ovenchips
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Comment · 2 months ago
This port was intended to be as faithful as possible to the original WinQuake version. It was developed by Codex using Sol set to High. The /goal command was used and the LLM was left to run for 3 days before it was interrupted. The LLM used the PlayCanvas Engine for the renderer.
I steered the LLM on a number of occasions to address some bugs I noticed during play testing. Otherwise, it was completely autonomous. Nearly 500 automated tests were developed as part of the process. Chocolate Quake was used for visual references and pixel comparisons were made to achieve as faithful a rendering as possible.
Source is here:
https://github.com/willeastcott/playcanvas-quake
Comment · 3 months ago
One other little easter egg you may not have noticed. There's an American flag gently fluttering in the breeze on top of a nearby building. We were discussing whether to adds some birds as well, but that never made the final cut. You ask about factoring lighting away from the scene - actually, PlayCanvas can already do relighting and shadow-casting for gaussian splat-based scenes:
https://playcanvas.com/examples/#/gaussian-splatting/relight...
Some kind of day/night toggle would have been another great feature...but again, it didn't make the final cut of the experience. Maybe a HD Remix is needed. :o)
Comment · 3 months ago
Yes, the cars are separated out and procedurally animated. They're splats, like the rest of the scene. Easily done in PlayCanvas - simple but effective!
Comment · 3 months ago
Yes. They're Gaussian splats like the rest of the scene. PlayCanvas has a global sort so they render correctly regardless of camera angle.
Comment · 5 months ago
For anybody interested, SuperSplat (and PlayCanvas) is open sourced on GitHub:
https://github.com/playcanvas
Comment · 5 months ago
I completely agree with you. I'm constantly bowled over by the creativity of the SuperSplat/PlayCanvas communities.
Comment · 5 months ago
I built PlayCanvas in 2011 to power video games. Here we are in 2026 and it's powering strawberries.