The visual storytelling of Shadow Of The Colossus’ map is far more compelling than staggering around in the cold, trying to shoot a stag with an irritatingly inaccurate bow and arrow, and Praey For The Gods would’ve been a lot better off without any of the survival elements at all.Prenez les mécaniques de Breath of the Wild et les colosses de Shadows of the Colossus dans un décor complétement nordique et vous obtiendrez Prenez les mécaniques de Breath of the Wild et les colosses de Shadows of the Colossus dans un décor complétement nordique et vous obtiendrez Praey for the Gods, qui pour ma part n'est pas mauvais loin de la, il a de bonnes idées en sois mais pas assez exploité. Shadow Of The Colossus is sometimes criticised for the fact that its open world has almost no other gameplay elements in it, beyond the boss battles themselves, which is strictly true but misses the point that the purpose of the landscape is to set the tone and atmosphere – not liberate enemy camps from an icon-filled map. To loaf an hour when the boss is absent and work which Or he pays for is to. 8 is very disappointing number for game developed so long. Arriving with only the clothes on your back, you must survive the colossal dangers that you encounter. Paradoxly final boss is actualy one of the easiest in whole game. Praey for the Gods is a boss climbing open world adventure game where you play as a lone hero sent to the edge of a dying frozen world to discover the mystery behind a never-ending winter. Fights are mostly aesy, only real problems are detection of weak points of boss and management of your stamina. ![]() Even if you are well equipped though, the melee combat is unsatisfyingly vague and spongy, so you quickly learn to just avoid it if at all possible. form Pray : That efficient leaders may be. Therere just 8 bosses with very similar fight mechanics as SOC had. ![]() Shadow of the Colossus is pretty much one of the best action-adventure games in the 2000s. ![]() You do encounter more minor enemies along the way but if you didn’t like the breakable weapons in Breath Of The Wild you’re going to hate this, as not only are they quicker to break but they do less damage the more broken they are, which means fights against even the lowest level of enemies can drag on for ages if they catch you at a bad moment. Praey for the Gods is an Open-World, Action-Adventure Survival game that draws inspiration from beloved titles like Shadow of the Colossus and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. There are a variety of bosses in Praey for the Gods. This whole aspect becomes almost instantly tiresome, as resources are in short supply and while there is an impressively large open world there’s nothing else of interest in it other than the gods, each of which operates like a giant boss battle. ![]() These survival elements extend to your equipment, all of which have a limited lifespan, even including things like the Zelda style hookshots. 1st Boss (Saytr) Praey for the Gods - All Bosses (8 Bosses) Rich Gameplay 4. Praey for the Gods Launch Trailer Praey for the Gods is a boss climbing open world adventure game where you play a lone hero sent to the edge of a dying frozen land to explore and solve the s.
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You can also choose a specific part of a song to include in your project by trimming it.ġ6) Sound Effects: Choose from many pre-defined sound effects.ġ7) Transitions: Select from a host of pre-defined video clip transitions.ġ8) Video Fade In/Out: Configure the fade-in and fade-out options in the Settings screen for the first and last shots.ġ9) Compress Video: Reduce video file size dramatically without reducing video resolution.Ģ0) Save Storage Space: Perfect Video only saves the video location so imported videos don’t take up valuable storage space (just DON'T DELETE the original video you're editing).Ģ1) High Resolution: Support for several formats, including 1920x1080HD, and support for up to 4K resolution on iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPad Air 2, iPad Pro and later.Ģ2) Share: Save your video to your Camera Roll or share it on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or via email.Ģ3) Instant Actions: All actions are performed in an instant manner. ġ1) Duplicate: Duplicate projects or create duplicates of video clips.ġ2) Animated Subtitles: Add animated text or images to videos.ġ3) Watermark: Display your own logo on video.ġ4) Volume: Mute the video or increase the video volume (0-500%).