How to mod a Porsche 911 to run Doom [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRMpNA86e8Q

by mromnia • 9 years ago

101 31 9 years ago

JetSpiegel• 9 years ago

This sits right at the intersection of insane and awesome.

Note the WASD controls are replaced by the throttle, brakes and steering wheel. The horn is for shooting the gun, and the gearbox controls the currently selected gun.

sgt3• 9 years ago

I tried that, and kept crashing. Someone told me I should update the driver.

gs73• 9 years ago

Plagiarizing a 2 month old Youtube comment, really?

sgt3• 9 years ago

Not sure what comment you're referring to?

forvelin• 9 years ago

Seems great, but has anyone tried to run Doom on a Tesla yet ?

sogjis• 9 years ago

Looks fake to me. This part: https://youtu.be/NRMpNA86e8Q?t=169

lubomir• 9 years ago

This is mentioned in the comments on youtube as well. The reply from author is "That's because there was a half-second near the end in my driveway where the thinning of my hair was much more visible than I was comfortable with, so I edited that part out."

ido• 9 years ago

more generously, you can say it was a joke :)

Notice that he has a toaster in the car too (running doom on your toaster is another common joke).

joeyspn• 9 years ago

He didn't bother to do the extra work required (in After Effects) to progressively superpose the seat over the screen in a credible manner. Video edition is much more time consuming when moving objects get in front of the faked screen.

He's probably using basic Mocha for AE tracking... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaH9YHY4aEo

throwaway2016a4• 9 years ago

I feel like Occam's razor applies here in a non-intuitive way.

Either he:

1. Recorded a video of him driving a car and frantically pressing the horn

2. Made a screen capture of Doom that matches the gun fire, turns, and weapon changes perfectly to his car video

3. Did some video editing to superimpose the video including several cases where his thumb goes over the screen while shifting

Or....

1. He put software on the car console (which is pretty much a full computer)

2. He actually mapped the controls to data being read from the onboard computer

I mean, I couldn't do this... one I don't know how to write software for a Porsche console and two I can't afford a Porsche :-P but faking it seems like way more work and worse ROI than actually doing it.

Edit: alternatively in some cars the console actually takes RGB or HDMI input and you don't even need to run directly on the console assuming ODB-II has enough info to read the input signals. I can totally see myself doing this if I had the time. Seems fun (albeit a bit dangerous for my taste)

Edit 2: It could still be a fake but it's not unreasonable to think it isn't.

bshimmin• 9 years ago

Honestly, if you've watched people who are actually good with After Effects, this isn't really all that much work. And see, look how clever After Effects is: https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/after-effects/how-to/rigid-mask-t...

w458cmau• 9 years ago

If you follow along at 0.25 speed one can tell that the screen is moving slightly in a non-linear fashion while the car is just beginning to move. Also the screen mysteriously does not experience any motion blur, though the rest of the car does.

http://imgur.com/P49KsjB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRMpNA86e8Q&feature=youtu.be...

Screen is certainly superimposed. That's why the cut is there, he did not want to put in the work to overlay the headrest of the seat.

ghughu• 9 years ago

    This is how it ends;            
    not with a whisper             
    but with a geek running Doom on a Doomsday machine.

TeMPOraL• 9 years ago

  Somebody had to, no one would
  I tried to do the best I could
  And now it’s done, and now they can’t ignore us...

Gravityloss• 9 years ago

You could likely run Doom on a sniper scope. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/bullseye-from-1000-y...

fredley• 9 years ago

If anyone's wondering why the toaster is there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI7tWd7B3iI

throwaway2016a4• 9 years ago

Edit: I was actually being serious. I guess I'm more gullible today than usual. Now that I re-watch it and read the comments it is very clearly a joke.

mbilker• 9 years ago

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not, but the toaster video is mostly a joke.

kowdermeister• 9 years ago

It's fake too. The cmd party makes it pretty obvious.

agumonkey• 9 years ago

VROOM II

lloeki• 9 years ago

Vroom is in fact a 1991 game on the Atari ST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxA8yEBfODg

xxxhjb• 9 years ago

Reminds me of this thing that was released/first shown at the "Revision" demoparty two weeks ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ6LvHBWGio

savrajsingh• 9 years ago

What os?

rodrigo-mx• 9 years ago

It becomes so real that you can die in real life too

fosco• 9 years ago

at the risk of embarrassment, what is the amazing music riff at the end? no I'm not kidding, those are amazing tunes.

gt2• 9 years ago

No need to be embarassed, Doom had great music by Bobby Prince.

Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cixW6rogZ48&feature=youtu.be...

If you like that, then you might like Quake's soundtrack by Trent Reznor of NIN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVOHTGYoM6E Quake's is less chiptune and more real.

How to mod a Porsche 911 to run Doom [video]

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