Documentation

• 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

• 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.