My company is working to bring Unreal to the browser, and we've built out a custom WebGPU RHI for Unreal Engine 5.
Here are demos of the tech in action, for anyone interested:
(Will only work on Chromium-based browsers on desktop, and on some Android phones)
Cropout: https://play-dev.simplystream.com/?token=aa91857c-ab14-4c24-...
Car configurator: https://garage.cjponyparts.com/
This post is about WebGPU in Firefox. Do you plan to test and/or release a Firefox-compatible version?
Cropout: After being stuck at 0% for a long while and 1200 network requests, it loads to a menu with a black background and will start a game but only UI elements show up. Seems to have a lot of errors parsing shaders, as well as a few other miscellaneous errors.
Car configurator: Several errors while at 0% (never loads), the first among them being `[223402304]: MessageBox type 0 Caption Message Text Game files required to initialize the global shader and cooked content are most likely missing. Refer to Engine log for details.`
I would concur with others that you should at least test this in Firefox before advertising it here.
If it does crash, you'll be able to see why. I'd be interested in seeing any bug reports if you do fine some, we're always squashing bugs over here!
To be good on the web requires designing your game to start immediately with the minimal amount of downloaded. Maybe stream some stuff in the background but be playable immediately. AFAICT neither Unreal nor Unity do that by default. You can maybe coerce them to do it but most devs don't. As such they get these bad experiences when they try to put their creation on the web
Are we supposed to try them out on the same kind of high end gamer desktop setup requirements for the native version?
you work in Epic Games?