4.25?

[fllyingburritos]

Is there a way to get html5 in unreal engine 4.25? It came out 2 days ago.

[eeench]

Yes I am also interested in this!! I cannot access the github html5 directory

[Simonkfc]

ill add myself to the line looking for this, so sad they removed html support

[JulienLussiez]

Same here.

[Mosel3y]

See here: https://github.com/UnrealEngineHTML5/Documentation/blob/master/Platforms/HTML5/HowTo/README.4.faq.UE4.HTML5.md#warning-this-is-not-for-the-faint-of-heart

ES2 is removed from 4.25. So getting HTML5 working would be a lot of work. It's not clear whether Nick is still working on this.

Unfortunately this isn't going to happen without developers working on it.

[fllyingburritos]

That's stupid, Epic Games said new vertions would be on github...

[fllyingburritos]

also what is ES2? Sorry, I have no idea

[eeench]

Does anyone know the reason for this? I am now basically stuck with 4.23 for my WebGL projects...

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[JulienLussiez]

This is not stupid but unfortunate. Epic didn't say that newer version would be on GitHub but that was now a community effort to make newer versions. I thought more developers would have worked on this but it seems that nobody cares so yes, we are stuck with 4.23. The fact that nobody cares is probably the reason why Epic dropped it.

[fllyingburritos]

4.24 works

[fllyingburritos]

there are definitely a lot of people that are interested in it though. This video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czirUc7tJpU&t=28s shows how to set up 4.24, and it has over 600 views.

[JulienLussiez]

Yes, I'm also very interested! Sometimes I participate in game jams and it's so much better to have a web version for this kind of event. Unfortunately, I had an issue with the 4.24 version but yes, I know it works but like Mosel3y said : "ES2 is removed from 4.25. So getting HTML5 working would be a lot of work." so without this work, we won't have a new version. I don't know if people are working on it. I hope so.

[fllyingburritos]

What is ES2?

[Mosel3y]

What is ES2?

@fllyingburritos It refers to the OpenGL version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL_ES

Unreal now uses ES3.1

[nickshinpho]

the webgl team (as well as the emscripten team) at google (and mozilla before them) was helping out with epic during and up to the UE4.23 release. there was a conscience decision to provide support for the "bare minimum" support "most" web browsers would support. this was:

• webgl (1) -> ES2

(i can't remember when, but by) UE4.24 HTML5 does however, defaults to:

• webgl2 -> ES3
  • (and i believe i removed the webgl 1 fallback code in 4.24 -- all in anticipation of getting ready to move to ES3.1)

anyways... the other major factor of why UE4's HTML5 plaform was deprecated was due to commercial/enterprise level usage (or lack thereof). epic was spending a gigantic amount of testing resources -- 3 OS, 2 major browsers, with 2 additional (herding cats) ones -- for what seemed like little return (on projects targeting HTML5).

so it was a business decision to sunset it.

maybe when webGPU really gets going ... they will all bring it back alive ... (that's a big maybe...)

• if there's only a handful of people using it (versus millions like consoles and PCs... there's little reason for them to do so...)
• hence this fork to keep this going... just in case...

that said, today at the studio, i am busier than ever and cannot devote much time to UE4's HTML5 platform (whereas before, epic was bank rolling this effort).

• please be patient with me if i seem to drop off -- i need to stay on top of the things that pay the billls...
• and i am appreciating more and more people that are able to help when they can

as for where "this" HTML5 is at for 4.25 -- i've started to see what it would take to get this up and running.

• i got it to the point of no compile errors -- but linking is a problem
• when i get to a successful link -- i'll push it up here
• to which i will need help from the public to get any run time issues figured out

thanks in advanced!

[Mosel3y]

Hey Nick, would like to say I appreciate your work on this. I understand you won't have as much time to do so. I'll be happy to help with issues and testing where possible.