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Re:Blender 2.80 by tomxor on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:41PM (#20567205)
> if Apple put the smallest amount of effort into maintaining their OpenGL drivers

They ditched OpenGL? how does that work?

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Re:Blender 2.80 by anchpop on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:48PM (#20567293)
Apple has deprecated OpenGL on all its devices: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12894/apple-deprecates-opengl...
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Re:Blender 2.80 by rhapsodyv on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:54PM (#20567365)
Noob question: There's a way to write a OpenGL drive that uses Metal underneath?
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Re:Blender 2.80 by danudey on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @04:51PM (#20568997)
The same company which originally built MoltenVK built MoltenGL for specifically this purpose.

https://moltengl.com/moltengl/

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Re:Blender 2.80 by rhapsodyv on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @08:15AM (#20573733)
Awesome! Maybe some company like that could offer their driver for free to blender community, as a marketing strategy. I believe that even have some space to a sector giant (like autodesk) acquire this type of company.
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Re:Blender 2.80 by tollyx on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @02:08PM (#20567505)
It's probably possible yes.

I don't know if one already exist for OpenGL, but for Vulkan there's MoltenVK: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK

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