regal

Or this one too (there are plenty - and I think Valve released some tools too). This one has been pretty handy - https://github.com/p3/regal

> once upon a time That's the important point. That one upon a time was invented 23 years ago. It was the wrong model but it took ~15 years to figure out that. The problem with "beginner mode" is who decides what goes in it? You want what you had 10-15 years ago. Why is that the right level? Maybe it should support 1000 lights instead of 4? But that would require using deferred rendering under the hood. Maybe it should support shadows, oh but which kind as their are 10-15 techniques for shadows each with their own tradeoffs. Maybe you want it to support normal maps, or opacity maps, or specular maps, or glow maps. Maybe it should use physics based lighting because that's far easier for artists. That's the reason all of that cruft was pulled out. OpenGL is no longer a 3D library. It's a 3D rasterization library. You build a 3D library on t

Maybe you could port your GLES1 to a compat layer like http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/06/i-have-ported-xscreensaver-t... https://code.google.com/p/gles2-bc/ https://github.com/p3/regal http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/177233/Indepth_Bringing_R... Depending on how difficult it is. Might be an interesting way to bring codebases that target OpenGL ES 1 onto WebGL