bspView

[kren.Z]

bspView
rendering quake 2 BSP maps in the browser.

krenz.tastyspleen.net/bsp/

Controls:
W - move forward
S - move backward
A - strafe left
D - strafe right
Cursor: click and drag to move viewport
-if some maps don't seem like they load then move the cursor. Some maps seem to offset the camera origin.




NOTE: This software utilizes the webGL 3D Graphics API so you'll need a fairly modern browser with webGL supported. I recommend either the Google Chrome Developer or Google Canary Builds.




-I'm only supporting maps from /baseq2 for now but I'll have xatrix, ra2, tourney.. etc soon.
-you'll notice there's files other than native bsp files in the drop down box, this is due to my faulty regular expressions [Do not click these]
-I can't test all 4,000 maps, so If you come across one that doesn't work post about it here. (developer console in the works...)


-krenZ

[fdrjk]

Arg don't have webGL. But it still sounds cool:P

[quadz]

bspView
rendering quake 2 BSP maps in the browser.

krenz.tastyspleen.net/bsp/

Nice, man.  I'm getting 60 FPS in Chrome on OS X.

I notice the "q2bsp.js" code doesn't include any author or copyright comments.  Do you know where it originated?

NOTE: This software utilizes the webGL 3D Graphics API so you'll need a fairly modern browser with webGL supported. I recommend either the Google Chrome Developer or Google Canary Builds.

Supposedly FireFox 4 now supports WebGL, too.  (Haven't tried it yet.)

[kren.Z]

yeah it was written by this brilliant guy, brandon jones - http://blog.tojicode.com. Another demigod of graphics programming. I came across his site while learning about some webGL stuff. Writing shaders is one thing, but parseing and compiling bsp files takes things to a completely different level. I can barely understand id tech 2. Modern game engine developers have to be some of the smartest people on the planet. I now take great solace knowing that I'll never be on the level of carmack and co.


Anyways, just going to be developing my javascript skills, waiting for a stable release of flash player 11 so I can port the code.  got any background on the dm2 file format? I want to try and do something cool and  I don't want to resort wading through the quake 2 source because c++ makes my brain hurt.


By the way, what do you think of WebGL?




EDIT: LOL sorry for the long delay, had to run errands...

[yahoo]

very nice. GJ!   

[quadz]

yeah it was written by this brilliant guy, brandon jones - http://blog.tojicode.com. Another demigod of graphics programming. I came across his site while learning about some webGL stuff.

I'm having trouble locating his project page for the q2bsp code.

Do you have a link handy?

So far I've only found his glmatrix library.

Writing shaders is one thing, but parseing and compiling bsp files takes things to a completely different level.

Since you're a math enthusiast, you'd certainly have no trouble grasping the concept of binary space partitioning in N dimensions, and the polygon-plane intersection test used in the 3 dimensional case.

All the rest is implementation detais.   

By the way, what do you think of WebGL?

I think it's long overdue.  Of course, we'll see if Microsoft ever supports it in Internet Exploder.

[reaper]

Didn't work in when I downloaded "minefield" 4.2a1pre from the Firefox nightly build page linked of your error message.