[gameprogrammer] Re: World's first (?) 3d engine inside a browser

I'm not giving out the source since it's going to be a commercial game, but I'll tell you how I did it. You can create an MFC Active X control and use the regular drawing routines to output to a window. The problem is you cannot have any file dependencies, so you have to embed your data inside the control in a custom pak format. For Firefox, you need the plugin SDK. Here, you cannot embed anything but you could have dependencies if you had an installer. I opted to download the pak file specified by the SRC tag in the html. In both cases I then call a thread and pass it the necessary startup data, including the window handle. The thread is actually what runs the game.

The hardest difficulty was doing everything with no DLL dependencies or local files other than what the user would or should already have.

Triston O'Connor wrote: 
Did you use ATL or MFC?

I'd be interested in seeing the source. I've never written a plugin before
so not sure how to call the usual init, update, render, cleanup functions I
have in my engine.

Very nice the way it works in FF too btw. 


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