFXFrameInterpolator legally come from a texture copied from BuiltinRenderTextureType.CurrentActive?
More generally:
Are there additional hidden constraints on colorTexture / prevColorTexture (such as Metal usage, storageMode, aliasing, or hazard tracking) that could cause this assertion, even when sizes match?
Does FrameInterpolator require colorTexture and prevColorTexture to be created in a very specific way (e.g. non-aliased, ShaderRead usage, identical Metal resource properties)?
Any clarification on the exact semantic requirements for colorTexture, prevColorTexture, or uiTexture in MetalFX FrameInterpolator would be greatly appreciated.
RealityKit spatial audio crackles and pops on iOS 26.0 beta 5.
It works correctly on iOS 18.6 and visionOS 26.0 beta 5.
The APIs used are AudioPlaybackController, Entity.prepareAudio, Entity.play
Videos of the expected and observed behavior are attached to the feedback FB19423059.
The audio should be a consistent, repeating sound, but it seems oddly abbreviated and the volume varies unexpectedly.
Thank you for investigating this issue.
Hello Apple Developers and users I am writing this message reguarding some help on some performance codes/settings I can use for my Macbook since I recently downloaded the MacOs Tahoe 26.2 and its been very glitchy and laggy with gaming and just using my mac normally I have tried using a FPS unlocker and downloading Metal 4 the FPS unlocker hasent worked at all I am still stuck on the normal 60 FPS and need some advice/help. Thank you. Kind regards Zachary
Hi!
I'd like to share a technical sample app, SKRenderer Demo.
This app demonstrates:
Setting up SKRenderer
Recording SpriteKit scenes to image sequences
Recording SpriteKit scenes to video using IOSurface and AVFoundation
Applying Core Image filters
Exploring SpriteKit's simulation timing and physics determinism
Use Case
Record SpriteKit simulations as video or images for sharing and creating content.
I explored several approaches, including the excellent view.texture(from:crop:) for live recording from SKView. The SKRenderer approach assumes recording happens asynchronously: you capture user interactions as commands during live interaction, then replay those commands through an offline render pass to generate the final output.
I hope this helps others working on replay systems, simulation capture, or SpriteKit projects in general!
Issue
When an Entity with a ViewAttachmentComponent is:
disabled using isEnabled = false
removed using removeFromParent()
and then enabled or added back again, the attached SwiftUI view is rendered correctly, but tap interactions stop working.
Specifically:
Button actions inside the attached view do not fire
TapGesture closures on child views do not respond
Expected Behavior
Tap interactions inside the attached view should continue to work after the Entity is re-enabled or re-added.
Actual Behavior
After being disabled or removed once, all tap interactions stop responding.
Comparison
When displaying the same SwiftUI view using RealityViewAttachments, this issue does not occur.
Removing and re-displaying the attachment still allows taps to work correctly.
Reproduction
Attached sample code reproduces the issue:
A RealityView with an Entity that has a ViewAttachmentComponent
The attached SwiftUI view contains a Toggle
The toggle updates isEnabled on the Entity
After toggling off and on, tap interactions stop responding
Environment
Xcode 26
visionOS 26
Question
Is this expected behavior of ViewAttachmentComponent, or a bug?
Is there a recommended way to temporarily hide or disable an Entity with ViewAttachmentComponent without breaking tap interactions?
import SwiftUI
import RealityKit
struct GestureTestView: View {
@State var sampleEnabled = true
@State var sampleEntity: Entity?
var body: some View {
RealityView { contents, attachments in
// After deleting and re-displaying it, taps no longer respond.
let sample = Entity(components: ViewAttachmentComponent(rootView: SampleView()))
// Executed successfully
//let sample = attachments.entity(for: "SampleView")!
