It seems to me that supporting Metal with a fallback to OpenGL for older versions might be equivalent to such a fallback for when a Vulkan implementation of the viewport gets rolled out. I have no idea how close that is yet. But I’m excited for an aggressive move forward to Vulkan and Metal since that will facilitate many new capabilities.
I suppose I’m voting for the 3rd option for now, even though it might be more work. That is unless new features enabled by Vulkan and Metal are forthcoming. I suspect those are far off so Metal only offers performance benefits for newer platforms. ~chuck Chuck Ocheret http://www.linkedin.com/in/ocheret > On Jan 5, 2023, at 10:09 AM, Jeroen Bakker via Bf-committers > <bf-committers@blender.org> wrote: > > Hello all, > > A few weeks ago we enabled the Metal back-end for the viewport. By default > Blender will start using OpenGL, but in the User preferences the Metal > backend can be enabled. The first responses and test are very positive and > currently it is very likely that Metal will be released as a secondary > backend in Blender 3.5. > > Currently Master is only able to build on MacOS 10.15 and above due this > change. The current minimum requirement is MacOS 10.13. > > So there are some options to consider here. > * Do we release blender 3.5 with Metal Backend? > * Do we bump the minimum version from 10.13 to 10.15 for Blender 3.5? > * Add logic in many places to make sure that 10.15 code-paths aren't used > when run in 10.13? > > Sergey mentioned that there are already ideas to bump the version to 10.15 > for Blender 3.6. So this proposal is to do this one release earlier. > > My proposal would be to do the version bump for Blender 3.5 due to these > reasons. > Would like to have some feedback if this is acceptable. > > Jeroen. > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > List details, subscription details or unsubscribe: > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org List details, subscription details or unsubscribe: https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
