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Hi Elisee, Great to see Superpowers making progress. I'm interested in your choice of Three.js. Did you consider other WebGL game engines? Like PlayCanvas[1] (

Hi Elisee, Great to see Superpowers making progress. I'm interested in your choice of Three.js. Did you consider other WebGL game engines? Like PlayCanvas[1] (where I'm a co-founder) which is also open-source[2] but more designed towards games than three? [1]: https://playcanvas.com/ https://playcanvas.com/ [2]: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/ https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/

elisee 12y ago
Hi Dave! I didn't realize the PlayCanvas engine was standalone like Three.js, I somehow assumed it was linked with the online editing tools you built. Good news! Really impressed with your physically-based shading support by the way. We went with Three.js because it's pretty versatile and does everything we need in the near future. Superpowers is built in 3 layers: the core (which handles projects, storage and networking), the system (which is basically Three.js + game instance/actors/components) and all the editor & asset plugins built upon the system. The system can be swapped out with something else, and a new set of plugins can be built on top of it, or the existing plugins adapted for a new engine, so the community will totally be able experiment with other engines including PlayCanvas! We spent a lot of time designing the Superpowers platform so that this would be possible :). In fact, Superpowers could even be used to make movies or write novels collaboratively, with the appropriate system and set of plugins.