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Re:Bevy and WebGPU by jms55 on Thursday May 18, 2023 @10:07PM (#35996942)
Not currently. Rendering is provided by the wgpu library, which wraps vulkan/directx12/directx11/webgpu/metal/opengl es/webgl2. No webgl1 support. If wgpu gained webgl1 support in the future then bevy would too, but it's unlikely imo. Webgl2 is already extremely limiting as it is (no storage buffers/textures, no compute passes).

What is your use case for needing webgl1?

Bevy is also extremely modular. If you absolutely need webgl1 support, you can implement it yourself as a plugin without losing the rest of the non-rendering parts of bevy like audio, input, the core ECS of course, etc.

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Re:Bevy and WebGPU by Narishma on Thursday May 18, 2023 @10:16PM (#35996995)
I have a bunch of machines that only support DX9/GL2.1/GLES2.0/WebGL1 that I'd like to target. I'm currently using Unity for that.
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Re:Bevy and WebGPU by jms55 on Thursday May 18, 2023 @11:12PM (#35997294)
Unfortunately those APIs are pretty ancient. Even if Bevy were to provide a renderer targeting those, it would end up being _much_ more limited. DX11/GLES 3/WebGL 2 are already pretty limited targets.

We simply don't have the contributors to create and maintain such a renderer, at least at the moment.

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