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Godot 4 - Can't Export To HTML5 ?

JeZxLee

Hi,

Was going to export to HTML5 in Godot 4 alpha 15, but it says:
"The web platform is currently not supported in Godot 4, as there is no suitable renderer for it." ??

Any idea when the above will be working?

Jesse

duane

"Years."

https://godotengine.org/qa/129054/godot-4-html5-webassembly-export

JeZxLee

Will Beta 1 have HTML5 export?

Pixophir

No, and links are not there to be ignored.

Here's the gist: That comes either together with OpenGL, so Godot 4.x, probably 4.1, no date is known. Or when Vulcan supports it, which is in the stars. It is recommended you stay with 3.x for the time being.

Also, as you should know, your current efforts of porting your framework will partly have to be repeated since there will still be breaking changes before 4.0 is finally released for production use. So don't be disappointed when that happens.

JeZxLee

Sorry, but at this time we are putting this 3.x to 4 conversion aside.
Not having HTML5 export is unfortunately a deal breaker for us...

duane

I feel the same, but different people have different priorities. At least anyone who wants to can use most of the same codebase on both versions.

cybereality

I understand. One of my projects requires HTML5, so I am planning on joining the Godot team once I finish college (in about 2 months). I already started reading through the Godot 4.0 source code, but I'm learning right now, I haven't contributed yet. I work pretty fast, though, and if I can dedicate the time, I think I can fix the OpenGL renderer in about 6 months (or 1 year, at the most, if no one else helps me). Sadly, no other engine provides good HTML5 support (particularly on mobile) so it's not like there is any other choice.

duane

For my money, haxe/flixel does html better than godot, and I'm told haxe/heaps is just as good. Haxe compiles to javascript, so no giant block of webassembly is necessary. And it supports lots of other platforms. It's just not as easy to jump into as unity or godot -- you don't have a standard ide, unless you count vscode.

cybereality

Yes, there are Javascript frameworks that work, I have tested some. Spent some time with Three.js and tried some others. They support standard Javascript and work fine. However, AFAIK, none of them have a stable official editor/IDE, making game development really difficult. The strength of an engine is in the tools. The editor, import libraries, code IDE, material properties, animation track, WYSIWYG modification. The actual rendering code is fairly easy and does not take that long to create. You can probably build a basic render engine in a few months. But it is useless without good tooling.

JeZxLee

We uploaded the unfinished Godot 4 alpha 15+ version on GitHub below:
https://github.com/BetaMaxHero/GDScript_Godot_4_T-Story

Everything is working except text drawing and load/save game data.

We will come back to this at a later time when Godot 4 is more mature...

duane

It looks like my facetious prediction is coming true. Web export has been enabled in alpha 16.

cybereality

Nice. I wasn't expecting that so soon. From what I understand it's very incomplete, though, especially in terms of the effects, but it's nice that there is something to work with now.

duane

As long as it makes it into beta, I'm happy.

JeZxLee

Hi,

We build for HTML5 using Alpha 16, but it does not run?:
https://betamaxhero.itch.io/gdscript-godot-4-t-story

Any ideas?
Thanks!

Jesse

cybereality

It's an alpha and the web export is experimental. It's hard to say.