ġ5) Music: Add multiple songs to a project. ģ) Canvas background setting: Set the color or make background blur, or add a custom picture.Ĥ) Combine: Merge multiple videos, photos or text into one video clip.ĥ) Split: With this feature, you can remove the middle part of the video, speed up/down part of the video.Ħ) Video to picture: Extract still images from video via Split feature.Ĩ) Slow Motion: Slow down or speed up video (0.25x-6x).ĩ) Crop & Mirror & Flip & Rotate and Angle adjustment. Photo Motion: Set Ken Burns effect for photos.ġ) Importing Videos or Photos: Add multiple videos or photos to a project instantly.Ģ) Multiple canvas ratios: Video original size, 1:1, 4:5, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4, 19.5:9, 9:19.5, 3:2, 2:3, 2:1, 1:2, 2.39:1. Video Color: Adjust the video color (Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue,…) in a real-time manner.ħ). Seven of the most well-known Star Wars themes and melodies are included. ![]() Mosaic Video: Pixelate or blur or Highlighted a part in the video.Ħ. Written for easy recorder, this book features big, easy-to-read notes, a beginners guide to playing the recorder, and a clear, simple introduction to reading music. Chroma Key (Green/Blue Screen): Replace the video solid background with a video or photo.ĥ. Browse our selection of easily recognizable songs you can learn quickly. Split Screen: Playing two videos side-by-side.Ĥ. Easy-to-learn recorder sheet music is available at your fingertips via Musicnotes. ![]() Keyframe animations: Various editing operations can add key points.ģ. It lets you quickly Trim, Merge, Split, Reverse, Rotate, Mirror, Flip and Crop clips, add Subtitles, add Mosaic, add Watermark, Photos, and Text, pick Transitions, add Music and Recordings, and export your video clips.ġ. Perfect Video is a really EASY TO USE and Full featured video/slideshow editing app. ![]() What does it feel like to write with pure momentum? What comes out when you hurtle deeper and deeper without pausing to tweak or edit?įor those willing to set aside their preconceptions of how to write, they may find a companion in Flowstate: a single law that silences the analytical brain and amplifies a voice of candor. The only way to save your work is by writing until the timer ends.įlowstate is guided by a simple philosophy: flow, then react. If you exit early, or stop typing for longer than five seconds, all progress is lost. It frees the writer to turn on, tune in, and open up.Ĭhoose how long you want to write (5, 15, 30 min), then enter a flow session. ![]() Flowstate is a response to the amphetaminic digital age. Many sit down to write and watch hours vanish with nothing to show but a trail of browser tabs. The world is a hive of distractions, multi-tasking, and cultural ADD. SLATE | WIRED | THE NEXT WEB | THE VERGE | MASHABLE | ENGADGET | THE BOSTON GLOBE | HUFFINGTON POST | LIFEHACKER | GQ | BUSTLE | NOFILMSCHOOL | VOX MAGAZINE | DIGTAL TRENDS | MACWORLD | POPSUGAR | APP ADVICE | TECH TIMES | EXAMINER | PSFK | THE DAILY ORANGE | NEWSLEDGE | SPEIGEL VOX: “For the first time in my life, my fingers moved continuously across the keyboard for 15 minutes”īOSTON GLOBE: “Forces you into ‘the zone’ and keeps you there” MASHABLE: “Kept my nose to the grindstone better than any cup of coffee ever could” THE VERGE: “Among the cleanest and best designed note-taking apps I've ever used on iOS”ĭIGITAL TRENDS: “May force you into producing the best writing of your life” GQ: “One of the most powerful mechanisms to spur the imagination” I believe if I use this app ‘everyday’, it will help me become a better writer.HUFFINGTON POST: “An unparalleled writing experience” To stop that, when I make a spelling mistake I try to either retype it or if my fingers become all thumbs I hit return and start a new line. My problem is I still find myself doing spelling edits. The timer turns into a button that you click on to end the writing session, or if you prefer, just keep on writing (the good thing). One thing, when the time is up there’s no feedback, maybe that’s a good thing. For testing, I did a bunch of text returns to get me to the bottom of the page and kept on hitting return so it’s good to know that you will never run out of a page to type on. I like the way you can save your work as well as the different ways it can be saved, for example, by name, by date, etc. It’s fun to play around with how long you have before the text actually is gone. When typing I played with the text disappearing to the point where it was ‘almost’ totally gone, and resume typing to bring the text back in a-nick-of-time. Love