Gideros 2022.5

hgy29

Gideros 2022.5 is available, with a bit of headroom for hot fixes

Two major additions this time:
Sprite cloning: Now Sprite can be cloned instead of having to recreate and re-customize them from lua. This is a big performance improvement if you need several similar Sprite on screen, in particular if those sprites are complex or compound. Imagine you need to create 100 cells in a board game, with a complex stacking such as a background, a foreground, and possible icons over the top of each cell. Previously you had to create and customize 300 or 400 sprites to achieve that, now you can just make one, clone it 100 times, and just customize the delat between each cell.
This won't speed up rendering, but will save time preparing the scene.

3D particles: Particles sprite gets a 'z' coordinate to support 3D, but that's not all. Enabling 3D mode tells Gideros to make sure that the particles are drawn always facing the camera, and further enabling auto sorting tells Gideros to sort particles back to front to correctly process alpha. Whats more, and this applies to 2D partciles as well, decay can now be separated into x,y and z coefficients, particles now handle acceleration, and you can assign multiple textures to your particles for use with a custom shader.

This new Gideros version also comes with bug fixes and various improvements from the community. Thanks to everyone who contributed.

Full list of changes:

New features

[gfx] Sprites are now clonable, except MovieClip
[gfx] Support 3D Particles
[gfx] Partciles can be multitextured (through shaders)
[gfx/particles] Add auto depth sorting of 3D particles
[gfx/particles] Differentiate X,Y and Z decay, add acceleration support
[gfx/particles] Add a method to retrieve recently dead particles
[examples] Add 3D particles demo

Improvements

[Library] update to 3d library to better handle texture loading and glb format
[library/3d] remove code hack thanks to luau
[Library] Update luashader lib
[sample/3D-Anim] Improved demo
[font/layout] Avoid calling harfbuzz plugion (if present) when text is Latin
[core] Use optimized memory allocator for Luau (as we did for Lua)
[gfx/textfield] Delay texture recreation until really displayed
[ios] Export entitlements file
[Studio] Preview pic for GTween example

Fixes

[plugin/rp3d] don't try to destroy a body twice
[sprite] Fix auto update and autobuffer of effect shaders
[audio] Fix audiobinder destructor
[studio] Fix 'Browse' buttons not working
[library/luashader] Auto correct HLSL swizzling
[uwp] Update certificate
[Studio] Fix simple word highlighter
[Studio] Revert replace function with a minor change - clean one
[plugin/rp3d] Fix event listener
[ios] fix Metal shaders

Download it from here:
http://giderosmobile.com/download

MoKaLux

May I add:
- new Color Picker in the toolbar (highlight a hex color in your code and click the button = magik)
- wrap/unwrap lines in the toolbar too
- new append toolbar to menu in preferences

Thanks for your hard work people

Viva Gideros

hgy29

Indeed @MoKaLux, I forgot those nice additions by @hito9, thanks to you both.

hito9

Thank you everyone and especially @hgy29 for the great features and more.

hgy29

I just released 2022.5.1, there were a few important bugs to fix

Yan

hgy29 said:

I just released 2022.5.1, there were a few important bugs to fix

Is RT ^2 there? ))))

hgy29

Yan said:

Is RT ^2 there? ))))

Yes!

gamedevid

*delete*
sorry wrong place(?)
i put here http://forum.giderosmobile.com/discussion/8563/no-qt-platform-plugin-error/p1?new=1

MoKaLux

hey guys there is no gtween.png in C:\Program Files\Gideros\Resources\start\images
https://github.com/gideros/gideros/blob/1c4583c4e024d8b4925e65cc7b31b39676aa69a9/ui/Resources/start/examples.xml#L45

I took an image from gtween example if you want to put it there

MoKaLux

It seems something has changed for TextField.new(...)
TextField.new(font,text,sample,layout)
Now, if you give sample a value this will crash your app! Tested with Gideros 2022.5.1
Example that makes Gideros 2022.5.1 crash:

local text = TextField.new(nil, "hello", "hello") stage:addChild(text)

cf: https://github.com/gideros/gideros/blob/5292e2d5884bd67dd3216090d58bc1d39eb39dba/luabinding/textfieldbinder.cpp#L51

