Metal for Developers

Documentation

• MetalKit Framework Reference The MetalKit framework makes it even easier to integrate Metal into your apps by providing essential APIs for controlling drawing and loading graphic assets.
• Metal Performance Shaders Framework Reference This framework contains a collection of optimized compute and graphics shaders that can be easily and efficiently integrated into your app.
• Metal Programming Guide Learn the fundamental concepts of Metal and see how to set hardware state, submit commands, manage buffers and texture objects, and more.
• Metal Shading Language Guide See how to use the Metal unified graphics and compute shading language to write code that is executed on the GPU.
• Metal Framework Reference Find the classes and APIs for using Metal in your game.

Sample Code

• MetalKitEssentials Shows how to use MetalKit View, Texture Loader, and Model I/O.
• MetalPerformanceShadersHelloWorld An Introduction to the MetalPerformanceShaders framework.
• MetalVideoCapture Stream captured video textures from an iOS device's camera into a 3D scene rendered with Metal.
• MetalBasic3D Renders a set of cubes using Metal and alternates their colors each frame.
• MetalTexturedQuad Shows how to create a textured quad in Metal.
• MetalVertexStreaming Streams vertex data using memory shared by the CPU and GPU.
• MetalUniformStreaming Demonstrates using a data buffer to set uniforms for Metal vertex and fragment shaders.
• MetalImageProcessing Performs a simple compute post-processing pass using Metal.
• MetalDeferredLighting Demonstrates a deferred lighting algorithm using Metal.
• MetalShaderShowcase Demonstrates a variety of visual techniques optimized with Metal.