Metal 2 support

[rajkr09]

Does the Filament support Metal 2 API (the recent api), if not, do you have plans to support it in future.. I'm stuck between choosing either "The Forge" or "Filament" because of this feature.

[romainguy]

@bejado

[bejado]

We support iOS 11.0 and above so we're somewhat limited in the Metal APIs we can use, but yes, we do use some Metal 2 features and I have plans to add support for more (like argument buffers).

[rajkr09]

I was thinking of GPU based Metal Acceleration and Intersection structures introduced in Metal 2. I don't know how much it will be of performance boost but
thank you for the information.