Forums » Impact Engine » WebGL renderer?

Currently Impact's performance seems more or less OK with the stuff I've tried, however http://muizelaar.blogspot.com/2011/02/drawing-sprites-canvas-2d-vs-webgl.html seems to suggest that WebGL has major performance benefits even for 2D sprite based games.

Are you considering something like this (say for 2.0 or 3.0)?

Yes, I definitely want to try that. Using WebGL would allow for an awesome demo game with thousands of sprites. You know, like one of those games :)

There's also a (very new) project that tries to bring the Canvas2D API to WebGL. I haven't tested it yet.
https://github.com/corbanbrook/webgl-2d

I was also thinking Dominic, would it is possible to use Google's V8 engine together with Impact and hooks into OpenGl to create desktop (full screen) games outside of the web browser?

Yeah, getting into bullet hell territory is a very exciting prospect. I definitely cast my vote for this :)

Just came across a WebGL fractal generator that is kinda neat:

http://fractal.io/

I'd be very excited to make HUGE numbers of sprites in a game!

yeayea!
Canvas2D to WebGL - that whould be great.
Or just draw things to WebGL directly from Impact.
Dominic, you definitely should try this thing. It's gonna be awesome.

I got this working. I made a blog post about it here: http://blog.hiive.com/2011/07/accelerating-impactjs-with-webgl.html