contents.add(sample)
sample.position = [0, 1.2, -1]
sampleEntity = sample
let toggleButton = Entity(components: ViewAttachmentComponent(rootView: ToggleButtonView(isOn: $sampleEnabled)))
contents.add(toggleButton)
toggleButton.position = [0, 1, -1]
} update: { _, _ in
// run update closure
print(sampleEnabled)
// update sample entity enable
sampleEntity?.isEnabled = sampleEnabled
} attachments: {
Attachment(id: "SampleView") {
SampleView()
}
}
}
}
struct ToggleButtonView: View {
@Binding var isOn: Bool
var body: some View {
VStack {
Toggle(isOn: $isOn) {
Text("Toggle")
}
}
.padding()
.glassBackgroundEffect()
}
}
struct SampleView: View {
var body: some View {
VStack {
Button {
print("Hello, World!")
} label: {
Text("Hello, World!")
.padding()
}
}
.padding()
.glassBackgroundEffect()
}
}
#Preview(immersionStyle: .mixed) {
GestureTestView()
}
I'm running into an issue with collisions between two entities with a character controller component. In the collision handler for moveCharacter the collision has both hitEntity and characterEntity set to the same object. This object is the entity that was moved with moveCharacter()
The below example configures 3 objects.
stationary sphere with character controller
falling sphere with character controller
a stationary cube with a collision component
if the falling sphere hits the stationary sphere then the collision handler reports both hitEntity and characterEntity to be the falling sphere. I would expect that the hitEntity would be the stationary sphere and the character entity would be the falling sphere.
if the falling sphere hits the cube with a collision component the the hit entity is the cube and the characterEntity is the falling sphere as expected.
Is this the expected behavior? The entities act as expected visually however if I want the spheres to react differently depending on what character they collided with then I am not getting the expected results. IE: If a player controlled character collides with a NPC then exchange resource with NPC. if player collides with enemy then take damage.
import SwiftUI
import RealityKit
struct ContentView: View {
@State var root: Entity = Entity()
@State var stationary: Entity = createCharacter(named: "stationary", radius: 0.05, color: .blue)
@State var falling: Entity = createCharacter(named: "falling", radius: 0.05, color: .red)
@State var collisionCube: Entity = createCollisionCube(named: "cube", size: 0.1, color: .green)
//relative to root
@State var fallFrom: SIMD3<Float> = [0,0.5,0]
var body: some View {
RealityView { content in
content.add(root)
root.position = [0,-0.5,0.0]
root.addChild(stationary)
stationary.position = [0,0.05,0]
root.addChild(falling)
falling.position = fallFrom
root.addChild(collisionCube)
collisionCube.position = [0.2,0,0]
collisionCube.components.set(InputTargetComponent())
}
.gesture(SpatialTapGesture().targetedToAnyEntity().onEnded { tap in
let tapPosition = tap.entity.position(relativeTo: root)
falling.components.remove(FallComponent.self)
falling.teleportCharacter(to: tapPosition + fallFrom, relativeTo: root)
})
.toolbar {
ToolbarItemGroup(placement: .bottomOrnament) {
HStack {
Button("Drop") {
falling.components.set(FallComponent(speed: 0.4))
}
Button("Reset") {
falling.components.remove(FallComponent.self)
falling.teleportCharacter(to: fallFrom, relativeTo: root)
}
}
}
}
}
}
@MainActor
func createCharacter(named name: String, radius: Float, color: UIColor) -> Entity {
let character = ModelEntity(mesh: .generateSphere(radius: radius), materials: [SimpleMaterial(color: color, isMetallic: false)])
character.name = name
character.components.set(CharacterControllerComponent(radius: radius, height: radius))
