Animate Quake2 Characters On Your Desktop

Ant points to the new release of amor, called: amorMD2, "Amusing Misuse of Resources -- MD2 edition, which "reads Quake 2 character files and makes them dance around your desktop for your amusement. It will run on any Posix system which has KDE/Qt installed (ie, most Linux distros, BSD's, etc)."

Re:Waylon Jennings. DEAD.

[Gordonjcp]

Fsck me! He's right, y'know!

Still (-1, Offtopic) nevertheless....

Site already down

[strictnein]

No replies yet and the site is already down.

Is that a new record?

Re:Site already down

[pos]

Yeah, it means that people actually tried to visit the site before posting.

That's definitly a record.
-pos

next steps

[yawnmoth]

i suppose the next step will be to make the dancing be interactive? before you know it, we'll have a game on our hands!

Re:next steps

[ThatComputerGuy]

Perhaps eventually we'll be able to position our mouse pointer over them and click, to simulate some sort of gunfire when you want them out of your way!

Oh, wait..

I don't think this was a good idea.

[gpinzone]

Now when I try to delete files, they fight back! Damn, now I gotta practice my railgun skillz.

Re:I don't think this was a good idea.

[Steveftoth]

What about the version of doom that represented processes as enemys? Kill a marine and emacs dies! Kill the Baron and init dies!

Re:I don't think this was a good idea.

[photon_chac]

en.. it'll be a problem when your init dies. It's not a boss , it's your lord.

Now if they can get Lara Croft...

[night_flyer]

...to do a lap dance Ill be set!

Re:Now if they can get Lara Croft...

[cornflux]

Did you mean laptop dance?

Yuk, yuk, yuk... :)

Re:Now if they can get Lara Croft...

[colindb]

Of course, you can't be Quake II's crackwhore [planetquake.com] model. I will definately have to give that a try when I get home this evening. :)

Colin
leet translations [orifice.org] served with a smile

/. Already

[rootmonkey]

Here is [google.com] cached google page.

Also

[rootmonkey]

Also here [freshmeat.net]

what *kind* of dancing?

[Em Emalb]

Is it the 5th grade dance hall shuffle you did? Or is it the sexy-stripper-on-a-pole-get-your-$20-out style?

Geeks wanna know!

Re:what *kind* of dancing?

[FauxPasIII]

> Or is it the sexy-stripper-on-a-pole-get-your-$20-out style?

Dude, you pay $20 for a pole dance? I think the strip clubs must have you on a special list.

Win Port?

[FortKnox]

Seeing as I'd have the most fun having these guys dance around while I'm at work, I must ask when a possible WinPort is available (I can't change my work OS, so don't bother asking why)? I'd read the site, but it got bombed in like 2 seconds of the posting.

Also, isn't Q2 a touch old now? Do people make skins and stuff for Q2 anymore?

Re:Win Port?

[smak]

Also, isn't Q2 a touch old now?

Certainly not. Q2 still has a fairly large community, including competitions, leagues, mods and all sorts. I have a medically certified addiction to q2, so i should know :)

see http://www.savageuniverse.com for more.

Re:Win Port?

[Bender Unit 22]

Also, isn't Q2 a touch old now? Do people make skins and stuff for Q2 anymore?

Sure they do, I have been playing Q2 for an hour today wearing nothing but a thong and a small bra, blasting people with my rocked launcher.

I guess I should mention that the clothing I am reffering to IS the Q2 skin. :-)

Re:Win Port?

[Juggle]

Well of course it's the clothing of your skin...

Everyone knows Q2 is best when played completely naked.

Re:Win Port?

[jfaulken]

What you REALLY need is for someone to extend the existing Agents API that's used for Office Assistants. I'd be a lot happier looking at the little bastards if they looked like Lara Croft. :)

Re:Win Port?

[npietraniec]

Do people make skins and stuff for Q2 anymore?

They don't need to, because every possible skin you can think of has already been made. I remember downloading over a gig of skins once a few years ago, and I didn't even scratch the surface...

Yep, da ol Slashdottin'

[Craka]

The Files are Here [freshmeat.net] if you'd like them.

Bad Kitty.

[jacks0n]

I have visions of "Neko" with a railgun....

I am not amused.

no thanks

[asv108]

I will stick with my girlfriend [virtuagirl.com] for Valentine's day.

