WebGL optimization for 3D online chess

[jeromechoain 6]

Hi everyone,

we’ve been working hard on optimization for the king of the games: chess.
It has been 100% revisited.
We shared about our technical researches. We are talking about Low Poly Retopology and 3D normal maps: http://www.jocly.com/node/374

About the game, here is a presentation video:

 

 

If you want to give it a try you can play here: http://www.jocly.com/#/play/classic-chess

Includes basic jocly features:
- play vs computer, friends or other jocly users
- chat room
- video chat (WebRTC)
- recorded games for replay
- embedding tools
- development tools

Feedback very welcome

Thanks.

jerome

[borislavbaros 0]

This challenging game is a regular fun and engaging 2D chess game with 3D view that should not be mixed up with Tri-Dimensional Chess.ChessJam is a free online chess game with a beautiful interface and 3D chess board.

[Blender man 13]

Optimization for 3D browser games is very important. Check our tutorial on this topic in which we heavely use texture atlases and pack specular maps into the alpha channel of diffuse textures.

 

[oddskill 5]

Looks very nice, thanks,

especially for the link where you show

how to create those normal maps in blender.

Seems to be a very efficient way to save cpu/gpu resources when dealing with 3d models.