return character
}
@MainActor
func createCollisionCube(named name: String, size: Float, color: UIColor) -> Entity {
let cube = ModelEntity(mesh: .generateBox(size: size), materials: [SimpleMaterial(color: color, isMetallic: false)])
cube.name = name
cube.generateCollisionShapes(recursive: true)
return cube
}
struct FallComponent: Component {
let speed: Float
}
struct FallSystem: System{
static let predicate: QueryPredicate<Entity> = .has(FallComponent.self) && .has(CharacterControllerComponent.self)
static let query: EntityQuery = .init(where: predicate)
let down: SIMD3<Float> = [0,-1,0]
init(scene: RealityKit.Scene) {
}
func update(context: SceneUpdateContext) {
let deltaTime = Float(context.deltaTime)
for entity in context.entities(matching: Self.query, updatingSystemWhen: .rendering) {
let speed = entity.components[FallComponent.self]?.speed ?? 0.5
entity.moveCharacter(by: down * speed * deltaTime, deltaTime: deltaTime, relativeTo: nil) { collision in
if collision.hitEntity == collision.characterEntity {
print("hit entity has collided with itself")
}
print("\(collision.characterEntity.name) collided with \(collision.hitEntity.name) ")
}
}
}
}
#Preview(windowStyle: .volumetric) {
ContentView()
}
hello apple through this message i want to draw you attention to some problems with gptk and rosetta some games like marvel spiderman 2 have broken animations and t pose issues and other like uncharted and the last of us have severe memory leak issues so its my request please fix it asap
My app has a number of heterogeneous GPU workloads that all run concurrently. Some of these should be executed with the highest priority because the app’s responsiveness depends on them, while others are triggered by file imports and the like which should have a low priority. If this was running on the CPU I’d assign the former User Interactive QoS and the latter Utility QoS. Is there an equivalent to this for GPU work?
On MacBook Pro M3 14" I can profile the Metal App performance by running it, then clicking on the M icon and choosing profile after replay.
On Mac Studio M2 Ultra I cannot: the profiler starts and crashes. I have tried everything including reinstalling the OS, Xcode, the Metal SDK, you name it.
The app uses the Metal 4 API. The content of the replayer errorinfo report is shown at the end.
Any ideas what is going on here and/or what else I can do do root cause this and fix it?
FWIW, it was worse on 26.1 (Xcode just reported Metal 4 profiling not available). In 26.2 Xcode attempts to profile and invariably crashes.
=== Error summary: ===
1x DYErrorDomain (512) - guest app crashed (512)
1x com.apple.gputools.MTLReplayer (100) - Abort trap: 6
=== First Error ===
Domain: DYErrorDomain
Error code: 512
Description: guest app crashed (512)
GTErrorKeyPID: 26913
GTErrorKeyProcessName: GPUToolsReplayService
GTErrorKeyCrashDate: 2026-01-09 19:22:52 +0000
=== Underlying Error #1 ===
Domain: com.apple.gputools.MTLReplayer
Error code: 100
Description: Abort trap: 6
Call stack:
0 GPUToolsReplay 0x0000000249c25850 MakeNSError + 284
1 GPUToolsReplay 0x0000000249c26428 HandleCrashSignal + 252
2 libsystem_platform.dylib 0x00000001856c7744 _sigtramp + 56
3 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00000001856bd888 pthread_kill + 296
4 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00000001855c2850 abort + 124
5 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00000001855c1a84 err + 0
6 IOGPU 0x00000001a9ea60a8 -[IOGPUMetal4CommandQueue _commit:count:commitFeedback:].cold.1 + 0
7 IOGPU 0x00000001a9ea0df8 __77-[IOGPUMetal4CommandQueue commitFillArgs:count:args:argsSize:commitFeedback:]_block_invoke + 0
