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Wow this is awesome, thanks for sharing. I worry about supplying the .WADs for textures. Quake and Half-Life are both open source now but I'm not sure if their resources files are.

I'm not a lawyer, but this is my philosophy on why I continue to run https://noclip.website like I do.

https://twitter.com/JasperRLZ/status/1100819780691357696

Thanks for sharing, this is immensely cool! Just shared with some colleagues!

How do you get started deciphering the object data from an unknown format stored as binary? I've tried to extract data from ps1 games but have no idea where to begin.

Their resources files are specifically not part of the open source releases.

https://github.com/id-Software/Quake/blob/master/readme.txt

This is super impressive. How do the animations and effects work? This can't just all be static data, but game code too?

Depends on the game. Nintendo stores most of their animation and particle effect data in a mostly declarative format which I've reverse engineered and reimplemented in TypeScript.

For instance, the particle engine is here https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website/blob/master/src/Co...

Jesus Christ, a 5000 LOCs reverse engineered from what is probably a binary file format. I admire that level of dedication, must have been a huge amount of work.

I love this, thank you. Sadly you have to hold the mouse button while moving the camera around but it's still amazing.

Thanks for the suggestion. If you refresh, open the DevTools console with F12, and type `main.viewer.inputManager.releaseOnMouseUp = false`, the grab will stick until you press Escape now.

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