godot/drivers/metal

Metal Rendering Device

This document aims to describe the Metal rendering device implementation in Godot.

Future work / ideas

• Use placement heaps
• Explicit hazard tracking
• MetalFX upscaling support?

Acknowledgments

The Metal rendering owes a lot to the work of the MoltenVK project, which is a Vulkan implementation on top of Metal. In accordance with the Apache 2.0 license, the following copyright notices have been included where applicable:

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