Show HN: WebGL Insight, a Debugging Toolkit for Chrome (github.com)

72 points by blisse 10y ago ↗ HN

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This looks excellent. Congratulations to you, Aaron, Adrian, and Dian for making such a handy tool.

Though the "programs" view seems to just combine all of the shaders found on the page. It includes "potential" programs which were never linked.

blisse 10y ago ↗

Lots of thanks from each of us! We hope you get a lot of use out of it :D

mixedbit 10y ago ↗

I will definitely try this. Does resource viewer support cube textures?

blisse 10y ago ↗

Thank you! Please let us know how it goes.

We currently don't do any special handling for cube textures, but that was one of the features we have planned next.

phoboslab 10y ago ↗

This AddOn really gives you a nice, high level overview of what's going on and where to optimize. I may just add that for lower level debugging WebGL Inspector[1] is also tremendously helpful.

Also, cool to see my game[2] as an example for the bad overdraw situation :)

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webgl-inspector/og... [2] http://phoboslab.org/xibalba/

aappleby 10y ago ↗

Doesn't seem to work on Google Maps. :/

blisse 10y ago ↗

Looking into what's going on in Google Maps now! It works in the Google Earth view, but only after moving the view a bit.

Thank you for pointing that out!