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I've not heard of any games or VR software released to the market that use Metal yet. I've heard it mentioned about projects still in development but so far th

by Lio 10y ago

I've not heard of any games or VR software released to the market that use Metal yet. I've heard it mentioned about projects still in development but so far that's all. Do you have any examples of things using it?

pjmlp 10y ago
Some games: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vainglory/id671464704?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vainglory/id671464704?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sky-gamblers-storm-raiders/id574375380?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sky-gamblers-storm-raiders/i... https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/radiation-island/id923760656?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/radiation-island/id923760656... https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/asphalt-8-airborne/id610391947?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/asphalt-8-airborne/id6103919... Adobe After Effects https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/after-effects-cc-2015-3-in-depth-gpu-accelerated-effects/ https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/after-effects-cc-2015-... Adobe Premier Pro https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/up-next-for-premiere-pro-cc-and-media-encoder-cc/ https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/up-next-for-premiere-p...
- shmerl 10y ago
  Apple's hardware can't even handle serious VR, so the usefulness of spending time on Metal for it is quite moot.
- Lio 10y ago
  Sorry I should have been more specific, I meant macOS. Still it's cool that Adobe are using it.
jzl 10y ago
Both Unity and Unreal Engine (UE4) supports Metal, so any games created in Unity/UE4 for Mac & iOS might possibly use it. If the game doesn't need anything beyond GL 3 support then the creator might choose to not enable Metal and stick with GL. I don't know what percentage of Unity/UE4 Mac & iOS games have Metal enabled, but it is potentially a very large number. That's the thing about Metal -- as long as common libraries and game engines add support for it, most developers won't have to do much additional work to use it. Only people who are writing their own graphics engine from scratch would need to learn it.
- shmerl 10y ago
  See example above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13221395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13221395 Not everyone is going to spend resources on implementing a redundant API. Apple are just being their usual lock-in jerks by not supporting OpenGL and Vulkan.

by Lio 10y ago

pjmlp 10y ago

Some games: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vainglory/id671464704?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vainglory/id671464704?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sky-gamblers-storm-raiders/id574375380?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sky-gamblers-storm-raiders/i... https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/radiation-island/id923760656?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/radiation-island/id923760656... https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/asphalt-8-airborne/id610391947?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/asphalt-8-airborne/id6103919... Adobe After Effects https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/after-effects-cc-2015-3-in-depth-gpu-accelerated-effects/ https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/after-effects-cc-2015-... Adobe Premier Pro https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/up-next-for-premiere-pro-cc-and-media-encoder-cc/ https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/up-next-for-premiere-p...

shmerl 10y ago
Apple's hardware can't even handle serious VR, so the usefulness of spending time on Metal for it is quite moot.
Lio 10y ago
Sorry I should have been more specific, I meant macOS. Still it's cool that Adobe are using it.

jzl 10y ago

Both Unity and Unreal Engine (UE4) supports Metal, so any games created in Unity/UE4 for Mac & iOS might possibly use it. If the game doesn't need anything beyond GL 3 support then the creator might choose to not enable Metal and stick with GL. I don't know what percentage of Unity/UE4 Mac & iOS games have Metal enabled, but it is potentially a very large number. That's the thing about Metal -- as long as common libraries and game engines add support for it, most developers won't have to do much additional work to use it. Only people who are writing their own graphics engine from scratch would need to learn it.

shmerl 10y ago
See example above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13221395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13221395 Not everyone is going to spend resources on implementing a redundant API. Apple are just being their usual lock-in jerks by not supporting OpenGL and Vulkan.