Gideros 2026.4 released

hgy29

Hi Giderians,

A new release of Gideros is available, mainly a bug fix one.
Here are the changes:

Improvements
[export/win32] Allow selecting console mode instead of outputing both binaries
[export/win32] Can now pack assets in a GApp file

Fixes
[styles] Fix styled width/height/insets in setLayoutXXX functions
[export/apple] Fix incorrect screen size on player reload

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

MoKaLux

it is also worth noting for ios users:
- update ios SKAdNetworkItems keys

as suggested by (at)John😉.
https://forum.gideros.rocks/discussion/8847/admob-skadnetwork-values-are-out-of-date

Viva Gideros!

Xman

I found iOS project exported from release 2025.9 in landscape will not display correctly when running from Xcode 26.4 yesterday.
I will try this release to check that issue.

Xman

It seems it's not possible to export iOS support both landscape left and right, it will not rotate. Is it the new iOS system changed something for orientation?

Xman

Another issue: the value return by application:getDeviceSafeArea(true) is not correct if orientation only support landscape left and right. that cause landscape game in iOS will not display correctly if position items depending on this value.

hgy29

@Xman, yes recent iOS introduced the support of multi windows and thus broke the direct relation there used to be between the app window and the screen. I tried my best to replicate the old behavior, but I have to admit it looks like tweaks. I tested it extensively though, and I thought I had all cases covered.

The project graphics settings have changed too, so before I dig further, can you double check you set 'Orientation' to 'Landscape' and 'Autorotation' to 'Normal and upside-down' ?

Xman

set 'Orientation' to 'Landscape Left
and 'Autorotation' to 'Normal

hgy29

Xman said:

set 'Orientation' to 'Landscape Left
and 'Autorotation' to 'Normal

The autorotation settings are:
- Normal orientation: allow only the orientation set in "Orientation" field (call it 0°).
- Normal and upside-down: allow two orientations, 0° and 180°
- All orientations: allow 0°,90°,180° and 270° rotations
- OS Fixed orientation: let the system decide, this is only meaningful for android and maps to the "nosensor" orienation mode.

So if you want both landscape right and left, you should use "Normal and upside down" in Autorotation.

Xman

Take the demo project Bird Animation for test. when set autorotation to Normal and upside-down or All orientations, the content will not rotate.

Xman

And the value returned by application:getLogicalBounds() or application:getDeviceSafeArea(true) is not correct as before.
project setting 640 * 960, letterbox landscape left Normal and upside-down, run on iPhone 12 max, the return value is
0 -719.3599853515625 960 1359.3599853515625

in portrait project it is correct
0 -88.8888931274414 640 1048.888916015625

Also application:getLogicalTranslateY() is not correct.

Xman

And it will not run in fullscreen even add launch.storyboard. Also the status bar always show.

hgy29

@Xman,
I think I found the issue about autorotation in iOS, I managed to reproduce the problem and I have a fix for it, meanwhile there is a workaround in lua whis is to call application:setOrientation(application:getDeviceOrientation()) after EVENT_RESIZE whenever getDeviceOrientation() returns a landscape orientation different from current orientation.

For your logicalbounds/safe area issues, it looks to me like your iphone started the app in portrait and you called the functions before ios/gideros changed the device orientation to the correct one. You could try to wait delay your init code a bit or recompute things after an EVENT_RESIZE event, or try to enable only landscape orientations in Xcode project / General settings.

To enable fullscreen, include the 'require' plugin and tick the appropriate box (Support non rectangular (notch) screen shapes).

And for the status bar, there is an application:set("statusBar",nil) call you can try, but I will investigate too since it should have been hidden by default in fullscreen mode.

hgy29

Just made some more tests about safe display area, and it turns out iOS doesn't report correct values on app start, screen layout is done asynchronously. Best option is to listen for EVENT_RESIZE and get safe area insets there

Xman

the full screen and status bar issues are fixed by including the 'require'.

Xman

try to enable only landscape orientations in Xcode project / General settings.

It's already set only landscape left and right yesterday and it return the wrong value.
the values get after first event of resize is not correct.
And the following resize event comes much later.
It's hard to set ui correctly on start up.
When rotate the device, a rotate animation will play and the content will be upside down.

Xman

think I found the issue about autorotation in iOS, I managed to reproduce the problem and I have a fix for it, meanwhile there is a workaround in lua whis is to call application:setOrientation(application:getDeviceOrientation()) after EVENT_RESIZE whenever getDeviceOrientation() returns a landscape orientation different from current orientation.

It will report several events resized and getDeviceOrientation return portrait until you rotate the device event if my exported iOS project only checked landscape. After you rotate the device, the workaround works.

MoKaLux

You can use emojis in Gideros Studio and it shows in the console as well 💌

function Plane:mapTexture(texture,sw,sh,normal) if not texture then print("🛑Error mapping texture. Please check texture.") self:updateMode(0,Mesh3D.MODE_TEXTURE) return else

PS: tested on Windows 10, using the shortcut WIN+.

Viva Gideros Studio!

MoKaLux

please hgy29, could you consider this PR for the next Gideros release please?
https://github.com/gideros/gideros/pull/576

While documenting 3D for the wiki I "updated" the 3DShapes.lua.

-- a shape local ground = D3.PlaneV2.new(0.81*8, 0.21*8) -- (width,depth) local tex = Texture.new("models/textures/forrest_ground_01_diff_1k.jpg", nil, { wrap=Texture.REPEAT, } ) local normal = Texture.new("models/textures/forrest_ground_01_nor_gl_1k.jpg", nil, { wrap=Texture.REPEAT, } ) local texsx, texsy = 0.7*8, 0.7*8 -- texture scaling ground:mapTexture(tex, texsx, texsy, normal) ground:updateMode(D3.Mesh.MODE_LIGHTING + D3.Mesh.MODE_SHADOW) scene:addChild(ground)   -- more shapes --local cube = D3.CubeV2.new(0.2*8, 0.2*8, 0.2*8) -- (w,h,d) local cube = D3.CubeV2.new() -- (w,h,d) cube:mapColor(0xffff00) -- (color,[alpha=1]) texsx, texsy = 0.01*8, 0.01*8 -- texture scaling cube:mapTexture(tex, texsx, texsy, normal) cube:setPosition(-0.1*8, cube.dims.h/2, 0.0*8) cube:updateMode(D3.Mesh.MODE_LIGHTING + D3.Mesh.MODE_SHADOW) scene:addChild(cube)   --local pyramid = D3.PyramidV2.new(0.2*8, 0.2*8) -- (diameter,height) local pyramid = D3.PyramidV2.new() -- (diameter,height) pyramid:mapColor(0xff5500) -- (color,[alpha=1]) texsx, texsy = 0.025*8, 0.025*8 -- texture scaling pyramid:mapTexture(tex, texsx, texsy, normal) pyramid:setPosition(0.3*8, pyramid.dims.h/2, 0.0*8) pyramid:updateMode(D3.Mesh.MODE_LIGHTING + D3.Mesh.MODE_SHADOW) scene:addChild(pyramid)

Thank you 😊

MoKaLux

(at)hgy29, I went the easy way 🤷‍♂️:
- I left the previous shapes untouched
- I added the extension V2 for the "new" shapes (PlaneV2, BoxV2, ...)

While adding normal mapping and using the half extents look cool, I am not sure about the proper way to code it so I won't make a PR 😢.

Here is the file ready to replace 3DShapes.lua

Thank you