Discussion Apple's game porting toolkit's compatibility with unity ?

does anyone know how the game porting toolkit from apple works with Unity ?

 

It might work, but why would you? Unity can already export to MacOS natively. That will have a ton more performance

 

You would simply run the Windows EXE through the porting kit from what I understand. It does not "work with game engine X", it works with existing builds.

Using the porting kit is pretty pointless for engines that already support building for MacOS "natively" though.

 

Apple's "game porting toolkit" is just CrossOver's fork of Wine. It doesn't port your game but instead works in much the same way as Valve's Proton providing a "compatibility layer" that translates Win32 and DirectX API calls into the Apple equivalents.

It's not intended to be used to play games but to verify that they will work on Apple hardware before the developer does the actual work to port it. For Unity you just opening the build menu and switching the build target to macOS.

 

The Metal shader converter (which is supposed to be excellent) is the distinguishing feature of Apple's toolkit, but the license limits its use to evaluating a game for porting purposes.

As has been pointed out, though, its utility is moot for Unity, which can build native Metal / Apple Silicon applications already.

 

Well it is easy to build for Mac... but try getting certified and then signing and notarizing your app so you can give to anyone without the OS complaining
Not that windows doesn't complain, but it is easily told to ignore any issue. Less so with Mac unless it changed.
I would like a "take this windows app and make it run on any mac without complaint" button!

 

Is this an AI-generated response? lol

 

It absolutely is. "Metal for Unity" isn't even a product that exists.