Cycles Apple Metal - integrate as a render in an iOS Swift App

[AlexL-2]

Hello community,

The Cycles Standalone docs mention that:

Cycles is integrated into Blender, but can also be built as a standalone renderer. This can be used for testing purposes, but also allows an integration into other 3D programs and pipelines.
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Render/Cycles/Standalone

I am interested to integrate Cycles Metal into an iOS app built on top of SceneKit, and also contribute to the Cycles Metal repo. I come from iOS world, and I am new to blender, so if anyone can clarify some questions I hugely appreciate!

• Has anyone integrated Cycles into iOS before, that I could share the experience on how to do it?
• Can cycles metal render USD and .SCN files?
• Where is the Metal repo? I only found the CUDA version
  GitHub - blender/cycles: The Cycles Render Engine - official mirror

Thanks!

[LazyDodo]

@AlexL-2

• Has anyone integrated Cycles into iOS before, that I could share the experience on how to do it?

not that i’m aware of.

@AlexL-2

• Can cycles metal render USD and .SCN files?

standalone is essentially just the render engine, it comes with a limited sample showing how to get something rendering with some scenes defined in an xml format, but that’s it.

• Where is the Metal repo? I only found the CUDA version
  https://github.com/blender/cycles

CPU/Cuda/HIP/Metal all live in the same repo, you’re in the right place.

[mrtksn]

Hi, did you make any progress on this?