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

Thanks, I figured so much, I guess I just have to dust off my C++ skills :) 

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