Comments on: Transcript: Brandon Jones’ WebGL talk at onGameStart

By: On game start « nestor alvaro

On game start « nestor alvaro — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:43:33 +0000

[...] came Brandon Jones. Who, believe it or not, showed a Quake 3 level renderer on the browser working seamlessly. Really good stuff. The only problem that he pointed is the [...]

By: onGameStart – day 2 : Smashinglabs

onGameStart – day 2 : Smashinglabs — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:17:27 +0000

[...] @tinysubversions is a fast typer and he wrote a transcript of the presentation. [...]

By: Won

Won — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:07:50 +0000

Agreed, Brandon’s demos are really sweet! Makes me wish WebGL had anisotropic filtering :)

Note that the WebGL loader stuff doesn’t use the ArrayBufferstuff at all; it is similar to the thing we used to make Google Body (http://goo.gl/body), which is like 1.5M triangles/model.

The ArrayBuffer stuff was implemented after Body. In an interesting coincidence, the folks who worked on GWTQuake really wanted it.

By: Darius Kazemi

Darius Kazemi — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:06:23 +0000

Glad you liked it, Z. Brandon was super impressed with your Fieldrunners work :)

By: Darius Kazemi

Darius Kazemi — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:02:25 +0000

Awesome, thanks!

By: Michael "Z" Goddard

Michael "Z" Goddard — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:30:37 +0000

These demos are so awesome. Hearing about and seeing this stuff makes me so excited to be working with these new technologies. I have seen code for using xhr’s arraybuffer response type for working with stuff like Chrome’s FileSystem api but I did not think about using it as a direct method to load content into WebGL.

I also stumbled upon a video of Brandon’s Rage demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0S2dsuSxHw

By: Won

Won — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:32:15 +0000

The million-triangle demo he mentioned is here:

http://webgl-loader.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/happy/happy.html

Part of:

http://code.google.com/p/webgl-loader/

Love the shoutout!

By: Lucas Rizoli

Lucas Rizoli — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:47:57 +0000

Thanks for putting this up.

“The real bottleneck is going to be getting the content to the player.” I wonder what major architectural changes this will mean when moving from, say, streaming and decompressing stuff off a disc and doing so over the web. I would suspect that when developing for systems without much memory (eg. no-HDD Xbox 360s) this is already a big challenge, neh?

By: Dariusz Siedlecki

Dariusz Siedlecki — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:40:32 +0000

I have to agree, the whole presentation was very interesting, and when we saw the demo of TF2, my mind was literally blown. As long as a good JS developer gets to develop something in WebGL, we can do literally everything what’s possible now on normal PCs.

Btw, nice name! ;)