Eve Online spaceship viewer uses WebGL

#1

Post by lloeki » Sat, May 26, 2012, 5:46 PM UTC

Eve Online spaceship viewer uses WebGL
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Re: Eve Online spaceship viewer uses WebGL

#2

Post by archivator » Sat, May 26, 2012, 7:10 PM UTC

Something must be wrong with their feature detection 'cause all I see in Chrome and Firefox are some well-rendered sky and engine lights. Linux, Chrome 19, Firefox 12, nouveau drivers.

Re: Eve Online spaceship viewer uses WebGL

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Post by RegEx » Sat, May 26, 2012, 7:11 PM UTC

archivator wrote: post #2

Something must be wrong with their feature detection 'cause all I see in Chrome and Firefox are some well-rendered sky and engine lights. Linux, Chrome 19, Firefox 12, nouveau drivers.

Same here on Linux.

Re: Eve Online spaceship viewer uses WebGL

#4

Post by leeoniya » Sat, May 26, 2012, 7:12 PM UTC

ff nightly working ok here - looks great.

Re: Eve Online spaceship viewer uses WebGL

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Post by donum » Sat, May 26, 2012, 7:15 PM UTC

Works fine for me. (Windows 7 64bit, Chrome 19.0.1084.52 m)

I really like the Idea of using WebGL to show how parts of the game actually look like. It's also very smooth, only the 'Battleship' (Amarr) is a bit choppy for me.

Re: Eve Online spaceship viewer uses WebGL

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Post by AlexFromBelgium » Sat, May 26, 2012, 7:16 PM UTC

Works perfectly on a macbook (Chrome 19). I've not gotten WebGL to work on Linux with nouveau drivers though..

Re: Eve Online spaceship viewer uses WebGL

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Post by tom9729 » Sat, May 26, 2012, 7:23 PM UTC

Bit slow on my D620 (Chrome 18, Windows 7, NVS110M) but looks great.

Re: Eve Online spaceship viewer uses WebGL

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Post by druiid » Sat, May 26, 2012, 7:27 PM UTC

I have to say that this is quite impressive. Not only do the models appear very smooth (and fast), but the textures look great and with lighting, etc.

There is one question I have had that this reminds me of, and that is if there are any really impressive WebGL demos out there. I looked a while back and was not able to run across anything significant. Right now to me it seems like WebGL is technically proficient but distributed less widely than even VRML was.

Re: Eve Online spaceship viewer uses WebGL

#9

Post by huhtenberg » Sat, May 26, 2012, 7:30 PM UTC

Any opinions on Eve as a game? Been considering it as a primary time sink for a while now.

Re: Eve Online spaceship viewer uses WebGL

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Post by larrik » Sat, May 26, 2012, 7:34 PM UTC

huhtenberg wrote: post #9

Any opinions on Eve as a game? Been considering it as a primary time sink for a while now.

I've played it. It's awesome if you have the time for it. It's not the type of game you can hop on and play for just 30-60 minutes, though.