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Re: Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 02, 2013, 8:40 PM UTC

jf wrote: post #18

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What version of Firefox did you use?

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Re: Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo

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Post by daemonfire300 » Thu, May 02, 2013, 8:41 PM UTC

The question I always ask when I see this is: Why? Why do you put serious effort into a technology which is perfomance wise years behind. Why do we take steps back, just because "it's in the browser" => "now it's cool".

Re: Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo

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Post by sprayk » Thu, May 02, 2013, 8:41 PM UTC

Looks cool, but crashed X w/ opensource radeon drivers.

Re: Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Thu, May 02, 2013, 8:42 PM UTC

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>One concern for this type of product is that there's no concept of "installing" a webapp. The website will need to stream all game resources to the client for each user. I would wager that's one reason the graphics are poor: all of what you see was probably generated from Need to stream it to the user once.

And running a site on a given domain isn't hard.

Re: Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 02, 2013, 8:44 PM UTC

dguaraglia wrote: post #17

[deleted] wrote: post #7

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As someone who grew up in a time where you had to tweak your config.sys and autoexec.bat files so that you could get a few extra FPS on Duke Nukem 3D, I can tell you: this is pretty freaking amazing.

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Re: Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo

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Post by rikacomet » Thu, May 02, 2013, 8:44 PM UTC

Not working on chrome? UNREAL!

Re: Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo

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Post by azakai » Thu, May 02, 2013, 8:44 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #21

jf wrote: post #18

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What version of Firefox did you use?

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As the demo says, it's recommended to try it in Firefox Nightly. The demo starts up and runs much faster there thanks to optimizations that are not yet in the stable release (which is what you're running, I think).

Re: Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo

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Post by daemonfire300 » Thu, May 02, 2013, 8:46 PM UTC

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #24

[deleted] wrote: post #7

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>One concern for this type of product is that there's no concept of "installing" a webapp. The website will need to stream all game resources to the client for each user. I would wager that's one reason the graphics are poor: all of what you see was probably generated from Need to stream it to the user once . And running a site on a given domain isn't hard.

Yeah, once? Tell me about localStorage supporting x GB per Domain and I will take your argument seriously.

Re: Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo

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Post by dreen » Thu, May 02, 2013, 8:46 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #19

dreen wrote: post #13

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i didnt downvote you but ive got a 7970 and its maxing out the 60fps limit, the graphics look pretty nice too.

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not that i claim this is the solution to your problem but they do talk about how to cap the fps in the faq

Re: Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo

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Post by azakai » Thu, May 02, 2013, 8:47 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #19

dreen wrote: post #13

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i didnt downvote you but ive got a 7970 and its maxing out the 60fps limit, the graphics look pretty nice too.

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I get a very stable 60fps on Firefox Nightly, using Intel graphics on Linux (typically a slow combination).

The main difference are the optimizations currently on Firefox Nightly. They'll be in a stable release in just a few months or less.