I’m honoured. Thank you!

This is amazing. I use Bevy and Rust and want to learn shading with WebGPU. Thanks!

Hello gentleman (nods), it's nice to see you all here! 🧐

30s in and all I could think of was how much the video structure and script reminded me of NoBoilerplate videos. Pretty cool to see your comment, I'd guess that you're an inspiration for this channel.

@@adam-the-dev He is 😄

Nice. More will be coming soon.

Let’s go 🔥

awwwmazing things

It is absolutely amazing!

Oh, you mean like OpenGL did ? that is why OpenGL is criticized as slow on weak CPUs, because it abstracts the hardware (if the CPU is powerful then the overhead is little problem).

@@staubsauger2305 No, OpenGL is the graphics API that gets implemented by the driver but OpenGL assumes lots of things about memory and buffer layout, etc… New APIs like DX, Vulkan, Metal are more verbose but not cross platform (except Vulkan for Win/Linux)… That‘s why WebGPU is so cool, it brings all those APIs under one hat and uses the best API below, even OpenGL if necessary

@@maxkofler7831 the OpenGL model is that the driver implementer knows more about the hardware than the average developer. The hardware is abstracted and the application developer has a more limited ability to control execution so some optimizations are not available, except through the extension mechanism. In contrast, lower-level APIs give more ability for the appplication developer to optimize at the cost of greater development time, greater risk of bugs and the app developer has to do more work for performance on each architecture. It's a trade-off as everything is. WebGPU is a return to OpenGL in the sense that it is a higher level of abstraction than the underlying layers - which means many of the things moaned about in OpenGL must necessarily return - which is ok but folks have to be real about it instead if merely 'teh nu shiny'. That's all I'm saying. And platform-independence is a must, devices are becoming more heterogenous rather than less (eg. the 3. 3 billion devices running the Linux and Java flavors branded 'Android').

The biggest problem for us was absence of support for IOS. We wanted to make true web cross platform game, otherwise it is just much simpler to desktop applications

Thanks for watching!

Does that mean websites can mine bitcoin on my computer now?

Thanks for the kind words. 😇

That’s right sir 😇 Thanks 🙏

I appreciate the compliment. Thanks!

Glad you liked it

Glad to hear it!

Thanks. Glad you liked it!

Glad you found it useful 😄

🙏

haha. I was really close to the microphone when I was recording the audio file...

We're probably gonna have a video on that. Don't wanna spoil anything. But thanks for the detailed comment.

Glad you think so!

100% Three.js is already building it.

Glad you liked it 😉

I appreciate the kind words 🙏

Thank You! I really appreciate this ♥

Thank You. I use Davinci Resolve, blender, and sometimes code.

That’s the plan 🤞

You're 100% right! Thanks for pointing this out. I think when I was describing this I meant: "it changes from the outside" and uniforms update frequently. But technically your description is correct.

It's a custom node I've built with some lua code in Davinci Resolve.

Thanks for the tip !

Thanks

VsCode. With Vim.

I have no idea. Probably not ( my guess ), because this is a fairly new API.

It’s a highly customised version of vscode.

Better, more complex experiences on the web. WebGPU has a massive potential for increasing compute power. This means that you're gonna be able to do many things faster (most of these things are graphics related). If you're interested you can search for Applications Of Compute Shaders. ( On Google )

@@visionary_3_d can we write algorithmic functions and have them evaluated on the gpu using compute shaders ? If so it’s applications could extend beyond just graphics, provided there exists a performance benefit.

You are correct! However I didn't want to make the explanation complicated. you can use the drawIndexed function in your renderpass in WebGPU to make that happen.

Best way for now is to read the webgpu fundumentals series ( series of articles ). But I'm making new content on this so stay tuned for that...

Glad you liked it 😊

You learn by doing. Try to recreate the websites that you like. Start with easy ones. You'll learn javascript and every other thing you'll need along the way.

