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WebGL is a Javascript API for rendering interactive 3D / 2D graphics on the HTML5 canvas element. It is based on OpenGL ES 2.0.

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Do you think it is technically possible to write a fully-fledged 3D MMO client with Browser JavaScript - WebGL for graphics, and WebSocket for Networking? Do you think future MMOs (and games generally)...
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On Twitter, I found this screenshot of a game in development: The image on top seems to be without any color limitation. But the two other pictures at the bottom have a 256 color palette. I want to ...
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In a WebGL 2 GLSL fragment shader, one can not access the pre-existing color value of the current pixel, i.e. the color that is already there in the framebuffer before the pixel that is currently ...
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I'm working on setting up an active outline in my 3d engine, a highlight effect for selected 3d characters or scenery in the screen. After working with the stencil buffer and getting some ...
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I am new to Unity. I have a problem where my game has good performance on my non-4k screen. Bur when I play it on my 4k screen, the performance gets really bad. It looks like the resolution is ...
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I am currently creating a 3D first-person shooter game in the browser using WebGL. How would I implement mouselook/free look for such a game?
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I have a generated terrain, with hexagonal geometry, as per screenshot below: I then generate biomes, but as you can see the borders between them are really ugly and straight. To hide that hexagonal ...
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I want to compose conventional triangle-based models and particles with a ray-traced scene at a reasonable frame-rate. webGL does not let you write the gl_FragDepth...
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I implemented the Lafortune shader in WebGL, and my biggest concern is about this formula: Explanation Kd/Ks is the material diffuse/specular color, ρd/ρs is the light diffuse/specular component, ...
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I have a webgl based 2.5D platformer game, and I would like to add a simple blob shadow under the character to help the player with the platforming. How is this normally done? As you can see below, ...
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I'm thinking about using CAAT as a part of a HTML5 game engine. One of it's features is the ability to render to Canvas and WebGL without changing anything in the client code. That is a good thing, ...
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I created a human model in Blender, exported the vertices and indices into a JSON file and render the model in a browser using WebGL. Now I created a walk and jump animation in Blender and would like ...
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I have read that on desktop OpenGL + SDL is a great way to learn. In looking at WebGL I couldn't find a Web version of SDL. On their site I see bindings for all sorts of languages, but no JavaScript. ...
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I want to draw some very-semi-transparent objects on top of my scene and have them blend nicely with the other pixels in the scene, but not blend with the background; if I draw a semi-transparent ...
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I have written some simple apps following the tutorials on http://learningwebgl.com. What is the simplest way to load and display Collada model files, particularly the files available from Google 3D ...
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While coding my WebGL app I've encountered an interesting phenomena: On my first PC (with GPU Radeon HD 5850), BrowserLeaks (link) tells me that in my browser - Google Chrome Version 36.0.1985.143m ...
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I have a WebGL deferred rendering pipeline, where I'm rendering shadow map with VSM technique. The goal is that the scene, or model, is hovering in space, and in addition to casting shadow on itself, ...
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I used game engines that are capable of cross-platform export: Cocos Creator, Godot, Unity, others. Some game engines have this thing, called "physics update" or "fixed update". ...
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I'm looking for a technique to render an object with multiple texture sources. One texture is static, the other is generated dynamically (it's a render target). For example, say I was rendering a TV. ...
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I've got a question about quaternions in my WebGL application. How can I rotate an object only around two axes? For example, how can I exclude/nullify rotation about the Y axis? The problem is that ...
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I'm using the Three.js JavaScript library to do some things in WebGL, and I wonder how the graphic aspects of timers are done on mobile. I was creating numbers with geometries and just replacing them ...
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The question is self explanatory, when I run my demo-html project as a Web Application and I open Chrome with the provided link by eclipse, my browser doesn't show the image it is supposed to show in ...
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I'm making a small voxel-based multiplayer WebGL game with a Node.JS server which handles player positions and sends terrain chunk data to the clients. This is an example of how I'm currently sending ...
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I am interested in making a simple 3D game this summer, and I'd prefer if it were playable in a browser. My choices I am considering are Unity and WebGL. Currently I have no experience in either. But ...
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EDIT This is the WebGL code for initializing the tetrahedron points. You may want to skip to the second code block, because you may be able to answer without this. ...
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