Any document available for migrating to Metal?

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  April 2020

  Enabling Metal should be enough. It doesn't disable OpenGL though, but allows Gideros to select Metal back end at runtime if it is available.
  About your upside down image issue, can you trace it/ come up with a short piece of code that exhibits the issue ?

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• Xman Member

  April 2020

  Then the warning is reasonable and can just be ignored?
  
  What about the crash in simulator?
  
  I did several times to export the project with enabled and disabled the metal, and the upside down only happened when enabled. I will provide some useful information after check my code.

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  April 2020

  I don't know about the crash in the simulator. Actually my Mac doesn't support Metal (it is a very old Mac Mini), so I can't test Metal in the simulator at all

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• Xman Member

  April 2020

  the upside down issue happens when I use a RenderTarget to draw an image.

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  April 2020

  Thanks, there is probably a bug in the Metal backend then. It should be easy to fix, and I'll do it ASAP.

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• Xman Member

  April 2020 edited April 2020

  Is it necessary to update the iOS app to metal? Will it be required for App Store in near future?

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  April 2020

  Ask apple

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• Xman Member

  April 2020

  
  I'm just curious whether metal apps are common in the app store currently.
  

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  April 2020

  Frankly I don't know, I wrote the Metal backend because OpenGL was deprecated two years ago, but the industry in general wasn't ready to switch to Metal, so Apple had to keep it longer. I am not sure how Metal is supported today by other popuilar frameworks (Unity in particular), but until it is fully supported by major engines, OpenGL will continue to be available on iOS devices.

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• Xman Member

  April 2020

  No matter the metal is enabled or disabled, after removing the OpenGLES.framework, the warning disappeared.
  Is this framework redundant and can be removed safely?

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• Xman Member

  April 2020

  For the crash info for simulator:
  
  iOS[82958:10107956] -[MTLTextureDescriptorInternal validateWithDevice:], line 1414: error 'MTLTextureDescriptor: Depth, Stencil, DepthStencil, and Multisample textures must be allocated with the MTLStorageModePrivate or MTLStorageModeMemoryless storage mode.'
  

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  April 2020

  I don't think you can remove the OpenGL framework, even though the app won't use it if metal is selected, gideros calls to opengl are still compiled. Remember that Metal is currently just an experiment, to allow users to check their app is working. Once stable, Gideros will probably remove OpenGL support for iOS.
  I take note about your issue with the simulator, but I have no way of checking the result of a possible fix.

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• Xman Member

  April 2020 edited April 2020

  But even metal is not enable, after removing the OpenGLES.framework, it still works.

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• trojanfoe Member

  April 2020 edited April 2020

  I have some experience with Metal and to get it working on macOS, iOS and iOS Simulator you will need to use different storage modes for the buffers (because of how the memory is wired-up differently between the CPU and GPU on a Mac or iPhone). This is normally a compile-time constant (by way of TargetConditionals.h), but not sure how to accomplish that with Gideros, as I am just beginning to use it.
  
  Metal is commonly used on the App Store and all phones since iPhone 6s support it, but I don't see why you would remove OpenGLES anytime soon.
  
  Unity has provided a Metal backend for a while now.

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  April 2020

  In the end Apple forced me to invest in a new Mac, since Xcode 11 will be required in order to compile apps for iOS starting next month, and Xcode 11 requires OSX Catalina which is not available on my Mac Mini 2010. I shall receive my brand new Mac Mini 2020 in a month or so, so I'll be able to debug issues with simulator, Metal and whatever new requirements apple set up in the future.

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• keszegh Member

  April 2020

  @hgy29 , please test then a bit the double-finger scroll issue on macs i noted in the forum recently (athoug i think it happens on an old mac actually).

  Longtitle Productions, creator of
  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  April 2020

  @keszegh, how am I supposed to even do a single finger scroll on a Mac Mini ?

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• keszegh Member

  April 2020 edited April 2020

  i mean on the touchpad, see http://forum.giderosmobile.com/discussion/comment/62669/#Comment_62669 .

  Longtitle Productions, creator of
  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  April 2020

  I mean, there is no touchpad on a Mac Mini

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• keszegh Member

  April 2020

  @hgy29, sorry for my ignorance, i thought it's a macbook you have (mini whatever), i forgot about desktop macs existing. (as i never had any mac or i... devices myself)

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  Longtitle Productions, creator of
  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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