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Has anyone spotted discussion of WebGL render targets? UE4 could target WebGL but for UE5 I'm just finding a few hobby/fanboy forum posts not anything official

by yodon 5y ago

Has anyone spotted discussion of WebGL render targets? UE4 could target WebGL but for UE5 I'm just finding a few hobby/fanboy forum posts not anything official from Unreal.

imachine1980_ 5y ago
Conjecture 1) unreal is overkill for web and I feel ue5 is more, you can make a 500mb web game, but I don't play it 2) web makes no money, except in China, but point 1 still applies
lfowles 5y ago
The HTML5 target has been deprecated for several versions now.
programmarchy 5y ago
As mentioned, official support was dropped and the community supported extension hasn't been updated in ~2 years. If you need to target WebGL, then Unity is a better bet.
- throwaway675309 5y ago
  Unities web GL export has been in an experimental state for years now.
- pjmlp 5y ago
  Even Unity isn't much better, the only good ones are the engines designed for Web specially like PlayCanvas and BabylonJS.
pjmlp 5y ago
You are better off with PlayCanvas and BabylonJS. WebGL 2.0 is stuck in 2011 hardware, something like Unreal is overkill. No wonder they decided to use pixel streaming with server side rendering instead.
astlouis44 5y ago
Our venture backed startup is actively working on integrating web support back into Unreal Engine, as we see a huge opportunity for a easy cross-platform export target for developers. We're working on a WebGPU backend right now for both UE4 and UE5, and have already upgraded UE4 to support WebGL 2.0 from 4.24-4.27, as support for HTML5 was removed back in the 4.23 release. Another major innovation is we've imported a more improved compression format (Basis) as part of our pipeline, we've also created an asynchronous set fetching that only grabs the required data that a user needs to see at any given moment, streaming the rest of the assets in the background as necessary. This dramatically reduces load times, which was one of the biggest complaints with Unreal on the web previously. Website for more info - https://theimmersiveweb.com/ https://theimmersiveweb.com/ Our Discord: https://discord.gg/cFJV6Yu https://discord.gg/cFJV6Yu

by yodon 5y ago

Has anyone spotted discussion of WebGL render targets? UE4 could target WebGL but for UE5 I'm just finding a few hobby/fanboy forum posts not anything official from Unreal.

imachine1980_ 5y ago

Conjecture 1) unreal is overkill for web and I feel ue5 is more, you can make a 500mb web game, but I don't play it 2) web makes no money, except in China, but point 1 still applies

lfowles 5y ago

The HTML5 target has been deprecated for several versions now.

programmarchy 5y ago

As mentioned, official support was dropped and the community supported extension hasn't been updated in ~2 years. If you need to target WebGL, then Unity is a better bet.

throwaway675309 5y ago
Unities web GL export has been in an experimental state for years now.
pjmlp 5y ago
Even Unity isn't much better, the only good ones are the engines designed for Web specially like PlayCanvas and BabylonJS.

pjmlp 5y ago

You are better off with PlayCanvas and BabylonJS. WebGL 2.0 is stuck in 2011 hardware, something like Unreal is overkill. No wonder they decided to use pixel streaming with server side rendering instead.

astlouis44 5y ago

Our venture backed startup is actively working on integrating web support back into Unreal Engine, as we see a huge opportunity for a easy cross-platform export target for developers. We're working on a WebGPU backend right now for both UE4 and UE5, and have already upgraded UE4 to support WebGL 2.0 from 4.24-4.27, as support for HTML5 was removed back in the 4.23 release. Another major innovation is we've imported a more improved compression format (Basis) as part of our pipeline, we've also created an asynchronous set fetching that only grabs the required data that a user needs to see at any given moment, streaming the rest of the assets in the background as necessary. This dramatically reduces load times, which was one of the biggest complaints with Unreal on the web previously. Website for more info - https://theimmersiveweb.com/ https://theimmersiveweb.com/ Our Discord: https://discord.gg/cFJV6Yu https://discord.gg/cFJV6Yu