Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL

Re:Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL by shaded-enmity on Saturday April 09, 2022 @01:23AM (#30965464)

This looks amazing but I'd appreciate an autoplay button or free walk + look, the scrollwheel monorail handcranking makes the exploration rather frustrating.

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Re:Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL by manigandham on Saturday April 09, 2022 @01:26AM (#30965471)

Agreed. The content is great but UX is terrible so I quit early. Scrolling is not a good way to initiate action and is extremely annoying to deal with.

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Re:Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL by darkteflon on Saturday April 09, 2022 @01:36AM (#30965496)

It’s so bad. What a waste of great material.

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Re:Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL by vitejose on Saturday April 09, 2022 @01:57AM (#30965571)

Arrow keys and page-down don’t work either :/

There’s a set of accessibility options; maybe they could add some alternative navigation methods.

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Re:Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL by pragmatick on Saturday April 09, 2022 @02:13AM (#30965634)

Arrow keys work for me. But it's still strange because when you keep it pressed often nothing happens for a time and then abruptly you move too quickly.

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Re:Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL by thanatos519 on Saturday April 09, 2022 @01:56AM (#30965564)

Right! It's like a museum with mandatory guided tours.

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Re:Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL by molmalo on Saturday April 09, 2022 @02:37AM (#30965718)

I agree. What worked for me, was using chrome dev tools, then emulating a tablet so i could drag up/down to 'walk' and sideways to look around.

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Re:Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL by colordrops on Saturday April 09, 2022 @01:56AM (#30965563)

It's not even working on my phone (Android + chromium), just stuck at 100.

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Re:Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL by Tor3 on Saturday April 09, 2022 @02:33AM (#30965709)

Likewise (tablet).

Tried it on a PC. It's close to useless, unfortunately.

Too bad, these other efforts elsewhere to create 3D models of ancient cities work fine both on a PC and Android tablets.

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Re:Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL by tauwauwau on Saturday April 09, 2022 @02:36AM (#30965715)

On some sections you can drag the mouse to change point of view.

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