the different times and fonts you can choose. Since this only works with EL Cap and higher I’m using Flowstate on my external SSD running the Sierra GM Beta. Review is coming from a Mac mini late 2012 running Yosemite with a SSD drive running macOS Sierra GM Beta. Your documents are synced across all devicesīest Way To Bring Out The Writer Within You ![]() ![]() HUFFINGTON POST: “An unparalleled writing experience” ![]() On the subscription FAQ page one of the first benefits Luxion cites is ‘reduced upfront cost to a pay-as-you-go model. If you are using a node-locked license of an earlier version of KeyShot you are still able to renew maintenance on those licenses for the time being for $500/yr. When you buy KeyShot 11 online, your license will automatically become subscription-based. Luxion doesn’t list subscription-based licenses as a feature of KeyShot 11, but I wanted to mention it here. Luxion demonstrates the KeyShot Web Viewer in KeyShot 11 Subscription-Based KeyShot Licenses Watch this introductory video Luxion made about the Web Viewer It sounds like those who’ve already paid the $1000 to add KeyShotWEB to their node-locked license may be offered some sort of deal/discount on a KeyShotWEB upgrade for their KeyShot 11 subscription licenses. The visual fidelity of models shared on the Web Viewer will be similar to KeyVR using rasterization and OpenGL instead of Ray Tracing you experience in KeyShot’s real-time view. KeyShot then generates an easy-to-share URL. To use this, just choose ‘Upload to KeyShot Web Viewer’ from the file menu. Then, you can upload KeyShot files to the KeyShot Web Viewer to interact and share scenes with others from any device, anywhere. Therefore, the web viewer is essentially a ‘subscription only’ feature. When you switch over to the subscription model of KeyShot, you’ll have the option to pay for KeyShotWEB for $468 per year. Check out this quick-start guide to learn more about scripting in KeyShot. However, for companies that need to produce thousands of images or configurations, this could be a great asset. I personally have never tried to perform scripting in KeyShot since I don’t know how to write python. Headless rendering extends the functionality of the scripting console by running KeyShot without a user interface. ![]() This is useful for some high-volume jobs that require automation. If you weren’t aware of it, KeyShot supports scripting in the language of Python. Luxion demonstrates Physics simulation in KeyShot 11 Headless RenderingĪnother feature, new to KeyShot 11 is headless rendering. ![]() I know I’ve had a slew of yeast infections, lots of bizarre bouts of discharge AND spotting between my periods in my 30 years of surviving planet earth. I mean, who the hell makes it to 25 without a yeast infection? Let’s be real: What girl survives a summer without at least two yeast infections in three months? And what girl creature hasn’t ever experienced the occasional, extra vaginal discharge? The trouble with most of these symptoms is that, even if you do have them, they can seem not-so-serious. White, some of the symptoms women can experience when they have chlamydia and gonorrhea are “yellow-green discharge, light bleeding between your periods and an occasional burning sensation while urinating.” If chlamydia and gonorrhea go untreated, they are likely to have extremely serious ramifications, which may be even more dire in women than in men.Īccording to Dr. However, kittens, don’t think for a minute that just because both chlamydia and gonorrhea don’t have symptoms we should just ignore them and toss them aside like yesterday’s People Magazine. ![]() She also explains that STIs are notoriously “biologically against women.” This means women under 25 years old are in the majority of people who have both chlamydia and gonorrhea. White explained both gonorrhea and chlamydia “don’t usually feel like anything.” “A lot of people think just because they feel fine, they are fine. White’s sobering truth: 90 percent of STI cases are asymptomatic, meaning they have no physical symptoms whatsoever.ĭr. ![]() Katharine O’Connell White, MD, MPH, and asked her to tell me exactly what the ever-mysterious gonorrhea and chlamydia feel like. So I decided it was time to break the chlamydia and gonorrhea silence and get some expert advice, and thank goodness I did, babes, because I learned a LOT. The top three STDs millennial men are worried about getting are HIV/AIDS (55 percent), herpes (24 percent) and genital warts/syphilis (both 7 percent).