Turbulenz WebGL Engine using Quake 4 assets

This is a video of the Turbulenz Engine First Person Shooter demo using assets from the game Quake 4 developed by Raven Software and id Software.

In this video I move around the level showcasing some of the features of the original game supported by the engine: huge number of dynamic lights and shadows, high quality animated skinned characters, particle systems with multiple stages, 2D GUIs and animations mapped onto 3D objects, and a great variety of materials and shading effects.

During the video I also demonstrate how the engine can be manipulated in real time via the JavaScript console. We are able to debug the application and interact with the rendering logic.

The demo requires WebGL for the graphics and Web Audio or HTML5 Audio for the sound effects. The Engine and demo was fully written in JavaScript and we implemented our own 3D physics and collisions system on top of a portal-based scene manager.

This demo was first shown at WebGL Camp Europe 2012 together with two games developed using the Turbulenz Engine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2C5go...

To try the games go to https://turbulenz.com/

For more information about Turbulenz and the SDK go to http://biz.turbulenz.com/

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[Eduard Gotwig]

Btw, I want to note that AS OF TODAY, THE TURBULENZ GAME ENGINE IS COMPLETLY OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE released under the MIT license!

[Ethan Jones]

*continues learning javascript*

Seriously though, absolutely incredible! Especially as it was done with just web technologies.

[Kiracastle]

whoah. Tutorial? :P

[Ed Parker]

Amazed at the possibilities!!

[ianGAMEFAN]

Nice job, guys.

[David Galeano]

"If something like this comes to true"?

It is already true, you can play the games on our website with any browser supporting WebGL, and we are not the only ones.

[couragecrd]

Future? If u hate personal computers then yes.

If something like this comes to true, then Clouds service will destroy personal computers on market, as everywhere.

[bazmail]

Not really. The browsers javascript interpreter is just telling a modified version of OpenGL (a mature non web technology) what to show, instead of a desktop executable telling OpenGL what to do. Its the same old tech, the instructions it is being fed just come from a different source.

[DavidTheCatMedia]

It's not that preposterous really. Modern OpenGL is designed to allow almost all the real work to happen purely in the driver and on the GPU.

[DavidTheCatMedia]

Very impressive tech!

[nikkicanada69]

view source! haha.

[roboman2444]

id does deserve credit for the concept and quake 2, though.