https://github.com/toji/webgl-ios-rage
(Edit: Code now resides on github, by popular demand. I won't be maintaining the Google Code version in the future.)
Okay, this is a bit of a different release for me, because I'm really not happy with the state of the code as is, but I'm putting it up anyway. Basically what it boils down to is that I promised to have the code up this week, and I don't want to break that promise. Beyond that, however, I have a new job at Motorola that I'm starting on Monday. (I haven't mentioned that on the blog yet, have I? I forget that not everyone on this site reads my tweets.) I leave for California tomorrow, and since there's no way in hell that I'm checking my iMac as luggage I'll be without a good personal development machine for something on the order of three weeks. So when it came down to a choice between releasing some ugly code now or releasing some prettier code a month from now, I figured you guys would forgive me if I just pushed what I had!
A few notes about the release:
You'll need to compile the PVRtoJPG.cpp into an executable that can be called by the tex_parse python script. (I've included an OSX build) The python script breaks an .iosTex file down into individual PVR files, and then translates those into the JPGs that you need for the walkthrough.
For the YouTube demo I was running off of a server on my local machine. This skirts around the problem of how long it takes to download the texture files. If you run this from a remote server currently you'll likely end up with the wrong texture most of the time. This could be solved by buffering image downloads much like a streaming video, where we start downloading before the initial render, time how long it takes for X number of images, then figure out how far ahead we need to have downloaded before we start moving.
The number one slowdown in the demo is unquestionably the process of actually pushing textures into video memory (gl.texImage2D calls). There's very little that can be done to mitigate that (use smaller textures, maybe?) but things could be helped if I restricted it to at most one gl.texImage2D call per frame. Right now they have the potential to come in big batches.
As I said in my tech talk notes, it took me a while to figure out exactly what the texture structures were. As a result, the code sometimes refers to them as "offests" and sometimes as "textures". Sorry for the confusion, I'll clean that up next time I get a chance.
If anyone has questions about the code I'll be happy to answer! And expect me to push out some improvements to the project once my personal life settles down a bit.
