Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by scotty79 » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 3:27 PM UTC

arethuza wrote: post #7

Works fine, and is rather impressive, on Windows 10 - both in FF and Chrome. Doesn't work on iPad - just get blank pages.

Doesn't work on Windows 10 for me, neither FF nor Chrome.

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by Theodores » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 3:45 PM UTC

exDM69 wrote: post #2

I see all white pages with no text on them. "Show grid" shows yellow and green rectangles. Linux, Firefox 43, Nvidia proprietary drivers.

Same here, Ubuntu + built in Intel display.

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by wjd » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 4:05 PM UTC

wjd wrote: post #9

exDM69 wrote: post #2

I see all white pages with no text on them. "Show grid" shows yellow and green rectangles. Linux, Firefox 43, Nvidia proprietary drivers.

Loaded up linux and I got the same issue. Working on it!

Should be fixed now!

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by IvanK_net » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 4:16 PM UTC

This discussion reminds me times 4 years ago, when I showed my WebGL games to my firends and instead of getting an interesting feedback, 90% of comments were about my games not working on their devices. Sad to see the same thing in 2016 :(

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by muglug » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 4:20 PM UTC

arethuza wrote: post #7

Works fine, and is rather impressive, on Windows 10 - both in FF and Chrome. Doesn't work on iPad - just get blank pages.

Strange - works for me on an iPad Pro with latest iOS.

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by timon999 » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 4:21 PM UTC

I'm getting some weird artifacts: http://i.imgur.com/U3sSkW3.png

Ubuntu Gnome, AMD open source driver

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by marcosscriven » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 4:24 PM UTC

arethuza wrote: post #7

Works fine, and is rather impressive, on Windows 10 - both in FF and Chrome. Doesn't work on iPad - just get blank pages.

Worked for me on iPad mini 2, albeit very slowly.

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by fla » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 5:08 PM UTC

wjd wrote: post #10

fla wrote: post #8

I'm curious about the choice of bmp for http://wdobbie.com/warandpeace/glyphs.bmp Why not a png ? Edit: So after a quick test: * glyphs.bmp 53.5 MB * glyphs.png 7.6 MB I guess it could be shrinked even more.

The .bmp file is served gzipped to 7 MB. LZMA and Bzip2 both get it down to about 3 MB but I'd need to use a javascript decompressor.

Makes sense. My bad, I tested with wget and compression was disabled.

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by seangrant » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 5:19 PM UTC

IvanK_net wrote: post #14

This discussion reminds me times 4 years ago, when I showed my WebGL games to my firends and instead of getting an interesting feedback, 90% of comments were about my games not working on their devices. Sad to see the same thing in 2016 :(

New technology is always full of naysayers and people pointing out the obvious defects. Real innovation comes from recognizing and realizing the potential of it.

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by fizixer » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 5:56 PM UTC

Not really sure this is an unsolved problem in other contexts. For example, any good image viewer would have no-shimmering at all scales.

You simply render your text as images and then apply the method already used by the image viewers.