Show HN: WebGL Insight, a Debugging Toolkit for Chrome

phoboslab · on March 15, 2016

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/

microcolonel · on March 15, 2016

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 · on March 15, 2016

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

mixedbit · on March 15, 2016

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

blisse · on March 15, 2016

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.

aappleby · on March 15, 2016

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

blisse · on March 15, 2016

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!