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Re:Noclip by Jasper_ on Saturday February 23, 2019 @12:19PM (#19234275)
Hi, I'm the developer of the site. Safari doesn't seem to support WebGL2, which is why it shows up pure white. There should be an error message, but that appears to have broken at some point. Could you press F12 and tell me what the console says? I don't have a Mac myself, so I can't debug.

Chrome should be working. If it's rendering gibberish, could you go to http://webglreport.com/?v=2 and tell me what "Unmasked Vendor" and "Unmasked Renderer" say? There's a known ANGLE bug on AMD/Mac that I need to work around, but it causes performance issues so I try to limit it to platforms I know are broken; it sounds like you have a configuration that isn't in the whitelist.

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Re:Noclip by crazygringo on Saturday February 23, 2019 @07:49PM (#19236381)
Safari shows the red bar error message now.

In Chrome:

  Unmasked Vendor: Intel Inc.
  Unmasked Renderer: Intel(R) Iris(TM) Graphics 540
And on your site, immediately upon loading the console is giving me 29 different 404 errors across different filenames like:

  VM208:1 GET https://storage.googleapis.com/znoclip/z.noclip.website/j3d/smg/ObjectData/Hanachan.arc 404
  (anonymous) @ VM208:1
  i @ string_decoder.js:135
  e.getModel @ string_decoder.js:135
  c @ string_decoder.js:135
  e.spawnObject @ string_decoder.js:135
  e.spawnZone @ string_decoder.js:135
  y @ string_decoder.js:135
  ...
  string_decoder.js:135 Could not fetch archive 
  j3d/smg/ObjectData/Hanachan.arc 404
Hope that helps. Good luck! :) The idea sounds neat.
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Re:Noclip by Jasper_ on Saturday February 23, 2019 @07:56PM (#19236411)
The 404 errors are to be expected. Several users have reported an issue with the Intel(R) Iris(TM) Graphics 540 chipset, but unfortunately as I do not have hardware to test with, I am unable to debug it. But I suspect it's a driver issue. Let me try a few different ideas based on something I read online.

EDIT: I attempted to push one workaround. I cannot test it here, so please let me know if it helped.

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Re:Noclip by crazygringo on Saturday February 23, 2019 @08:18PM (#19236505)
Glad you're trying to fix it! Just emptied my cache and refreshed but no change in Chrome or Firefox, sorry... happy to check again in the future, just click my profile and e-mail me directly there

Bummer that drivers are that sensitive... I remembering the nightmare of dealing with different browsers/OS quirks for the HTML5 audio API, but at least I could test everything using virtual machines... graphic cards sound like a whole other level of hell. I had no idea.

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Re:Noclip by crazygringo on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @09:58AM (#19254738)
Just came back to this out of curiosity... it works now! However you did it, thanks :) super-cool!
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Re:Noclip by Hydraulix989 on Sunday February 24, 2019 @01:21AM (#19237410)
Also having the rendering problem on Mac for some but not all levels (Zelda OOT is broken, Banjo Kazooie works okay):

Unmasked Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc. Unmasked Renderer: AMD Radeon Pro 555 OpenGL Engine

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Re:Noclip by ungzd on Sunday February 24, 2019 @07:49AM (#19238370)
What's interesting is that it worked on my computer before reinstalling MacOS on new hdd, and now it stopped working, showing malformed geometry.

JS console output: "Batch 2 does not have TEX0. WTF? / Attributes: 600 index.js:14" (and the same for different batch ids) ATI Technologies Inc., AMD Radeon HD 6750M OpenGL Engine

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Re:Noclip by Jasper_ on Sunday February 24, 2019 @09:21AM (#19238639)
I broke the workaround for Mac AMD accidentally in the process of trying to fix Mac Intel. Should be fixed now. The "Batch 2 does not have TEX0" message is a normal warning for Luigi's Mansion.
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