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by VoidWhisperer 357 days ago
Given that the original project (at https://sourceforge.net/p/extremetuxracer/code/HEAD if i'm not mistaken) is C++, I wonder if it is possible to port the original in some form using WASM.

This is not to take away from the work that the OP has done - it is impressive, I'm just kind of thinking out loud here.
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proc0 357 days ago
Looks like it would be possible with Emscripten but I'm not sure what OpenGL version its using so that's probably the biggest dependency there.
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q3k 357 days ago
I tried doing this a few years ago, mapping OpenGL 1.x primitives into WebGL was indeed a pain. There were some translation layers but they were either incomplete or targetting GLES, not classical OoenGL.

I then attempted to actually rewrite ETR to use GLES (or modern OpenGL in general), but that also turned out to be quite an effort given how the original engine/game code is structured.

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proc0 356 days ago
Interesting. Sounds like a rewrite would be faster since the game itself doesn't seem that complicated.
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