Ĭhlamydia and gonorrhea were nowhere in sight. It turns out, a lot of millennials have the same apathy toward chlamydia and gonorrhea I once had.Īccording to Elite Daily’s very own Sex Ed survey, the top three STDs millennial women are worried about getting are HIV/AIDS (50 percent), herpes (24 percent) and HPV (13 percent). ![]() I assumed as long as I felt (and looked) OK, then I was totally fine. Naturally, I heard about people getting it, but I was never really sure how I could get it or what the symptoms were. In high school, it was like these were feared, elusive and quiet diseases. I never really heard a ton about chlamydia or gonorrhea, though, so I didn’t seek out the knowledge often. Herpes has so many visible symptoms, it’s impossible not to think about, and HIV/AIDS had such a devastating impact on our culture, it’s been lingering in my brain forever. The STDs I’ve avoided confronting the most are chlamydia and gonorrhea. The truth will set you ~free~, babes (and keep you healthy). Now, I’m older and I know better, but sometimes the fear of STDs is so pressing, I would rather just avoid the whole topic entirely.īut I’ve come to realize that’s a stupid way to live your life, especially when it comes to STDs, where knowledge is fucking power, honey. I had this idea that anything sexual - even if it was something I did alone -would surely come with a terrible disease in tow. When I was in the third grade, I even convinced myself that I had AIDS from masturbating. (This was before the amazing medical advances we’ve made now.) Maybe it’s because I was an impressionable kid during the AIDS epidemic, and I watched many great artists I had admired from afar die from the virus way too young. I don’t know about all of you, but I grew up fearing sexually transmitted infections and diseases with every fiber of my pimply, adolescent being. This Is Exactly What Chlamydia And Gonorrhea Feel Like Oct 05, 2016 ![]() Cost: $129 plus it is FREE for a pastor’s spouse.Besides their main event in Orlando, Exponential creates a number of resources for church planters throughout the year. In 2022, the focus is around Moving With The Spirit to become a multiplying church. Exponential ConferenceĮach year, the Exponential Conference is focused around church planters looking to grow the influence and reach of their ministries. The three Cs in the name stands for the Creative Church Conference. Thousands of church leaders and influencers will descend on Fellowship Church outside of Dallas, Texas for this two-day leadership conference. The heart of Pastor Benny is to encourage and equip the local church so that we can reach more people together as the global church. Join Pastor Benny Tate for Defy the Odds church growth conference in 2022! Their hope for hosting this conference is to encourage church leaders in their current season by providing practical tools and resources for next-level growth. Cost: $49.99 per person and $39.99 group rate.In-person at Rock Springs Church in Milner, GA just south of Atlanta.Streaming live is no charge, but there’s also the opportunity to purchase a replay pass for $297. In more than 20 digital sessions, learn how to leverage social media, church websites, digital leadership, design creativity, and much more. One of the free online experiences on this list, the Engage Conference specifically focuses on tech strategies for church growth. This two-day event features a number of main stage sessions, focused breakouts, and opportunities to network with your fellow church leaders. Organized by the Compassion Christian Church in Savannah Georgia, the Next Level Church conference hopes to equip stronger churches in an ever-changing world. The 2021 Disciple Making Conference will take place at the Sharpsburg campus of Crossroads Church, about half an hour south of Atlanta. ![]() ![]() This is perfect for local church leaders looking to grow their own faith and impact the spiritual journey of others. Disciple Making SummitĪs its name suggests, this annual event is focused on multiplying churches and Jesus followers. The event is organized by Converge-a 165-year-old movement of churches that encourages churches to work together. Unleash ConferenceĪccording to the event’s website, Unleash is “a conference focused on growing every ministry and leader in your church.” Therefore, they offer workshops for any ministry track, including senior leaders, kids and student ministry, worship, hospitality, missions, communications, and more. If you are an organizer of any of these events and interested in having me Live Blog your conference, we can start a conversation at 1. ![]() Here are 20 Top Church Leadership Conferences to Attend in 2022, listed chronologically. His complete bio is after the list of conferences. There will likely still be a significant number of virtual or hybrid options, which is actually a benefit for leaders with a limited budget or limited travel time.