Construct your individual low-level recreation engine in Metallic!
Metallic is a unified utility programming interface (API) for the graphics processing unit, or GPU. It’s unified as a result of it applies to each 3D graphics and data-parallel computation paradigms. Metallic is a low-level API as a result of it supplies programmers near-direct entry to the GPU. Lastly, Metallic is a low-overhead API as a result of it reduces the central processing unit (CPU) price by multi-threading and pre-compiling of sources.
However past the technical definition, Metallic is essentially the most applicable manner to make use of the GPU’s parallel processing energy to visualise information or clear up numerical challenges. It’s additionally tailor-made for use for machine studying, picture/video processing or, as this e book describes, graphics rendering.
This e book will introduce you to low-level graphics programming in Metallic — Apple’s framework for programming on the graphics processing unit (GPU). As you progress by way of this e book, you’ll be taught most of the fundamentals that go into making a recreation engine and steadily put collectively your individual engine. As soon as your recreation engine is full, you’ll be capable of put collectively 3D scenes and program your individual easy 3D video games. Since you’ll have constructed your 3D recreation engine from scratch, you’ll be capable of customise each facet of what you see in your display screen.
This e book is for intermediate Swift builders all for studying 3D graphics or gaining a deeper understanding of how recreation engines work.