I have looked at babylon and here's my recommendation. Babylon is fantastic for creating more complex projects compared to raw WebGPU. However learning WebGPU first provides huge advantages in the long run, since you understand what's happening under the hood. I don't think it's that much easier to learn Babylon first, since the layer of abstraction that Babylon provides is thin, IMO.

Ofc.

Good find haha 😂

Well, that's fair. To me they are the same. But I'll make sure I say "Typescript" in future videos.

True, but that applies to any new tech.

I agree. It is very rust like 😋

Thanks

Haha. You’re right 😂

Yes, I'm on it already.

It's not that difficult actually if you know glsl already. You'll have to try it tho to know...

Fantastic question. You are 99% right. Mostly what you can create with WebGPU vs WebGL are the same. There can be some advantages which I'll explain (these are my opinion): 1. Biggest one in my opinion is compute shaders. Compute shaders allow you to run you shader in parallel on the gpu but they're way more flexible and more general purposed than VS and FS shaders. Before, you could do what you can do in compute shaders in normal Fragment shaders, but that was much more difficult to do. So ease of use is a key factor. 2. IDK if you have worked with raw WegGL before. It's an ugly mess. WebGPU is a fantastic upgrade and has a way simpler API. 3. Better performance with having more control over how things work in your application. ( this requires you to know the WebGPU api well ) 4. WebGPU is built on top of Vulkan ( for windows ) and Metal ( for mac ) I beleive. Vulkan has some really nice features for Raytracing as far as I'm aware of and so, we're going to have a RayTracingPipeline further down the line. In terms of what you can build with it we're going to have more videos on the channel. so stay tuned 😃

First off, great video, thank you! Secondly, I was thinking "this looks a lot like Metal" so interesting to see this confirmed. Thanks again. Looking forward to more videos@@visionary_3_d

Thanks for the honest feedback. I agree that the explanation could've been a bit more beginner friendly for the second part of the video.

That’s right 👍

Roger that!

probably in 1-2 years...

Haha 😄 Don't worry, I'll make another video on WebGPU this next month anyways.

That's right 🤣 But better is always relative.

@@visionary_3_d 😉

Something like that but better. Based on my experience at least.

Oh thanks for the suggestion. However I didn't really understand what you meant here. Can you elaborate ?

True!

Hmmm. You're actually right. Since I'm a developer I have the answers to all of those questions in my head already but for the viewer, those are important details. In my next video I'll mention these things. Thanks for the precious feedback.

nope

Good point. I think I agree with you.

lol

I agree 👌👌

OpenGL (especially on latest versions) is good enough, but it still doesn't expose some specific modern GPU APIs. It's enough for 2d and basic 3d rendering, but when building a 3d game, you'd probably want to use various hardware acceleration APIs. Also, because OpenGL is considered legacy, modern GPUs are gradually dropping hardware implementations for some OpenGL-specific stuff, moving it to software driver implementations, using CPU to translate old OpenGL commands to a new format used by modern APIs

Which part ? WebGPU is not beginner friendly but I'll try to explain it better next time.

@@visionary_3_dthis isn’t beginner material so don’t dumb it down too hard

In 2023 you're getting the foundation of the technology that's going to power AAA games in the future. ( This is just my opinion ) But I agree that flash was super cool back in the day and I also agree that there could be much more innovations in this space. My hope is that WebGPU is going to give us more power to make that happen.

Back in 2006 I did things with Flash that no HTML5 and webGPU is capable today or tomorrow, the problem is that innovations on the web died with flash, today ALL websites takes forever to load, ugly, videos don't have Alpha, it is true mess. Websites are a thing from the past, Apps is here to replace websites because they are just used for data or text re-source. People did not know that Flash was a platform that you could create super fast applications in minutes vs months and it works 100% every time if you knoew how to use and code right (Just look at Fox news and CNN website, what a horrible experience with Ads all over and videos/ui that does not work in both PC and Mobile. And today we have very fast internet and every site takes forever to load@@visionary_3_d

That is correct. Some games will prioritize stability and performance across all devices, while some won't.

Got it. Thanks for the feedback!