I guess you can get actually controll of your machines mouse if you have apples $100 magic mouse which even then is missing buttons i would need for blender. Instead of giving you access to your machines actual mouse you control your machines mouse with a cursor on the iPad controlled by a mouse ( sorry if thats confusing but those who have tried it know what im talking about). I've tried chrome and Microsoft apps, both seem like they could work great but the problem is apples poor excuse for mouse support. If you're actually interested this I would highly recommend actually joining the relevant mailing lists and forums for Blender development so you can get all of this work upstreamed.I want to know if anyone has figured out a good way to use the ipad with a mouse and keyboard to model in blender remotely. It should be fine, but as we learned with things like iSH, App Review can sometimes be stupidly fickle about user-controlled extension points. I have no idea what App Review will think of Blender's Python-based plugin system. I don't know how much of a pain it would be to redirect Blender file I/O into the Files app I would imagine it's more involved than just asking it for a file and then opening it like a normal thing on the filesystem. On the other hand, Blender also already has really nice trackpad gesture support on macOS that you could probably reuse. Blender's internal UI toolkit will also need to be redesigned for larger tap targets, swipe-to-scroll, etc. The primary input method of iPadOS is still touch, so you'll have to find touch-friendly ways to handle things like adjusting and dividing subwindows. You'd have to pull off a lot of porting or shimming work to get Blender to work with the more-modern Metal APIs that Apple actually supports now.

Cycles X actually dropped OpenCL altogether, so you can only run it on Nvidia GPUs right now. AFAIK, the UI is OpenGL based, Cycles renderer only supports OpenCL or CUDA, and so on. Off the top of my head:īlender relies on a lot of technologies Apple has either deprecated or never supported.

It's not impossible but you will need to jump over a few hurdles. If you felt so inclined you could port it over yourself but you'll also need macOS to actually build iPad software. The M1 isn't necessary to run Blender earlier iPads could have also run a hypothetical port. Possibly, you'd have to talk with the Blender developers to figure that one out.

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