How to Move Doom Characters in WebGL in 50 lines of JS

http://learningthreejs.com/blog/2012/05/04/tquery-md2character-a-plugin-for-doom-characters/

by jerome_etienne • 14 years ago

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fmstephe2• 14 years ago

Oh man, every time we see this kind of thing it makes life that much harder. :)

How can we not suffer with only 24 hours in the day. We have children and jobs and projects already under way. Every week we seem to have something so exciting land in our laps that it is hard to sit still.

Roll on the future.

It was a little disappointing to see frames drop to 35ps on fullscreen (my colleague got the full 60fps). But it can only get better and faster from here.

darien• 14 years ago

If you want something that will really blow your mind, check out the webgl demo of Cube 2: Sauerbraten (a Quake clone).

It's by far the most advanced WebGL FPS shooter I've seen so far - http://www.webgl.com/2012/05/webgl-game-cube-2-sauerbraten/

mike-cardwell• 14 years ago

Mind blown. It's time to learn how to use WebGL.

laumars• 14 years ago

Words cannot describe how epic that is

jaredsohn• 14 years ago

The math for calculating the mouse pointer position seems off, even in full screen mode.

sohn• 14 years ago

What the hell, what Doom is that. Maybe I missed it?

aw3c2• 14 years ago

it says Quake2 in the body

thebigshane• 14 years ago

Its not a Doom or Quake2 model/skin but it does use the Quake2 model format (MD2). I think it's just a custom model/skin downloaded from the planetquake site he linked to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD2_%28file_format%29

http://planetquake.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Quake2.Detail&#...

JackC• 14 years ago

This. This is why we can have nice things.

I've been thinking about the old programming saying, "There is no problem that cannot be solved by adding a layer of abstraction, except for having too many layers of abstraction." How many layers is too many? The trends I see are (1) computers keep getting faster; (2) compilers keep getting smarter; and (3) we keep learning how to better design and manage and debug abstraction layers. Which means the number of abstraction layers that is "too many" to solve any given problem is much higher than it used to be. I think a lot of the "check out this neat thing" posts on HN are a product of that -- we can now stand on the shoulders of shoulders of shoulders of shoulders of shoulders of shoulders of shoulders of shoulders of shoulders of giants without things getting too tippy.

What did "var world = tQuery.createWorld().boilerplate().start()" look like back in 1997, when this Quake 2 model was first released? What will it look like in another 15 years?

Whodi• 14 years ago

This is why Unity3D is so much more of a pleasure to work with than Unreal. Playing a new animation on a skinned mesh really can be as simple as Animation.Crossfade(). With a little creative thinking, power and simplicity don't have to be playing tug-of-war, they can actually complement each other.

Impossible• 14 years ago

As opposed to the Unreal equivalent, PlayCustomAnim()? :). There are things that Unity does better than Unreal but animation isn't a great example.

How to Move Doom Characters in WebGL in 50 lines of JS

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