8 IOGPU 0x00000001a9ea1004 -[IOGPUMetal4CommandQueue _commit:count:commitFeedback:] + 148
9 AGXMetalG14X 0x00000001158a2c98 -[AGXG14XFamilyCommandQueue_mtlnext noMergeCommit:count:options:commitFeedback:error:] + 116
10 AGXMetalG14X 0x0000000115a45c14 +[AGXG14XFamilyRenderContext_mtlnext mergeRenderEncoders:count:options:commitFeedback:queue:error:] + 4740
11 AGXMetalG14X 0x00000001158a2b34 -[AGXG14XFamilyCommandQueue_mtlnext commit:count:options:] + 96
12 GPUToolsReplay 0x0000000249bf0644 GTMTLReplayController_defaultDispatchFunction_noPinning + 2744
13 GPUToolsReplay 0x0000000249befb10 GTMTLReplayController_defaultDispatchFunction + 1368
14 GPUToolsReplay 0x0000000249b7a61c _ZL16DispatchFunctionP21GTMTLReplayControllerPK11GTTraceFuncRb + 476
15 GPUToolsReplay 0x0000000249b8603c ___ZN35GTUSCSamplingStreamingManagerHelper19StreamFrameTimeDataEv_block_invoke + 456
16 Foundation 0x0000000186f6c878 __NSBLOCKOPERATION_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_BLOCK__ + 24
17 Foundation 0x0000000186f6c740 -[NSBlockOperation main] + 96
18 Foundation 0x0000000186f6c6d8 __NSOPERATION_IS_INVOKING_MAIN__ + 16
19 Foundation 0x0000000186f6c308 -[NSOperation start] + 640
20 Foundation 0x0000000186f6c080 __NSOPERATIONQUEUE_IS_STARTING_AN_OPERATION__ + 16
21 Foundation 0x0000000186f6bf70 __NSOQSchedule_f + 164
22 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001855104d0 _dispatch_block_async_invoke2 + 148
23 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000018551aad4 _dispatch_client_callout + 16
24 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001855056e4 _dispatch_continuation_pop + 596
25 libdispatch.dylib 0x0000000185504d58 _dispatch_async_redirect_invoke + 580
26 libdispatch.dylib 0x0000000185512fc8 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 364
27 libdispatch.dylib 0x0000000185513784 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 180
28 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00000001856b9e10 _pthread_wqthread + 232
29 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00000001856b8b9c start_wqthread + 8
Replayer breadcrumbs:
[
]
GTErrorKeyProcessSignal: SIGABRT
=== Setup ===
Capture device: star.localdomain (Mac14,14) - macOS 26.2 (25C56) - 0BA10D1D-D340-5F2E-934B-536675AF9BA1
Metal version: 370.64.2
Supported graphics APIs:
Metal device: Apple M2 Ultra
Supported GPU families: Apple1 Apple2 Apple3 Apple4 Apple5 Apple6 Apple7 Apple8 Mac1 Mac2 Common1 Common2 Common3 Metal3 Metal4
Replay device: star (Mac14,14) - macOS 26.2 (25C56) - 0BA10D1D-D340-5F2E-934B-536675AF9BA1
Metal version: 370.64.2
Supported graphics APIs:
Metal device: Apple M2 Ultra
Supported GPU families: Apple1 Apple2 Apple3 Apple4 Apple5 Apple6 Apple7 Apple8 Mac1 Mac2 Common1 Common2 Common3 Metal3 Metal4
Host: Mac14,14 - macOS 26.2 (25C56)
Tool: Xcode (17C52)
Known SDKs:
Topic:
Graphics & Games
SubTopic:
Metal
I am currently using RealityKit (perspective camera) to render a character in my swiftUI app.
The character has customization such as clothing items and hair and all objects are properly weighted to the rig.
The way the model is setup in Blender is like so: Groups of objects that will be swapped (ex: Shoes -> Shoes objects) and an armature. I then export it to usdc with all objects active. This is the resulting hierarchy:
Before exporting for the animation (armature modifier applied), I simply had to store the Model entities and swap them in but now when I export with the Armature Modifier applied, so that animations get exported, the ModelComponent gets flattened to the armature and swapping entities and applying new materials to them is no longer as simple.
