WebGL Grand Theft Auto

http://experiments.hertzen.com/webgl-gta/

by nthitz • 14 years ago

62 33 14 years ago

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friggeri2• 14 years ago

Using the latest Chrome dev (20.0.1123.1 dev, OSX 10.7.3), I've been stuck on a black screen for the past 15 minutes. I do see the number of FPS and there are some x/y/z values which change in the top right when I press the arrows on my keyboard. Rendering issue ?

vladev• 14 years ago

Exactly the same on Firefox 12 and Chromium 18.

jdub• 14 years ago

It loaded for me after a while. Ran around a bit. It's a cute demo / experiment.

azakai• 14 years ago

Works fine here, FF15 on Ubuntu w/NVidia, 60fps.

untog• 14 years ago

It worked for me after I clicked the screen, not sure why.

It's GTA1/2 rather than GTA3, if anyone was curious. Still cool, but slightly less impressive.

niklasvh5• 14 years ago

What kind of graphics card you got?

friggeri2• 14 years ago

Integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB (note that your demo does work here with the latest Firefox Aurora)

calloc• 14 years ago

Chrome on OS X 10.6.8, worked with no issues after giving it a minute or two.

Selfcommit• 14 years ago

Played for 10min, couldn't find 1 car to jack.

Disappointment level = Huge.

(Seriously Very cool WebGL stuff going on though!)

niklasvh5• 14 years ago

There are 3 cars, none of them stealable though :(

dysoco• 14 years ago

This is just a demo, an AMAZING demo, where you expecting a completly playable game ?

OK: I also was, but I was not dissapointed, mainly because it's OpenSource, it'll become a complete game soon.

potatolicious• 14 years ago

> "mainly because it's OpenSource, it'll become a complete game soon"

You must be new to open source game projects...

spuz• 14 years ago

On Ubuntu 11.10 and Chrome 18.0.1025.168, this just completely killed the OS. As soon as the tab loaded, the mouse froze and the display stopped updating. I couldn't even enter a separate TTY session (ctrl-alt-F6 for example). At least this has apparently exposed a big security issue in the browser.

runeks• 14 years ago

What video card do you have, and what driver are you using for this video card?

BonsaiDen• 14 years ago

Works well here on 10.04 with a Nvidia GT530 (propr. drivers)

TazeTSchnitzel2• 14 years ago

It's not really a browser security issue. It's just that Linux graphics drivers suck horribly, and so they create security issues and crashes everywhere.

gcp• 14 years ago

Chrome and Firefox already wrap all WebGL calls through ANGLE to avoid real exploits. Of course the driver being retarded enough to lock up is not something that can prevent.

DanI-S2• 14 years ago

I've been playing with WebGL via the THREE.js[1] library and I'm really gobsmacked. It's relatively easy, and a lot of fun to play with.

I've noticed that a lot of the demos people have created so far are rendering a simple scene, or trying to build a game engine. I'm looking forward to more people building user interfaces that make use of 3D for data visualization and user interaction. 3D has literally never been so accessible.

[1] https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/

darien• 14 years ago

The 3D Globe WebGL library created by google is an awesome example of data visualization. With the blessing of the reddit folks, I populated some Google Analytics data into it. http://www.webgl.com/2012/03/webgl-globe-visualization-reddi...

DanI-S2• 14 years ago

That's very impressive, and I'm going to be playing with that globe this evening :)

talmand2• 14 years ago

Another aspect that makes WebGL projects like this even more useful is that you can right-click and save what you are currently seeing as an image.

xxbondsxx• 14 years ago

Three.js is great, but sometimes the performance isn't quite there for large sets of data. When I made this 3D Facebook connection plotter:

http://petercottle.com/friendMapper2/

I had to switch to barebones WebGL with GPU picking to get the right performance. It would be interesting if someone made a pure data-vis library for WebGL. Like d3.js + a webgl plotter

notjustanymike• 14 years ago

Grand Theft Walking Around A Bit

Rudism• 14 years ago

I still remember using NCSA Mosaic on my Mac Classic to browse the web in the '90s. Back then there were two ways to lay out your website: tables, or no layout at all. All I'm saying is, we've come a long way.

nixle• 14 years ago

How do I get into CAR??

niklasvh5• 14 years ago

You can't

prophetjohn• 14 years ago

Works fine in OS X Lion and Chrome. There are some bugs, though. For instance if I walk off a ledge into the ocean, I just keep walking in mid-air suspended above the ocean. Pretty cool either way.

kelnage• 14 years ago

As it happens, this bug was somewhat in the original version of GTA. Whilst walking over water would kill you, if you tapped the jump button, you'd never fall.

This could allow you to reach areas otherwise impossible to reach - just find a high enough building, run off the edge and tap jump until you reach your desired location!

niklasvh5• 14 years ago

There is no physics implemented on the z-axis yet.

WebGL Grand Theft Auto

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