Deferred Lighting cannot be enabled on macOS

[ggenesiss]

Trying to enable Deferred Rendering on a preview version of Minecraft won't work even when using a pbr enabled pack

(Note: World has "Render Dragon Features for Creators" enabled under the Experiments section)

Changing backends doesn't help either

To recreate:

• Download a PBR enabled pack into the game (Prizma Deferred was used in example)
• Enable the downloaded pack (Should already give a warning saying "resourcePack.incompatible.graphics.pbr")
• Make a new world
• Under Experiments: Enable "Render Dragon Features for Creators"
• Go into world and attempt to enable "Deferred Technical Preview" under the Video options

OS: macOS Version: v0.14.2-macOS-x86_64-0.2.469 (build 469) Installation Type: dmg

[ChristopherHX]

I couldn't figure out to get a OpenGL ES 3.1 => Metal compatibility layer working on macOS and the Game.

There a two problems, always one side doesn't support something the other side needs,

• Apple doesn't support Desktop OpenGL 4 with compute shader, compatibility layer google/angle for this would exist
• Apple Metal does support compute shader, google/angle doesn't implement OpenGL ES 3.1 using the Metal Backend

It seems like the interest from Google for this to happen isn't big, since WebGPU no longer needs such a complex compatibility layer

It was hard enough to get even the game show in your window