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Canvascape - "3D Walker"

19 points by matt1 17y ago

cousin_it 17y ago
Hello, let me tell you a secret. The only reason Flash doesn't yet have awesome-looking first person shooters is the inability to implement mouselook properly. In all FPS games the mouse cursor is locked to the center of the screen, so you can turn left by any amount by just moving the mouse left, without worrying that it will hit the screen's edge or leave the active area. Flash can't do that. Neither can HTML, as far as I know. So don't get your hopes high for first-person shooters using Canvas.
- arketyp 17y ago
  I'm not going to bother questioning it, but that's to me the silliest reason imaginable.
- adriand 17y ago
  That's interesting, because it's true, this is a huge problem. Reminds me of a Flash game my son was playing the other day and when he would inadvertently move the mouse cursor out of the play area, the entire game would freeze and it would say in big letters, "Move the mouse back to this area." A good FPS has to be immersive, and that means full-screen, mouse-look, no browser chrome. So we have a ways to go still. But this is still a very cool demo of canvas.
- est 17y ago
  > without worrying that it will hit the screen's edge or leave the active area. Flash can't do that If Flash didn't provide a mechanism to lock cursors, how about fullscreen?
  - cousin_it 17y ago
    In fullscreen the cursor can still hit the edge of the screen and stop. Kinda breaks the immersion when you're trying to turn left quickly to shoot a baddie and suddenly can't turn anymore.
sswam 17y ago
I'm impressed, it's not far from implementing Doom in javascript :)
- chaosmachine 17y ago
  This demo dates back to 2005. And here's something from 2006 that's a little more doomish: http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/83/play.xhtml http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/83/play.xhtml These days, people are working on Quake 2 with WebGL: http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/ http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/
baddox 17y ago
Strange that you can jump while moving OR turning, but not when moving AND turning.

19 points by matt1 17y ago

Hello, let me tell you a secret. The only reason Flash doesn't yet have awesome-looking first person shooters is the inability to implement mouselook properly. In all FPS games the mouse cursor is locked to the center of the screen, so you can turn left by any amount by just moving the mouse left, without worrying that it will hit the screen's edge or leave the active area. Flash can't do that. Neither can HTML, as far as I know. So don't get your hopes high for first-person shooters using Canvas.

arketyp 17y ago
I'm not going to bother questioning it, but that's to me the silliest reason imaginable.
adriand 17y ago
That's interesting, because it's true, this is a huge problem. Reminds me of a Flash game my son was playing the other day and when he would inadvertently move the mouse cursor out of the play area, the entire game would freeze and it would say in big letters, "Move the mouse back to this area." A good FPS has to be immersive, and that means full-screen, mouse-look, no browser chrome. So we have a ways to go still. But this is still a very cool demo of canvas.
est 17y ago
> without worrying that it will hit the screen's edge or leave the active area. Flash can't do that If Flash didn't provide a mechanism to lock cursors, how about fullscreen?
- cousin_it 17y ago
  In fullscreen the cursor can still hit the edge of the screen and stop. Kinda breaks the immersion when you're trying to turn left quickly to shoot a baddie and suddenly can't turn anymore.

sswam 17y ago

I'm impressed, it's not far from implementing Doom in javascript :)

chaosmachine 17y ago
This demo dates back to 2005. And here's something from 2006 that's a little more doomish: http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/83/play.xhtml http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/83/play.xhtml These days, people are working on Quake 2 with WebGL: http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/ http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/

baddox 17y ago

Strange that you can jump while moving OR turning, but not when moving AND turning.