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Advanced Projects • A new Advanced collection of projects shows off what the modern renderer can do: • Mini City shows off voxel model loading and 3D rendering • Mercury creates liquid-like particles which reflect your environment • Portal Pool shows off a PBR rendered pool table… with portals • And we've revived our voxel engine for the modern runtime, with more to come iPhone Duo Support • Codea is ready for iPhone Duo. The project browser, create screen, editor and reference all adapt to the fold and to each pose • Your projects can respond too: read hinge.angle or define hingeChanged(current, previous) to react as the device folds, and use layout.orientation to check the current orientation Symbols • Create images from any SF Symbol with image.symbol("globe") • Choose weights, rendering modes and variable values, and recolor symbols with tint() • The code editor includes a symbol picker to browse and insert symbols, and it works on both the legacy and modern runtimes • See the new SF Symbols example Image Playground • Use pick.playground("a red panda astronaut") to open Image Playground from your code and get back the image or Genmoji the user creates • Requires a device with Apple Intelligence Microphone in Modern Codea • The mic API is now available in Modern Codea • Call mic.start() and read mic.amplitude and mic.frequency to build projects that respond to sound IMPROVEMENTS More New APIs • shape() now builds a single path from its drawing commands • font.metrics() reports metrics for the current font • image.type replaces the cubeMap and isVolume flags, and image.smooth joins image.filter • Modern Codea can load legacy .shader bundles • Native text rendering is now the default in Modern Codea • Lua's warn() now prints to the output pane • HEIC images are supported, and image loading respects EXIF orientation FIXES • Fixes editor issues that could cause text corruption or lost edits • Fixes crashes in Craft projects • The output pane now collapses repeated messages and stays responsive with lots of output • Improves memory handling for image-heavy projects, and images too large for the GPU now raise an error instead of crashing • Projects can now be stopped cleanly while a picker or other modal is showing • Many stability and performance improvements across the editor and runtime