Is this the new way to go?
TextField.new(font,text,layout)
(will update the wiki as soon as somebody confirm )

hgy29

MoKaLux said:

Now, if you give sample a value this will crash your app! Tested with Gideros 2022.5.1

It was a bug, fixed in https://github.com/gideros/gideros/commit/fb3ea5dc684136361acb990d5fef3ad71ec2c276

rrraptor

Destructors does not work anymore?

local function destructor(...) print("destructor call", ...) end   local Foo = Core.class() local Bar = Core.class(Foo, nil, destructor)   bar = Bar.new()   Timer.delayedCall(1000, function() print("deleted?") bar = nil collectgarbage() end)

hgy29

It seems so. I digged a bit and it is due to the switch to luau, which removed __gc metamethod and restrict the use of destructors to native code. I will try to patch luau to make destructors available again in some form.
Luau explanation: https://luau-lang.org/sandbox#__gc

rrraptor

hgy29 said:

It seems so. I digged a bit and it is due to the switch to luau, which removed __gc metamethod and restrict the use of destructors to native code. I will try to patch luau to make destructors available again in some form.
Luau explanation: https://luau-lang.org/sandbox#__gc

Well, its not realy usefull I think, so maybe we can remove it aswell?)

Btw, found another bug. You cant remove event listener with "removeEventListener" function.
"removeAllListeners" works fine.

local TestScene = Core.class(Sprite)   function TestScene:init() self.timer = 0 self:addEventListener("enterFrame", self.update, self) end   function TestScene:update(e) self.timer += e.deltaTime if (self.timer > 0.1) then print("Update") self.timer = 0 end end   function TestScene:removeListener() self:removeEventListener("enterFrame", self.update) end   local scene = TestScene.new()   Timer.delayedCall(1000, function() print("!!! Remove !!!") scene:removeListener() end)

Outputs:

Update
Update
!!! Remove !!!
Update
Update

MoKaLux

Thank you all for your hard work on Gideros

I don't know if you realize guys BUT we have the best Gideros Studio EVER

May I ask if r3d will be working on mobile and html5? It used to work before on those platforms but maybe Luau broke something (you can test with official r3d demo).

I have no clue how to fix this myself and the only thing I can help is this android log https://forum.gideros.rocks/discussion/comment/66763/#Comment_66763

FYI I have updated android player with gideros 2022.5.1 PR https://github.com/mokalux/gideros-player-for-android

Thank you.

PS: it is not urgent at all I am working in 2d atm

MoKaLux

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unlying

Hi. 2022.5.1 Crashes for me when i'm trying to use datasaver. May be i'm doing something wrong, but it works before.

line 71 is:
data = dataSaver.loadValue("data")



main.lua:71: attempt to call a nil value
stack traceback:
main.lua:71: in function main.lua:1

keszegh

@unlying , perhaps this is the first version you try since switch to luau. see comments mentioning datasaver in https://forum.giderosmobile.com/discussion/8532/gideros-2022-1-released#latest how to make it work.

unlying

Thank you. It works. It started to works in player. But after export i can only see whitescreen.



