Chapters

Chapters

Metal by Tutorials

Fourth Edition · macOS 14, iOS 17 · Swift 5.9 · Xcode 15

Before You Begin

Section 0: 6 chapters

Section I: Beginning Metal

Section 1: 10 chapters

1. Hello, Metal!

2. 3D Models

3. The Rendering Pipeline

4. The Vertex Function

5. 3D Transformations

6. Coordinate Spaces

7. The Fragment Function

8. Textures

9. Navigating a 3D Scene

10. Lighting Fundamentals

Section II: Intermediate Metal

Section 2: 8 chapters

11. Maps & Materials

12. Render Passes

13. Shadows

14. Deferred Rendering

15. Tile-Based Deferred Rendering

16. GPU Compute Programming

17. Particle Systems

18. Particle Behavior

Section III: Advanced Metal

Section 3: 8 chapters

19. Tessellation & Terrains

20. Fragment Post-Processing

21. Image-Based Lighting

22. Reflection & Refraction

23. Animation

24. Character Animation

25. Managing Resources

26. GPU-Driven Rendering

Section IV: Ray Tracing

Section 4: 7 chapters

27. Rendering With Rays

28. Advanced Shadows

29. Advanced Lighting

30. Metal Performance Shaders

31. Performance Optimization

32. Best Practices

33. Conclusion

ii. Book Source Code & Forums
Written by Marius Horga & Caroline Begbie

Where to download the materials for this book

The materials for this book can be cloned or downloaded from the GitHub book materials repository:

https://github.com/kodecocodes/met-materials/tree/editions/4.0

Forums

We’ve also set up an official forum for the book at https://forums.kodeco.com/c/books/metal-by-tutorials. This is a great place to ask questions about the book or to submit any errors you may find.

Have a technical question? Want to report a bug? You can ask questions and report bugs to the book authors in our official book forum here.

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