Takuma Miyamoto

Also +1 on this.

Migration to Vulkan in other softwares (such as TouchDesigner) is turning out really great on macOS.
Of course, native Metal support would be ideal, but I believe Houdini can achieve something similar.

Currently, the viewport in macOS lacks many of its functionalities or has very poor quality.
(like blooms, ambient occlusion, casting shadows)

I somehow believed that the 20.5 Vulkan update aims to address these issues and bring parity with the PC...
I'm genuinely looking forward to future support on this.

johnmather
Vulkan is unfortunately not supported on Apple silicon at this time due to macOS lacking native Vulkan support. We hope to change this in a future version.

Oh no... But thank you for making it clear.
Really hoping to see this in future!

I found Vulkan not selected by default, even not selectable in preferences.
Is it because of my Mac environment?(M2 Ultra)
I couldn't find anything written about this limitation.

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TBH, I was really looking forward about Vulkan update in 20.5, since there was significant difference in viewport between PC and Mac.
(such as enabling bloom FX, quality of shadows and ambient occlusion, etc...)