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Getting started with WebGL

WebGL odblokowuje zawartość używając podstawowego API na OpenGL ES 2.0 do przygotowania renderingu 3D w HTML canvas w przeglądarce to wpomaga działanie bez użycia pluginów. programy WebGL składają się z kontrolnego kodu napisanego w JavaScript i kodu specjalnych efektów (shader code) który jest wykonywany na GPU komputera. Elementy WebGl mogą być mieszane z innymi elementami i kompozycjami HTML z innymi częściami strony.

This article will introduce you to the basics of using WebGL. It's assumed that you already have an understanding of the mathematics involved in 3D graphics, and this article doesn't pretend to try to teach you OpenGL itself.

Preparing to render in 3D

The first thing you need in order to use WebGL to render in 3D is a canvas. The HTML fragment below establishes a canvas and sets up an onload event handler that will be used to initialize our WebGL context.

<body onload="start()">
  <canvas id="glcanvas" width="640" height="480">
    Your browser doesn't appear to support the HTML5 <code>&lt;canvas&gt;</code> element.
  </canvas>
</body>

Preparing the WebGL context

The start() function, in our JavaScript code, is called after the document is loaded. Its mission is to set up the WebGL context and start rendering content.

var gl; // A global variable for the WebGL context

function start() {
  var canvas = document.getElementById("glcanvas");

  gl = initWebGL(canvas);      // Initialize the GL context
  
  // Only continue if WebGL is available and working
  
  if (gl) {
    gl.clearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);                      // Set clear color to black, fully opaque
    gl.enable(gl.DEPTH_TEST);                               // Enable depth testing
    gl.depthFunc(gl.LEQUAL);                                // Near things obscure far things
    gl.clear(gl.COLOR_BUFFER_BIT|gl.DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);      // Clear the color as well as the depth buffer.
  }
}

The first thing we do here is obtain a reference to the canvas, stashing it in a variable called canvas. Obviously if you don't need to repeatedly reference the canvas, you should avoid saving this value globally, and just save it in a local variable or member field of an object.

Once we have the canvas, we call a function called initWebGL(); this is a function we'll define momentarily; its job is to initialize the WebGL context.

If the context is successfully initialized, gl is a reference to it. In this case, we set the clear color to black, then clear the context to that color. After that, the context is configured by setting parameters. In this case, we're enabling depth testing and specifying that closer objects will obscure objects that are farther away.

For the purposes of this initial pass at the code, that's all we're going to do. We'll look at how to actually start doing something a little later.

Creating a WebGL context

The initWebGL() function looks like this:

function initWebGL(canvas) {
  gl = null;
  
  try {
    // Try to grab the standard context. If it fails, fallback to experimental.
    gl = canvas.getContext("webgl") || canvas.getContext("experimental-webgl");
  }
  catch(e) {}
  
  // If we don't have a GL context, give up now
  if (!gl) {
    alert("Unable to initialize WebGL. Your browser may not support it.");
    gl = null;
  }
  
  return gl;
}

To obtain a WebGL context for a canvas, we request the context named "webgl" from the canvas. If this fails, we try the name "experimental-webgl". If that, too, fails, we display an alert letting the user know they appear not to have WebGL support. That's all there is to it. At this point, gl is either null (meaning there is no WebGL context available) or is a reference to the WebGL context into which we'll be rendering.

Note: The context name "experimental-webgl" is a temporary name for the context for use during development of the specification; the name "webgl" will be used once the spec is finalized.

At this point, you have enough code that the WebGL context should successfully initialize, and you should wind up with a big black, empty box, ready and waiting to receive content.

Try this example live by clicking here if you're running a WebGL compatible browser.

Resizing the WebGL context

A new WebGL context will set its viewport resolution to the height and width of its canvas element, without CSS, at the instant the context was obtained. Editing the style of a canvas element will change its displayed size but will not change its rendering resolution. Editing the width and height attributes of a canvas element after the context has been created will also not change the number of pixels to be drawn. To change the resolution which WebGL renders at, such as when the user resizes the window of a full-document canvas or you wish to provide in-app adjustable graphics settings, you will need to call the WebGL context's viewport() function to acknowledge the change.

To modify the rendered resolution of a WebGL context with variables gl and canvas as used in the above example:

gl.viewport(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);

A canvas will experience scaling when it is rendered at a different resolution than its CSS style makes it occupy on the display. Resizing with CSS is mostly useful to save resources by rendering at a low resolution and allowing the browser to upscale; downscaling is possible which would produce a super sample antialiasing (SSAA) effect (albeit with naive results and a severe performance cost). It is often best to rely upon the MSAA and texture filtering implementations of the user's browser, if available and appropriate, rather than doing it via brute force and hoping that the browser's image reduction algorithm produces a cleaner result.

See also

  • An introduction to WebGL - Written by Luz Caballero at the DEV.OPERA. This article addresses that what WebGL is, how WebGL works and the rendering pipeline concept and introduces some WebGL libraries.
  • An intro to modern OpenGL - A series of nice articles about OpenGL written by Joe Groff. Joe gives a clear intro about OpenGL from its history to the important graphics pipeline concept and provides some examples to demo how OpenGL works. If you have no idea about OpenGL, this is a good place to start.

 

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