Here's a demo blend file and usdc export with a setup like mine, having an animated bone to swing a cube and sphere, to be swapped so that only one is visible https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/be2q6qcztc83z7c4gj1w0/AMapxWc_ip2KZ8oTOYDUMv8?rlkey=rcdaggcxq06dyen09mw5mqmem&st=bnc0d7j0&dl=0
This is how I'm loading the entity and removing a part, with the demo files
import SwiftUI
import RealityKit
struct SwapDemoView: View {
var body: some View {
RealityView { content in
let camera = PerspectiveCamera()
camera.transform.translation = SIMD3(x: 0, y: 0.1, z: 3)
guard let root = try? await Entity(named: "simpleSwapDemo") else { fatalError("simpleSwapDemo.usdc is not present") }
print(root) // Get initial hierarchy
guard let cube = root.findEntity(named: "Cube") else { fatalError("Entity cube doesn't exist") }
cube.removeFromParent() // <-- Cube is still visible after removal
print(root) // Get hierarchy to confirm removal of cube
let resource = root.availableAnimations[0]
root.playAnimation(resource.repeat())
content.add(root)
content.add(camera)
}
.background(.white)
}
}
And this is what the entity hierarchy looks like in RealityKit before cube removal
▿ 'root' : Entity, children: 1
⟐ SynchronizationComponent
⟐ AnimationLibraryComponent
⟐ Transform
▿ 'Armature' : ModelEntity, children: 2
⟐ SynchronizationComponent
⟐ ModelComponent
⟐ SkeletalPosesComponent
⟐ AnimationLibraryComponent
⟐ Transform
▿ 'Armature' : Entity
⟐ SynchronizationComponent
⟐ Transform
▿ 'Primitives' : Entity, children: 2
⟐ SynchronizationComponent
⟐ Transform
▿ 'Sphere' : Entity, children: 1
⟐ SynchronizationComponent
⟐ Transform
▿ 'Sphere' : Entity
⟐ SynchronizationComponent
⟐ Transform
▿ 'Cube' : Entity, children: 1
⟐ SynchronizationComponent
⟐ Transform
▿ 'Cube' : Entity
⟐ SynchronizationComponent
⟐ Transform
And here's the hierarchy after removal
▿ 'root' : Entity, children: 1
⟐ SynchronizationComponent
⟐ AnimationLibraryComponent
⟐ Transform
▿ 'Armature' : ModelEntity, children: 2
⟐ SynchronizationComponent
⟐ ModelComponent
⟐ SkeletalPosesComponent
⟐ AnimationLibraryComponent
⟐ Transform
▿ 'Armature' : Entity
⟐ SynchronizationComponent
⟐ Transform
▿ 'Primitives' : Entity, children: 1
⟐ SynchronizationComponent
⟐ Transform
▿ 'Sphere' : Entity, children: 1
⟐ SynchronizationComponent
⟐ Transform
▿ 'Sphere' : Entity
⟐ SynchronizationComponent
⟐ Transform
And this is the result:
What's the best practice here? Should animation be exported separately and then applied to the skeleton? If so, how is that achieved? I'm not really sure how to proceed here.
Hi,
How to enable multitouch on ARView?
Touch functions (touchesBegan, touchesMoved, ...) seem to only handle one touch at a time. In order to handle multiple touches at a time with ARView, I have to either:
Use SwiftUI .simultaneousGesture on top of an ARView representable
Position a UIView on top of ARView to capture touches and do hit testing by passing a reference to ARView
Expected behavior:
ARView should capture all touches via touchesBegan/Moved/Ended/Cancelled.
Here is what I tried, on iOS 26.1 and macOS 26.1:
ARView Multitouch
The setup below is a minimal ARView presented by SwiftUI, with touch events handled inside ARView. Multitouch doesn't work with this setup.
Note that multitouch wouldn't work either if the ARView is presented with a UIViewController instead of SwiftUI.
