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This is more a question of curiosity than one of judgment: why does it take so long to load? I guess I expected it to be very fast because of the relative simpl

by CSSer 3y ago

This is more a question of curiosity than one of judgment: why does it take so long to load? I guess I expected it to be very fast because of the relative simplicity. Forgive me, I know nothing about Godot or Unity. This is still very cool.

Tiberium 3y ago
Godot packs the whole engine runtime when packing the game no matter the platform, but in this case it's also probably because the internet connection on the server is slow - https://lfgslots.com/classicvideopoker/index.wasm https://lfgslots.com/classicvideopoker/index.wasm (26MB, main engine runtime) took me 22s to load, and https://lfgslots.com/classicvideopoker/index.pck https://lfgslots.com/classicvideopoker/index.pck (16MB, game resources) 34s.
- sinuhe69 3y ago
  Must be the bandwidth to the server. On my PC, it took 18 s to load.
ajdegol 3y ago
looks like the loading is the 45mb download it needs to do.
danielheath 3y ago
Cross-compilation to webassembly doesn't typically produce small binaries at this point (although it's possible to make small webassembly programs, compiling arbitrary C code to wasm results in large binaries).
- skywal_l 3y ago
  Couldn't this be reduced with LTO?
- DannyWebbie 3y ago
  Maybe, but Godot does particularly poorly in this area. Unity can go below 3MB out of the box and that is with bunch of engine systems in use. https://github.com/JohannesDeml/UnityWebGL-LoadingTest https://github.com/JohannesDeml/UnityWebGL-LoadingTest
mentos 3y ago
As a gamedev in Unreal Engine since 2014, this is my only feedback. The demo took way too long to load I almost gave up.
gamblor956 3y ago
It took less than a second to load for me (on Firefox). I was actually impressed with the loading speed since it usually takes 10-15 seconds for Unity's Webplayer to load.
dvngnt_ 3y ago
took < 5 secs for me
zestyping 3y ago
I wondered this too. 45 MB is a huge download for a poker game, even with nice graphics.

by CSSer 3y ago

Tiberium 3y ago

Godot packs the whole engine runtime when packing the game no matter the platform, but in this case it's also probably because the internet connection on the server is slow - https://lfgslots.com/classicvideopoker/index.wasm https://lfgslots.com/classicvideopoker/index.wasm (26MB, main engine runtime) took me 22s to load, and https://lfgslots.com/classicvideopoker/index.pck https://lfgslots.com/classicvideopoker/index.pck (16MB, game resources) 34s.

sinuhe69 3y ago
Must be the bandwidth to the server. On my PC, it took 18 s to load.

ajdegol 3y ago

looks like the loading is the 45mb download it needs to do.

danielheath 3y ago

Cross-compilation to webassembly doesn't typically produce small binaries at this point (although it's possible to make small webassembly programs, compiling arbitrary C code to wasm results in large binaries).

skywal_l 3y ago
Couldn't this be reduced with LTO?
DannyWebbie 3y ago
Maybe, but Godot does particularly poorly in this area. Unity can go below 3MB out of the box and that is with bunch of engine systems in use. https://github.com/JohannesDeml/UnityWebGL-LoadingTest https://github.com/JohannesDeml/UnityWebGL-LoadingTest

mentos 3y ago

As a gamedev in Unreal Engine since 2014, this is my only feedback. The demo took way too long to load I almost gave up.

gamblor956 3y ago

It took less than a second to load for me (on Firefox). I was actually impressed with the loading speed since it usually takes 10-15 seconds for Unity's Webplayer to load.

dvngnt_ 3y ago

took < 5 secs for me

zestyping 3y ago

I wondered this too. 45 MB is a huge download for a poker game, even with nice graphics.