returns the metal specific fence object

returns the Metal render pass descriptor

returns the MTLResourceOptions of this buffer

returns the amount of mip-map levels used by this image NOTE: #mip-levels from image dim to 1px

NOTE: not supported

returns the normalized (in [0, 1]) point coordinate

returns the normalized (in [0, 1]) point coordinate

NOTE: not supported

returns the position within a patch inside a tessellation evaluation shader

TODO: implement this returns the position within a patch inside a tessellation evaluation shader

NOTE: not supported

NOTE: not supported

returns the type of this queue

returns the used screen image format

returns the internal shared Metal buffer if there is one, returns nullptr otherwise

returns the internal shared Metal image if there is one, returns nullptr otherwise

returns the internal shared Vulkan buffer if there is one, returns nullptr otherwise

returns the internal shared Vulkan image if there is one, returns nullptr otherwise

returns the total amount of bytes needed to store a slice of within this image (or of the complete image w/o mip levels if it isn't an array or cube i

returns the storage dimensionality of this image

returns the allocated swapchain image count TODO: remove this

if has_swapchain() is true, this returns info about the swapchain

! reads a single uint32_t from the current file input stream and returns it */

! reads a single uint64_t from the current file input stream and returns it */

! reads a single uint16_t from the current file input stream and returns it */

NOTE: not supported

///////////////////////////////////// any shader returns the view index inside a shader TODO: implement this

NOTE: not supported