Doom3 Gangnam Style in WebGL

http://apps.playcanvas.com/will/doom3/gangnamstyle

by robhawkes • 14 years ago

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CJefferson• 14 years ago

Ah, I came to make a comment about needing 'in WebGL' adding to the title, and I see it is already there!

Little comment: If like me you try to click on anything in chrome, you will get a message about the page wanting to disable your mouse cursor. I thought that sounded dodgy, but agree. It just means let the app take control of the cursor, so you can use it for changing viewpoint.

dirkk0• 14 years ago

Additionally you can use WASD.

sillysaurus• 14 years ago

Bug report for the author:

This demo tries to capture your mouse cursor, so that you can use the mouse to look around the world. But it's malfunctioning (on Chrome, Win 7 x64).

Synopsis: the first time it loaded, I clicked on the canvas. That popped up a banner at the top of my browser window which said something like "so-and-so website would like to take over your mouse cursor. Allow or deny?" So I tried to click on the allow button, but wound up accidentally clicking a bookmark, which of course navigated me away. So I hit the back button, which reloaded the demo. But now it's not trying to capture my mouse anymore, regardless of what I do.

Just writing that up on the off-chance it's helpful to the author. The itself bug doesn't matter much, though.

Author: fantastic work, fantastic execution.

dexter3132• 14 years ago

You can Walk around with WASD.

drazion• 14 years ago

that's a silly, yet creative, take on using WebGL - bravo

lexy0202• 14 years ago

And suddenly the true purpose of WebGL became clear..

This is pretty awesome, would be better if it was in sync with the music though? It gets out after a bit.

mtgx• 14 years ago

You may be on to something. In the future more artists may choose to make music videos like this or Ro.Me if it's cost-effective enough. Artists have always embedded CGI stuff into their music videos, anyway.

xyproto• 14 years ago

That's amazing.

danvideo• 14 years ago

Very creative and entertaining. I can't stop watching the middle monster.

Something I didn't realize at first was the ability to use the movement keys - seeing different angles is pretty cool. As another comment mentioned, the sync could definitely be tighter, but otherwise well done.

Fletch137• 14 years ago

Very interesting, and very well done.

I also cannot adequately express my thanks for putting a mute button on there.

MayorOfMonkeys2• 14 years ago

It was more for my benefit while I was developing it. ;)

Swannie• 14 years ago

Ditto.

I noticed that Entropia Universe added a gangnam style dance to their in-game emotes last year. And it's been advertised all Winter on UK TV for some console dance game.

I wonder if this is one of the most motion-captured/implemented dance moves/sequences ever? :-)

ph0rcyas• 14 years ago

This is just great. Enjoyed it - posted it on fb and ready to watch it again - then the server is apparently overloading. Wonder what the traffic is like.

daredevildave2• 14 years ago

Now running on a larger instance.

Cloud win! (for the moment...)

daredevildave2• 14 years ago

Here is the CPU: https://twitter.com/daredevildave/status/289029688943321089/...

Turns out a m1.small is much better than an t1.micro :-)

macavity232• 14 years ago

Not only a great idea but also free load testing for the playcanvas.com guys. Their appserver appears to have melted: the CTO's hands are currently a blur on his keyboard!

MayorOfMonkeys2• 14 years ago

We've spun up a new, higher capacity server. Enjoy!!! :)

galaktor• 14 years ago

Seems much better now.

cryodesign2• 14 years ago

Impressive animation - where did you the mocap data from, or all animated by hand?

macavity232• 14 years ago

Yep, working smoothly for me now. Nice work on the speedy redeployment, guys. Puppet FTW!

quaunaut• 14 years ago

aaaaaaaaaaaand back melted

Tyrant505• 14 years ago

Works smooth for me.

mcpoulet• 14 years ago

Last august there was this other WebGL animation with Doom 3 characters : http://alteredqualia.com/three/examples/webgl_animation_skin...

kjackson2012• 14 years ago

I was ready to declare the whole Gangnam Style thing dead-and-buried, but this still made me chuckle. Very nice work!

Tyrannosaurs• 14 years ago

That is just wrong on every level. Utterly brilliant but wrong.

dexter3132• 14 years ago

Shadows are kinda blocky. And some weapons would be nice.

wheaties• 14 years ago

How do you shoot? I want to blow these guys up. Hysterical.

egb• 14 years ago

Well dang, crashed my firefox after loading about 1/3 :-\

Chrome is fine, but firefox is where I keep a bazillion pages open

arikrak• 14 years ago

Warning: May freeze your browser.

base698• 14 years ago

Works on Android for me which is even more impressive.

ChrisClark• 14 years ago

What browser are you using? It doesn't work on Chrome on my Nexus 4.

gingerbreadman• 14 years ago

This is neat! Had to show it to a couple of other people around me, sucks to explain who the characters are though to non-gamers :).

kjhughes• 14 years ago

You realize that you just have to provide a chain gun now, right?

mnml_• 14 years ago

gangnam style overdose

gojomo• 14 years ago

Very nice! (Is there a way to rotate rather than just strafe-move?)

Now if there were a game that reproduced the scenes and people (including Psy) in the actual video -- and let you blow them all to pieces, stopping the music each time a scene is cleared -- that might get another billion plays!

heyitsnick• 14 years ago

> (Is there a way to rotate rather than just strafe-move?)

In chrome i had to explicitly allow canvas to take control of the mouse, then you have full mouse-look.

edit: more info below

agildehaus• 14 years ago

Ah, technology.

Doom3 Gangnam Style in WebGL

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