Īlso, if you don’t know about Robert, you should. Our hope is that 2022 sees a decrease in COVID impact and an increase in our opportunity for in-person conferences. Both years were marred by a global pandemic, but the popularity of those two posts showed how much ministry leaders are still hungry for learning and community. Robert Carnes and I shared some of the top Christian leadership conferences to attend for both 20. Move in a line away from the first throw, throw the eye again, and check the direction.It will look in the direction of the Stronghold. The fastest way to find the Stronghold is to use the ender eye triangulation method: The End portal can be found in a special room in the stronghold. The only way to reach it is through the End portal. The Ender Dragon lives in its own dimension called the End, separated from the rest of the game world. Same as the ladder, useful for climbing pillars with end crystals on them. For mining end stone, which can be used to barricade yourself against attacks by endermen and the dragon. Useful for climbing pillars with end crystals, which you have to destroy during the fight. Before hitting the ground, use the water bucket to create a water block right below you, thus negating fall damage. The water bucket is useful for avoiding fall damage. To make it easier to orient yourself during the fight, and for avoiding endermen. For reducing fall damage during the fight. For gradual health restoration during the fight. For instant health restoration during the fight. Stock up on these to ensure full saturation throughout the fight. The most nutritious food item in the game. Golden apples provide the Absorption buff (grants 4 temporary health), as well as the Regeneration buff (restores another 4 health over 5 seconds). A carved pumpkin provides no additional armor when worn as a helmet, but it allows you to look at endermen without provoking an attack. You can also enchant the armor with Protection IV for an extra layer of defense, and you can enchant boots with Feather Fall IV to reduce falling damage for additional safety. Diamond armor is usually all you will need, but consider using the netherite set for added knockback resistance. Wearing a full set of armor will help you tank some of the damage from the dragon. You can also enchant the sword with Sharpness (for extra damage) and Knockback (to make it easier to fight Endermen). A diamond blade will usually suffice, but the netherite sword does deal slightly more damage. ![]() Diamond or netherite sword is your main way of dealing damage.The Power enchantment greatly increases damage against the dragon, and the Infinity enchantment ensures you never run out of arrows during the fight. You don’t necessarily need every piece of equipment mentioned here to kill the dragon, but stocking up on these items can make the fight substantially easier. To slay the Ender Dragon and live to tell the tale, you need to gear up. How to slay the Ender Dragon in combat.How to locate and enter the fight arena.But each attempt costs you additional consumables such as food and potions, so it’s best to keep retires at a minimum. If you face the Ender Dragon unprepared, you are almost certain to die.įortunately, you can fight the Ender Dragon as many times as you want until you manage to beat it (unless you are doing a hardcore Minecraft speedrun). It’s the toughest single enemy you can face in the game. (17 cm) wide and 5 in.The Ender Dragon is the final boss in Minecraft. LEGO Minecraft The End Arena measures over 5 in. The Minecraft End Arena action toy makes a great birthday gift idea for Minecraft fans and kids aged 8+ years old who love action toys and figures. LEGO Minecraft building toys give players a hands-on way to enjoy their favourite game with LEGO bricks. For added digital fun, the LEGO Builder app features intuitive zoom and rotate tools that let kids visualise their Minecraft construction toys as they build. Additional play possibilities are inspired by 2 popular Minecraft mobs - an enderman figure and a shulker - and familiar accessories from the game, including a golden carrot and a potion. A push of a launcher sends lava blocks shooting from the mouth of the Minecraft Ender Dragon