notchris / webgl2native

🔥 Render a WEBGL context natively without a browser 🔥

WEBGL (HEADLESS) -> QT Canvas (NATIVE) by notchris

Install

• Note: npm i can take like 5 minutes to resolve because headless-gl needs to be rebuilt for node v16 and qt-core then has to be recompiled and it doesn't print a status message and it's pretty annoying.

Run

npm run start

• AND BAM -> A native webgl render via headless GL.

Why?

Because a lot of libraries only have a drawing context as a dependency. If you shim out calls to document and window then you don't need a browser at all!

• Is it faster than Electron?

• Yes, but it would be way faster if I port QT's GL content and pass the pixel dats as a buffer instead of copying the pixels to a QPainter.