HTML5 WebGL Quake II

[matthew]

News story here about developers who have ported Quake II to run in Web browsers using HTML5 & WebGL.

There is a Website here on Google where the Source can be downloaded.

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[Petr Schreiber]

WebGL is very interesting standard,

when do you think it will become common in browsers, Matthew?


Petr

[matthew]

Probably when more games like Quake II get released.

[D.J.Peters]

i tested WebGL in the past and it won't work with all OpenGL cards and the software emulation are to slow.

this is why i Develop http://Shiny3D.de

it's for IE, FireFox, Chrome, SeaMonkey Windows, Linux and Mac

Joshy

[matthew]

I downloaded a nightly-build of Firefox from here & tried the WebGL examples on this page.

They all worked, admittedly a little slowly because my graphics card doesn't support OpenGL 2.1 so I had to use the MESA software rendering library.

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi Matthew,

I downloaded the linked nightly-build, enabled the WebGL support ... but still can't run any of the demos.
MESA could be the way, but I will wait till it works in hardware. I have OpenGL 3.3 capable card, so it should work nicely.

I will try other browsers during weekend.


Petr

P.S. Joshy, it looks interesting, but I like on WebGL it will (one day) work in browsers without need to download any kind of plugin. There is lot of plugins for 3D, I tried the O3D from Google, and tens of other engines. But the problem for me is that I have to install something to make it work. But 5points plus to you for making your plugin less HW hungry, I agree WebGL including requirement for shader support is very bold step.

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