import RealityKit
import SwiftUI
struct ARViewMultiTouchView: View {
var body: some View {
ZStack {
ARViewMultiTouchRepresentable()
.ignoresSafeArea()
}
}
}
#Preview {
ARViewMultiTouchView()
}
// MARK: Representable ARView
struct ARViewMultiTouchRepresentable: UIViewRepresentable {
func makeUIView(context: Context) -> ARView {
let arView = ARViewMultiTouch(frame: .zero)
let anchor = AnchorEntity()
arView.scene.addAnchor(anchor)
let boxWidth: Float = 0.4
let boxMaterial = SimpleMaterial(color: .red, isMetallic: false)
let box = ModelEntity(mesh: .generateBox(size: boxWidth), materials: [boxMaterial])
box.name = "Box"
box.components.set(CollisionComponent(shapes: [.generateBox(width: boxWidth, height: boxWidth, depth: boxWidth)]))
anchor.addChild(box)
return arView
}
func updateUIView(_ uiView: ARView, context: Context) { }
}
// MARK: ARView
class ARViewMultiTouch: ARView {
required init(frame: CGRect) {
super.init(frame: frame)
/// Enable multi-touch
isMultipleTouchEnabled = true
cameraMode = .nonAR
automaticallyConfigureSession = false
environment.background = .color(.gray)
/// Disable gesture recognizers to not conflict with touch events
/// But it doesn't fix the issue
gestureRecognizers?.forEach { $0.isEnabled = false }
}
required dynamic init?(coder decoder: NSCoder) {
fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
}
override func touchesBegan(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {
for touch in touches {
/// # Problem
/// This should print for every new touch, up to 5 simultaneously on an iPhone (multi-touch)
/// But it only fires for one touch at a time (single-touch)
print("Touch began at: \(touch.location(in: self))")
}
}
}
Multitouch with an Overlay
This setup works, but it doesn't seem right. There must be a solution to make ARView handle multi touch directly, right?
import SwiftUI
import RealityKit
struct MultiTouchOverlayView: View {
var body: some View {
ZStack {
MultiTouchOverlayRepresentable()
.ignoresSafeArea()
Text("Multi touch with overlay view")
.font(.system(size: 24, weight: .medium))
.foregroundStyle(.white)
.offset(CGSize(width: 0, height: -150))
}
}
}
#Preview {
MultiTouchOverlayView()
}
// MARK: Representable Container
struct MultiTouchOverlayRepresentable: UIViewRepresentable {
func makeUIView(context: Context) -> UIView {
/// The view that SwiftUI will present
let container = UIView()
/// ARView
let arView = ARView(frame: container.bounds)
arView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth, .flexibleHeight]
arView.cameraMode = .nonAR
arView.automaticallyConfigureSession = false
arView.environment.background = .color(.gray)
let anchor = AnchorEntity()
arView.scene.addAnchor(anchor)
let boxWidth: Float = 0.4
let boxMaterial = SimpleMaterial(color: .red, isMetallic: false)
let box = ModelEntity(mesh: .generateBox(size: boxWidth), materials: [boxMaterial])
box.name = "Box"
box.components.set(CollisionComponent(shapes: [.generateBox(width: boxWidth, height: boxWidth, depth: boxWidth)]))
anchor.addChild(box)
/// The view that will capture touches
let touchOverlay = TouchOverlayView(frame: container.bounds)
touchOverlay.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth, .flexibleHeight]
touchOverlay.backgroundColor = .clear
/// Pass an arView reference to the overlay for hit testing
touchOverlay.arView = arView
/// Add views to the container.
/// ARView goes in first, at the bottom.
container.addSubview(arView)
/// TouchOverlay goes in last, on top.
container.addSubview(touchOverlay)
return container
}
func updateUIView(_ uiView: UIView, context: Context) {
}
}
// MARK: Touch Overlay View
/// A UIView to handle multi-touch on top of ARView
class TouchOverlayView: UIView {
weak var arView: ARView?
override init(frame: CGRect) {
super.init(frame: frame)
isMultipleTouchEnabled = true
isUserInteractionEnabled = true
}
required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
}
override func touchesBegan(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {
let totalTouches = event?.allTouches?.count ?? touches.count
print("--- Touches Began --- (New: \(touches.count), Total: \(totalTouches))")
for touch in touches {
let location = touch.location(in: self)
/// Hit testing.