statue that towers over the arena and a movable floor slides apart to reveal a pool of lava beneath the competitors' feet. The combatants are equipped with armour and weapons, but there are other hazards to overcome if they wish to survive. ![]() Minecraft players bring an End warrior and a dragon archer Minecraft figures together for battle in the legendary End Arena. Players will need all their Minecraft skills to survive the action in this fun, hands-on set. Minecraft battles don't come more epic than when they take place in LEGO Minecraft The End Arena (21242) action toy for kids age 8 plus. ![]() Android is currently not supported, and unlike Procreate, there is no streamlined variation for the iPhone. The mobile version, however, only works on the iPad. One important note is that, similar to Affinity Photo, due to the power demanded by Affinity Designer, it’s only available on a select number of iPad models: all iPad Pros, plus the iPad Air 2, and the 5th and 6th generation iPad. Developed by Serif Europe Ltd, Affinity Designer also has a desktop application that runs on both Mac and Windows. ![]() If this kind of app in any way interests you, it looks like a steal at this price. The pre-installed fonts are great but limited. In order to really maximize your design capabilities with Affinity Designer, you will really need to use some installed fonts. And with full support for the Apple Pencil, iOS 11’s drag and drop, and system technologies like Metal, the app looks like the ultimate portable design studio.įor a limited time, Affinity Designer is available at a launch price of $13.99, 30% off the regular price of $19.99. Learn how to add fonts to the Affinity Designer app on iPad with this step by step tutorial. Right now though, let’s look at how you can apply Adjustments in the app. This section includes videos that look at how to Mask Adjustments, Layer Effects, Advanced Layer Effects, Blend Modes, and Styles. Where Affinity Photo focuses on photo editing, Affinity Designer is a vector-based illustration tool. The ‘Effects & Adjustments’ section explores the powerful colour, lighting and blending features of Affinity Designer for iPad. You’ll also find there’s an iPad option, but it isn’t the focus of this particular review. With the addition of the Apple Pencil into the mix, it also gives you the advantages of drawing directly on the screen, plus touch-based interactions such as two-finger tap to undo, pinch to. I personally now use it more than l do the desktop version. ![]() Today, that same philosophy is bringing us Serif’s second major iPad app: Affinity Designer. Affinity Designer para iPad es una aplicación de diseño gráfico profesional con todo lo que necesita para crear increíbles diseños e ilustraciones sobre la marcha. Affinity Designer is thankfully cross-platform, with versions available for the Mac and Windows. The Affinity Designer iPad version has almost complete feature parity with the desktop version. Our 1.9 update is now available across all apps, and as usual, it is free to existing users on the platform (s) a licence has been purchased for. In this article, we run through our top five new features and how you can make the most of them. Unlike what companies such as Adobe do, where a Mac app like Photoshop is broken down into less powerful versions on iOS, Affinity Photo was brought to the iPad with no compromises whatsoever. The 1.9 update to Affinity Designer packs in a raft of time-saving, workflow improvements. Nearly one year ago, Serif released Affinity Photo for the iPad as a full-featured photo editing powerhouse. Furthermore, if the player places twenty echinatas in the Private Reef, a group of ten bigfin reef squid will appear instead of the usual five.īigfin reef squid tend to stay clustered in small groups, swimming slowly. They also appear in the Private Reef in groups of five, if the player places the "echinata" coral on the rocky area. It should be about the same size as its parents in a year." The eggs hatched because of the full moon. In Endless Ocean 2, bigfin reef squid are found in Gatama Atoll (at coordinates F-6 and G-6) in both their young and adult forms, in Deep Hole (at coordinates C-1SE and C-2NE at night only), and in the Cavern of the Gods (at coordinates A-1NW). When the player focuses on a baby bigfin, Jean-Eric comes on over the radio and says: " Can you hear me? This is Jean-Eric.
