Adjusting the level of detail using Metal mesh shaders

Overview

Configure the sample code project

To run this sample, you need Xcode 14 or later, and a physical device that supports MTLGPUFamily.mac2 or MTLGPUFamily.apple7, such as:

• A Mac running macOS 13 or later

• An iOS device with an A15 chip or later running iOS 16 or later

This sample can only run on a physical device because it uses mesh shader features, which Simulator doesn’t support.

See Also

Render workflows

• Using Metal to draw a view’s contents
• Drawing a triangle with Metal 4
• Selecting device objects for graphics rendering
• Customizing render pass setup
• Creating a custom Metal view
• Calculating primitive visibility using depth testing
• Encoding indirect command buffers on the CPU
• Implementing order-independent transparency with image blocks
• Loading textures and models using Metal fast resource loading
• Creating a 3D application with hydra rendering
• Culling occluded geometry using the visibility result buffer
• Improving edge-rendering quality with multisample antialiasing (MSAA)
• Achieving smooth frame rates with a Metal display link