/// ARView and Touch View must be of the same size
if let arView = arView {
let entity = arView.entity(at: location)
if let entity = entity {
print("Touched entity: \(entity.name)")
} else {
print("Touched: none")
}
}
}
}
override func touchesCancelled(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {
let totalTouches = event?.allTouches?.count ?? touches.count
print("--- Touches Cancelled --- (Cancelled: \(touches.count), Total: \(totalTouches))")
}
}
I work on a team that provides an SDK for another game to handle various tasks like authentication. They are experiencing a case where devices using iOS 17 are failing to authenticate with GameCenter, receiving the message "The requested operation could not be completed because local player has not been authenticated." We imagine this is because they still have some setup to finish regarding GameCenter itself, and we're working with them to take care of that.
However, on iOS 18, their app ends up waiting indefinitely for GameCenter authentication messages that it never receives. That's where we're puzzled. We expect them to have the same outcome regardless of OS version.
We initiate GameCenter authentication by setting an authenticateHandler after some initial application setup. The handler has code to account for UI, errors, and successful authentication.
On iOS 17, it's clear that it's getting called as expected because they receive an indication that the player isn't authenticated. But on iOS 18, it looks like the same handler code on iOS 18 isn't being called at all. Are there differences in how iOS 18 interacts with the authenticationHandler that we somehow aren't accounting for? Or is there potentially something else that we're doing incorrectly that is manifesting only on iOS 18?
Here's a simplified version of our login function code (in Obj-C++). There is no OS-specific code, and the job that owns this function does stay in scope until after authentication is complete.
void beginLogin()
{
// Snip: Check if the user is already logged in.
// Snip: Prevent multiple concurrent calls to this function.
auto authenticateHandler = ^(UIViewController* gcViewController, NSError* error)
{
if (gcViewController != nil)
{
// Snip: Display the UI
}
else if (error != nil)
{
// Snip: Handle the error.
}
else
{
if ([[GKLocalPlayer localPlayer] isAuthenticated])
{
// Snip: Handle successful authentication.
}
else
{
// Snip: Handle other case.
}
}
};
[[GKLocalPlayer localPlayer] setAuthenticateHandler: authenticateHandler];
}
I've tried out a ParticleEmitter in Reality Composer Pro to produce a burst of particles that don't move (i.e. speed close to zero).
When viewing from different angles, it clearly looks like the particles are rendered exactly in the wrong order, that is, front first and back last. In other words, back particles obscure front particles.
I would prefer it the correct way around.
I've only tried this interactively in Reality Composer Pro, not programmatically, but I assume I would get the same result.
My Reality Composer Pro "File" (zipped):
https://gert-rieger-edv.de/Posts/Post-1/RealityParticles.zip
Screenshot:
Click on the ParticleEmitter object, then on its Play button, then select the Particles tab and click on "Burst" a few times to get a few random particles.
Mac Studio 2025
Apple M4 Max
macOS 15.7.2 (24G325)
Reality Composer Pro
Version 2.0 (494.60.2)
I think I really have tried everything and I did all according to official documentation to support game mode on iOS or iPadOS but it doesn't matter what I do it just doesn't get triggered. Funny enough it works during development when I install it via Xcode but as soon as it is live on the store and when I install it from there game mode doesn't get triggered anymore. What I have atm
I have added (even though it is deprecated)
<key>GCSupportsGameMode</key>
<true/>
I have set the (but it seems only supported for macOS)
<key>LSApplicationCategoryType</key>
<string>public.app-category.games</string>
I have added
<key>LSSupportsGameMode</key>
<true/>
It just doesn't work. Is there anything else what needs to be done? Should the flag LSSupportsGameMode not be enough normally?
The reason why this is so annoying is that my app is a real time streaming app and I want to profit from minimised background activities for smoother gameplay and more consistent frame rates like mentioned in the documentation.
在正常游戏中,如果非常频繁的调用assetBundle.Unload接口,会导致游戏应用画面卡死,但是游戏的背景音乐仍然正常播放。这类问题仅发生在iphone16 和iphone17的手机上,低版本的手机没有任何问题,请问该如何解决这个问题?