{"id":53504,"date":"2013-05-05T16:14:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T14:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=53504"},"modified":"2013-05-05T16:18:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T14:18:03","slug":"unreal-engine-running-on-html-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/53504-unreal-engine-running-on-html-5","title":{"rendered":"Unreal engine running on HTML 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games has achieved in running the company\u2019s impressive Unreal Engine on HTML 5 browsers.<\/p>\n<p>In order to do this impressive feat, Epic has utilised a new technology that is based on the latest existing web standards. The browser requires Web GL and JavaScript to run the demo.<\/p>\n<p>Epic is able to achieve running Unreal on HTML 5 by using emscripten to port C and C++ code to asm.js, which basically means that they\u2019ve squished and compiled all the fancy code to run smoothly on JavaScript.<\/p>\n<p>This allows for the JavaScript code to run at double the speed of its native performance, allowing for the complexities of a high-end game engine (like Unreal Engine 3) to run on a browser.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox Nightly (version 23 or higher) is recommended to run the Unreal demo, Epic Citadel HTML 5, but other browsers which meet the requirements will work.<\/p>\n<p>Epic listed some browsers, and the problems they&#8217;re currently experiencing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Nightly Firefox is recommended, and can be downloaded at <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/nightly.mozilla.org\/\">http:\/\/nightly.mozilla.org\/<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Release Firefox will function, however it is slower than Firefox Nightly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Chrome currently crashes, but is expected to be resolved by the Chrome team soon.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Internet Explorer does not support WebGL in current versions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Opera WebGL must be manually activated, however it is not currently compatible with Epic Citadel.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Safari WebGL must be manually activated. While Epic Citadel is not currently compatible with Safari, we are investigating adding support in the future.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With Unreal Engine 3 successfully running through a browser, it opens up a number of opportunities to bring more high-end games to web browsers, and in turn, to tablets and mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>To play the Epic Citadel demo, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unrealengine.com\/html5\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unreal Engine page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unrealengine.com\/html5_faq\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unreal Engine<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming tech news:<\/h3>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/videos\/52372-nvidia-tech-demo-highlights-destruction.html\">Nvidia tech demo highlights destruction<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/51073-skyrim-mod-is-absolutely-gorgeous.html\">Skyrim RealVision mod is absolutely gorgeous<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52309-incredible-connection-game-sale-on.html\">Incredible Connection game sale on<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic showcases the future of browser gaming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":52379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1415,21,2940,9441,2655,6494,2948],"class_list":["post-53504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-epic-games","tag-headline","tag-mozilla","tag-mozilla-firefox","tag-tech-demo","tag-unreal","tag-unreal-engine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53511,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53504\/revisions\/53511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}