5481-5503/com.debia.cashback D/HostConnection: HostComposition ext ANDROID_EMU_CHECKSUM_HELPER_v1 ANDROID_EMU_native_sync_v2 ANDROID_EMU_native_sync_v3 ANDROID_EMU_native_sync_v4 ANDROID_EMU_dma_v1 ANDROID_EMU_direct_mem ANDROID_EMU_host_composition_v1 ANDROID_EMU_host_composition_v2 ANDROID_EMU_YUV_Cache ANDROID_EMU_async_unmap_buffer ANDROID_EMU_sync_buffer_data GL_OES_EGL_image_external_essl3 GL_OES_vertex_array_object GL_KHR_texture_compression_astc_ldr ANDROID_EMU_host_side_tracing ANDROID_EMU_async_frame_commands ANDROID_EMU_gles_max_version_3_0
2022-05-30 16:42:45.127 5481-5513/com.debia.cashback D/EGL_emulation: eglMakeCurrent: 0x76a0a94c13d0: ver 3 0 (tinfo 0x76a2b993f100) (first time)
2022-05-30 16:42:45.148 5481-5513/com.debia.cashback D/Gideros: GL Version 3.000000 (ES)
2022-05-30 16:42:45.148 5481-5513/com.debia.cashback D/Gideros: GL_VERSION:OpenGL ES 3.0 (4.1 ATI-4.6.21)
2022-05-30 16:42:45.150 5481-5513/com.debia.cashback D/Gideros: GLSL_VERSION:OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00
2022-05-30 16:42:45.395 5481-5513/com.debia.cashback E/emuglGLESv2_enc: device/generic/goldfish-opengl/system/GLESv2_enc/GL2Encoder.cpp:s_glFramebufferRenderbuffer:2959 GL error 0x502
2022-05-30 16:42:45.395 5481-5513/com.debia.cashback E/emuglGLESv2_enc: device/generic/goldfish-opengl/system/GLESv2_enc/GL2Encoder.cpp:s_glFramebufferRenderbuffer:2959 GL error 0x502
2022-05-30 16:42:45.397 5481-5513/com.debia.cashback E/emuglGLESv2_enc: device/generic/goldfish-opengl/system/GLESv2_enc/GL2Encoder.cpp:s_glDetachShader:2134 GL error 0x501
2022-05-30 16:42:45.642 5481-5481/com.debia.cashback V/EBE: OCI:0 SS:-1 SE:-1
2022-05-30 16:42:45.778 5481-5481/com.debia.cashback V/EBE: OCI:0 SS:-1 SE:-1
2022-05-30 16:42:45.837 5481-5513/com.debia.cashback E/emuglGLESv2_enc: device/generic/goldfish-opengl/system/GLESv2_enc/GL2Encoder.cpp:s_glFramebufferRenderbuffer:2959 GL error 0x502
2022-05-30 16:42:45.837 5481-5513/com.debia.cashback E/emuglGLESv2_enc: device/generic/goldfish-opengl/system/GLESv2_enc/GL2Encoder.cpp:s_glFramebufferRenderbuffer:2959 GL error 0x502

hgy29

@unlying, I don't see anything obviously wrong in your log (those GL error are usual), can you send me a bigger log ?

unlying

Full log

E1e5en

Starting from version 2022.1, running on Windows 7 SP1 is not possible. Swears at the library “api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll”. On a PC, there are a lot of Redistributable dependencies.
I understand that this version of the OS is no longer relevant, but I inform you.
In the description on the download site, the system requirements are Windows 7. This may raise questions.

hgy29

Helpful ? https://github.com/cristianadam/api-ms-win-core-synch-Win7

MoKaLux

unlying said:

Full log

wild guess
I/ALÂ lib: Failed to set 22050hz, got 48000hz instead

try testing your app without sound and see if it is causing the crash?

hgy29

unlying said:

Full log

Thanks, but I really meant a full unfiltered log. Crashes aren’t reported in filtered logs. You can PM it to me if security is a concern.
Where did I read it crashed ? You said blank screen, so is there any sound or something that would indicate that the app is running ? If not then maybe it assets weren’t exported correctly, can you share an export log from Gideros ?

E1e5en

hgy29 said:

Helpful ? https://github.com/cristianadam/api-ms-win-core-synch-Win7

I can't test it at the moment. I just happened to be on a PC with this OS version for a while and decided to try it. Windows 11 is installed on my main laptop.
As soon as I succeed, I will definitely try to check.

unlying

Export log. Yes it is just blank screen. Not crash.
There wasn't any sound playing. But there were two sound files in project. Sound was removed, but result still same - blank screen on start

MoKaLux

...
Android SDK Version:32
Android Build Tools:30.0.2
...

Try with android 30 not 32?

E1e5en

hgy29 said:

Helpful ? https://github.com/cristianadam/api-ms-win-core-synch-Win7

It did not help, it gives the error "the entry point to the CreateDXGIFactory procedure was not found in the library dxgi.dll ".
Now I am checking this by connecting to a remote machine via AnyDesk (suddenly it will affect).

rrraptor

@hgy29 Ive notices new version tag. When do you plan to build it? I found and fixed a serious bug related to fonts loading in ImGui. Ill create a PR later.

hgy29

Well next versions changes are more things that I needed for my own projects, and only partially implemented but 100% functional. But it also comes with more general bug fixes and improvements so I'll wait for your PR and build/publish right after.