Viewer Draw fails to render correctly when using the Metal backed in macOS

[corbinstreehouse]

Problem statement

Steps to reproduce

1. Open attached file on macOS (12.5 Monterey) in Blender 3.6, using the default Metal backend instead of OpenGL

Sverchok Erindale tut.blend.zip

Actual result:

Viewer nodes generate with some transparency, and you get a warning about using OpenGL:

Expected result, when using the OpenGL backend:

Expected result

What did you expect to see as a result of those steps?

Actual result

What did you actually get?

Sverchok version

1.2.0

[satabol]

Sverchok is not compatible with Metal for a while. Can you select and use openGL backend?

[corbinstreehouse]

Yes - I am doing that. I haven’t seen any open bug reports about it not working with Metal. Can we use this one to track it? I did search for them before logging a bug.

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[corbinstreehouse]

Looks like Blender 4.0+ doesn't allow one to use the OpenGL back end anymore.

[satabol]

PR #4983 for Blender 4.x is in process.