Runescape 3 rendering in HTML5 using...?

ziikutv

Hello,

Jagex's new Runescape 3 will be in HTML5 (article here) but I am wondering if they wrote their own engine or used something that is already out there? Such as Node, Impact etc?

I know there are a couple of recruiters of Jagex here, hopefully they shed some light on this.

Angry Beaver

They probably wrote their own seeing as after looking at the screenshots I can probably guarantee their using ASM.JS, none of the webGL rendering engine I know of even use it. There's a small chance it uses the UDK port but I don't think so.

ziikutv

UDK Cannot make MMOs.

Edit: I needed to know this because I was writing a piece on future prospects of this industry and I wanted to use them to show that HTML5 is heading somewhere special. I emailed them and they didn't respond how nice. Guess I am just going to add that to the article.

Ark

ziikutv wrote: »

UDK Cannot make MMOs.

Tera says otherwise.

blankslatejoe

Yeah there have been a bunch of UE3 MMOs (usually they write their own server stuff, I bet) but I dunno if any have been UDK explicitly. Either way, this HTML5 Runescape stuff is almost certainly not any form of Unreal.

ziikutv

UDK != UE3 || UDK != UEX (here X is any version of Unreal Engine)

http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/806286-MMORPG-with-UDK-Android
http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/755565-Is-it-possible-to-create-an-MMO-with-UDK/page3?highlight=MMORPG

You need full source code. I have done my research, go search on Epic Game's forums there are tonnes of posts on this very topic. Its not possible with the limited code in UDK. You need full code and you need to heavily modify the interaction between client and server because UDK or UE server code is not made for MMOs (unless you think MMO has less than 1000 users - in other words if you are a moron). If you find the right one of tonnes of questions you will see Epic staff tell you why exactly it isn't possible.

Also, the first person to reply to the thread...

...none of the webGL rendering engine I know of even use it.

ASM.js renders using WebGL.



That said, I never heard of ASM.JS until you mentioned it so thanks

Justin Meisse

ziikutv wrote: »

UDK != UE3 || UDK != UEX (here X is any version of Unreal Engine)

It's also generally accepted when someone refers to an established studio using UDK they probably meant to say UE3.

Angry Beaver

ziikutv wrote: »

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ASM.js renders using WebGL...

To be clear, I didn't mean that ASM.js doesn't render using WebGL, it'd be silly to have near native speeds and not use the GPU, I meant that none of the WebGL rendering libraries written in javascript that I knew of were ASM.js compatible. This being because ASM.js asks for a very specific subset of javascript. But I could be wrong again