since metal for mac os is quite a while out in the wild and its advantages rather obvious, i would like to know a few specifics how this is going to look like and when we could see an implementation of this on our screens. is it still going to happen for Rhino 6 or will we have to wait for Version 7…

Looking at my crystal ball I’m targeting Rhino 8 for metal. We will be writing code in Rhino 7 that gets us prepped to switch over to metal as that in itself is a large task.

Thank you for the reply! Fair enough, it’s a shame that things have gone proprietary on the mac side but I am sure the benefits will be immense when they do arrive.

hi @stevebaer thanks for the fast response but oh my… i think that crystal ball needs a bit of a polish… :face_with_raised_eyebrow: or maybe its just playing a good one on us? :lying_face: i can understand that metal did not enter the version 5 anymore since that was basically done when it came out…

[image] danieljgrilli: it’s a shame that things have gone proprietary on the mac why is that?

[image] encephalon: but not even having it in version 7 is rather very disappointing now. Out of curiosity: Why is that? From what I have seen Metal isn’t vastly faster than OpenGL, it just has more modern features, so what would your benefits be? IMO moving from a stable dinosaur to a new s…

[image] encephalon: […] maybe we have to start putting up a wish list for this already? Our tracking system already has 6579 items for “Future” releases: https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issues?q=State:%20Unresolved%20Release%20target:%20Future

Open GL was never really the fastest horse in the stable and does not perform anywhere near the Windows performance. Not noticeable to the most but for gamers and professionals, even myself i am basically only talking out of read up experience. But from what i read is Metal supposed to be quite a bi…

[image] wim: “Future” yeah.. that is a pretty rough but equally infinite schedule, could also mean Rhino 9-ty..

I use macs as well, but not for modelling because my workstation is vastly superior on large projects because of IFC plugins and handling of big files. And I would use my mac laptop for modelling if it could use all the tools I have on my windows side. [image] encephalon: if not why the interes…

which other tools would you miss for example? not sure how advanced the rhino wip 7 for win is compared to wip 6 for mac in regards of subd but i thought there are some workable basics there to at least cover this in its current state. i am personally missing plugins for GIS data visualisation in g…

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talks about how metal in mac with a configuration which is weaker is beating the crap out of all other pc laptops, at about 3.40

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