Unreal Engine 5 can now run in a web browser

https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Unreal-Engine-Software-239301/News/5-Entwickler-zeigt-Spiel-im-Browser-dank-WebGPU-1440861/

by astlouis44 • 2 years ago

65 9 2 years ago

pcgameshardware.de

chrisjj• 2 years ago

Unreal Engine 5 can now run in a web browser

Title needs correction to: Unreal Engine 5: Entwickler zeigt Spiel im Browser - dank WebGPU

tonoto• 2 years ago

Cookiewall, Paywall and German. Needs a better link

gareth_untether• 2 years ago

Docs:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/SharingAndReleasing...

https://github.com/UnrealEngineHTML5/Documentation

jsheard2• 2 years ago

That's the old UE4 web target, which Epic deprecated way back in 2019. OP is about a new UE5 web target developed by a third party rather than Epic themselves.

dkarras• 2 years ago

the docs regarding HTML export is very old as that feature is unsupported by Unreal Engine since UE4 days. They abandoned web export basically, because the features they needed did not exist on the web platform back then. The post is about a 3rd party attempt to bring those experiences to web through the use of WebGPU - Unreal Engine 5 by itself does not support it (yet, if ever).

jsheard2• 2 years ago

I could see Epic maybe giving it another go, but the features would be limited. When people hear UE5 they think of the new flagship features like Lumen and Nanite, but those are built around API and hardware features a few generations ahead of what WebGPU currently offers. Nanites software rasterizer, for example, really needs 64bit atomics to be at all viable.

cookrn• 2 years ago

I came to post that this was a dupe but realized it’s the same person who posted the other popular X thread from the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39385739

behindsight• 2 years ago

Yes, I am wondering if this post contains any new information not previously discussed.

Also it is not the first time they have posted a similar related post to it [0]

Their previous justification for the dupe was:

It has more context and information, that would be beneficial to HN users.

Which I believe could have been added as supplementary comments in their first popular thread instead of posting 3 different threads on the same general topic.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39402057

crazygringo• 2 years ago

Dupe, previously discussed 2 days ago (148 points, 50 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39385739

Unreal Engine 5 can now run in a web browser

Related Stories