![]() Next, add three frameworks to the project: Foundation, QuartzCore, and Metal. Then, you need to set C++17 or higher as the C++ language dialect. Here, I put metal-cpp under the current project. After downloading metal-cpp, you should tell Xcode where to find it. Let me show you the steps you will need to take. Here's the webpage where you can find the downloads and instructions. So now that you know a little bit about metal-cpp, how do you actually use it? We published metal-cpp last year. I'm also excited to introduce a series of incremental C++ samples that introduces the Metal API and shows you how to accomplish different tasks with it. We hope this can help you learn how to code with metal-cpp in practice. We now provide a new version of this deferred lighting sample which uses metal-cpp. You may have already played with this deferred lighting sample before. You don't need to worry about language syntax now with metal-cpp, you can directly look into the Metal documentation to learn the concepts and usage of Metal. Obviously, metal-cpp and Objective-C Metal are almost the same. This tells the GPU that it can begin executing my commands. I present the drawable, so the triangle is displayed onscreen. Then I indicate that I've finished encoding render commands. Then I encode my draw call to render a single triangle. I then set a render pipeline state object which contains the vertex and fragment shaders and various other rendering states. The only differences are the name conventions of the languages. The C++ function renderCommandEncoder and the Objective-C method renderCommandEncoder WithDescriptor are the same. I can create a render command encoder and write render commands with a command buffer. I can simply use the raw pointer in C++ as a mapping to ID in Objective-C. First, I create a command buffer, which I will fill with commands for the GPU to execute. I am going to demonstrate how easy it is to use metal-cpp. If you've already used Metal with Objective-C, in terms of function calls, there's very little difference between the Objective-C interface of Metal and metal-cpp. If you are familiar with C++, it's a good time to learn Metal, because you don't need to worry about language syntax. These are the series of calls necessary to draw a triangle with metal-cpp. This one-to-one mapping also allows all of the developer tools to work seamlessly, including GPU Frame Capture and the Xcode debugger. I will discuss this in more detail later. Since metal-cpp implements a one-to-one mapping of C++ to Objective-C calls, it follows the same Cocoa memory-management rules. So this wrapper introduces little overhead. ![]() This is the exact same mechanism that the Objective-C compiler uses to execute Objective-C methods. metal-cpp uses C to call directly into the Objective-C runtime. It's open source under Apache 2 License, so you can modify the library and include it to your applications, easily. To do this, metal-cpp wraps parts of the Foundation and CoreAnimation frameworks. It provides 100 percent coverage of the Metal API by implementing a one-to-one mapping of C++ calls to Objective-C APIs. I say it's lightweight, because it's implemented as a header-only library with inline function calls. metal-cpp is a lightweight Metal C++ wrapper. With metal-cpp in your application, you can use Metal classes and functions in C++, and metal-cpp can help you call Objective-C functions in runtime. Introducing metal-cpp! It serves as a hub between your C++ application and Objective-C Metal. But if your code base is in C++, you may need something to bridge between your code and Metal's Objective-C code. It was originally designed using the powerful features and the conventions offered by Objective-C. Metal is the foundation for accelerated graphics and compute on Apple platforms, enabling your apps and games to tap into the incredible power of the GPU. So here's a look at metal-cpp and how it works. And finally, I'll show you how to integrate C++ code with Objective-C classes. Xcode and metal-cpp have some great utilities that can help you manage the object lifecycles in your apps. C++ and Objective-C handle lifecycles a bit differently, and I'll show you how to handle those differences. First, I'll start with an overview of what metal-cpp is and how it works, and then I'll cover some details about the lifecycles for Objective-C objects. Metal-cpp is a low-overhead library that connects your C++ applications to Metal. We created metal-cpp for anyone who uses C++ and wants to build Metal applications for Apple platforms. Today, it's my pleasure to introduce metal-cpp. ♪ Mellow instrumental hip-hop music ♪ ♪ Hi, my name is Keyi Yu, and I'm an engineer from the Metal Ecosystem team. |