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That's a fun game. I made an anagram game myself a few years ago.
Seeing some of the other comments reminded me that most of the work went into trimming the word lists so that it wasn't rude or randomly impossibly difficult.
Support for Javascript modules looks like it is in-progress: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/issues/4767
Developing offline with the engine-only (https://github.com/playcanvas/engine) is obviously an option, but I wouldn't hold your breath for an offline editor.
They unlock a lot of advanced graphics techniques that are too slow to do CPU-side but work well in parallel on GPU. It's a pretty wide variety of things, but e.g. lighting, mesh manipulation, terrain, voxels, post-processing.
I can't wait for compute shaders to be widely available on the web!
PlayCanvas[0] is the probably the closest "web-first" solution compared to Unity. Used by lots of Snap Games & Instant Games. It's written in JS which means that it's way smaller ~350kB for an empty scene if I recall.
It's worth checking out PlayCanvas for the asset pipeline. Texture compression is supported directly in the editor. https://blog.playcanvas.com/webgl-texture-compression-made-e...
Clara.io is a modelling, animation and rendering tool (in the style of Maya/Max/Blender)
PlayCanvas is a game engine (in the style of Unity/Unreal)
To put it another way. You build your 3D assets in Clara and import them into PlayCanvas to add interactivity.
And a handy link for anyone who wants to check out PlayCanvas: https://playcanvas.com
"but there's no real "game engine" for them along the same lines as Unity/Unreal"
Define large? You need a graphics driver more recent than Jan 1, 2009.
And slow compared to what? Flash? Canvas 2D?
Please don't associate WebGL being bad with Unity being bad at exporting to WebGL...
PlayCanvas is generating WebGL games that run on mobile and download in only a few megabytes. You can generate great WebGL games today.
And if you want to use a WebGL engine with gamma correct rendering... https://playcanvas.com ;-)
http://developer.playcanvas.com/en/user-manual/designer/sett...
Especially if you want to support mobile: http://blog.playcanvas.com/playcanvas-versus-unity-webgl/
PlayCanvas are doing this. Live development for WebGL across all devices simultaneously. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PS4oMLPyYfI
It's trivial to generate "some" UVs. However, in this case there is a texture with a lighting pattern as part of the generator. Ideally the model would be unwrapped so that the correct areas of the texture correspond to the correct area of the model.
In the case of an artist working from scratch the skill is generating UVs that allow the artist to easily paint the texture and provide an even area for each part of the model. Otherwise some areas will be stretched and blurry.
They are still very much required for games/real-time rendering :-)
I hadn't heard ptex before, it's interesting stuff. Sounds like the reason it isn't in general usage for realtime stuff is the memory overhead: http://sebastiansylvan.com/post/casting-a-critical-eye-on-gp...
Oops, also just realized there were some 4096 textures in there. I've resized them down.
Nope, that's right. There is no UV co-ordinates generated in the blender script. (Well, I think it uses world space cube for UVs, which is an option that PlayCanvas doesn't support).
I used the automatic Cube Projection unwrap in blender before exporting to FBX and importing into PlayCanvas.
Interesting, could be the particle effects. They fall back to CPU if your machine doesn't support float textures.
Unfortunately, the ship generation is done offline in Blender. I'd have to re-write his ship generator in javascript.
Sadly it doesn't seem to generate UVs for the models. But using the cube projection in Blender seems to do an OK job.
Add a skybox and a couple of simple particle effects in PlayCanvas.
And we have some WebGL spaceships :-)
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For Swerve http://swerve.playcanvas.com/ we designed the UI to be responsive for desktop and mobile. We're using HTML/CSS for this so it works well, but unfortunately you end up getting some stalls for browser layout and compositing.
For Swerve this is a problem because we're aiming for smooth 60fps but in a less twitch-based game this wouldn't be so much of an issue.
Funnily enough the results of our AI for The Getaway on PS2 led to a very similar result. We had to tone it all down to make it look like actual London traffic. :-)
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I've heard of it (in the UK) because of their heavy advertising on Spotify.
I played this for half an hour earlier today. Great fun and superbly executed.
Just tried again on my tablet and unfortunately I just got the spinning loading bar. Not sure if it's just a bandwidth thing?
You might want to take a look at playcanvas [https://playcanvas.com] if you are looking for something a little more game specific than threejs. We've designed it specifically for WebGL and hence it works a lot better than Unity or Unreal.
Presumably, this means Ubuntu will always be one release behind...