Re:no thanks

[Rob Kaper]

I couldn't resist checking, but the free download (demo?) installs and runs under Wine.. it definitely doesn't look perfect, but hey, it's better than not having a girlfriend at all. ;-)

The AMOR project's URL...

[ThomasMis]

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~mjones/amor/index. html [powerup.com.au]

Sheep

[Anonymous Coward]

Any chance they would shoot the sheep which are runing around my desktop at the moment ?

Re:It's the better alternative

[jweatherley]

Surely you want the Quake 2 characters and Clippy on the desktop at the same time? Let the Q2 mothers tear that paperclip to pieces!

Now, where can I get a Quake2 MSOfficeAssistant?

[immanis]

"It looks like you're trying to frag someone."

Re:Now, where can I get a Quake2 MSOfficeAssistant

[sean23007]

just about as soon as you can get the MSOfficeAssistant on KDE. As far as I know, Microsoft still hasn't released Office for Linux, though I could be wrong.

Re:Now, where can I get a Quake2 MSOfficeAssistant

[SilentChris]

"Would you like help in fragging someone?

0 Railgun
0 Rocket Launcher
0 Shotgun
0 Please tell me how to turn this feature off"

Freshmeat Link

[Multiple Sanchez]

I don't know where the project's homepage has disappeared to, but here's amorMD2's home on Freshmeat. [freshmeat.net]

Re:MD2?

[ZaMoose]

MD2 is the Quake2 model format.

Re:MD2?

[Juggle]

Nahhh, but miss that afternoon dose and watch out!

Nude models?

[RESPAWN]

Well, I guess it will finally be time to go out and download those nude models that my friends were talking about. This certainly is incentive enough for me. =P

-- Posting without karma bonus due to the relative lewdness of my comment

clippy replacement?

[4im]

Sounds like a fun replacement for #$%^& clippy (for those unlucky guys that still have to deal with M$ and don't even get to choose _not_ to have that productivity killer installed)

Re:clippy replacement?

[Andrewkov]

Actually, that's a cool idea .. All the "themes" of clippy (the dog, einstien, etc) are all annoyingly stupid. Quake monsters or stripping girls would be much better!! I might even leave it turned on instead of disabling it!

The Down Side

[DeadBugs]

I remember playing Quake2 online against a friend of mine and he was using a skin called "Crack Whore" not something I want to see dancing on my screen.

Re:The Down Side

[pizen]

Crack Whore was one of the funniest Q2 skins. I know some guys who had fun making screenshots combining the positions Crack Whore died in with the taunts of other models. Wow, work is boring today.

Link on apps.kde.com

[Karma Sucks]

Yeah, I saw this one. Definitely a keeper. Since the site is down, check out the apps.kde.com info [kde.com] page. It has screenshots and all.

BwaDOOM! Take that Stupid AOL Icons...

[WyldOne]

Now if they would only go after the other annoying bits in my computer...

Re:BwaDOOM! Take that Stupid AOL Icons...

[WyldOne]

Yeah, but lots of degrees in Hell(tm) ;)

Virtual Pets?

[shymog]

Ooo. Dancing Q2 models. Soon we'll have to feed them, play with them, punish them, and clean up their little piles of crap, or they'll revolt and take over the desktop.

Re:Virtual Pets?

[matrix29]

Ooo. Dancing Q2 models. Soon we'll have to feed them, play with them, punish them, and clean up their little piles of crap, or they'll revolt and take over the desktop.

Dread the thought of a crap-firing railgun now before it becomes reality.

drinkin'?

[spottedkangaroo]

So I'm thinkin' most of the /. crew went drinkin' to celebrate cmdrtaco's new news?

Cuz the articles got pretty thin after that... and this was ... well, thinest yet. :)

Mac OS X?

[jaysones]

Can this be easily ported to Mac OS X? I have no idea about the technical aspects of that, but I see it will run on BSDs, and, from what I understand, Mac OS X is a relative of those.

No. Quartz/Aqua != X11

[yerricde]

Can this be easily ported to Mac OS X? I have no idea about the technical aspects of that, but I see it will run on BSDs

No. Mac OS X and FreeBSD use completely different GUI architectures. Mac OS X uses Quartz/Aqua, whereas FreeBSD uses X11/KDE. Unless you can get rootless X on top of Aqua and you can make amor md2 run in rootless X, the answer is no.

Yes!

[megaduck]

Unless you can get rootless X on top of Aqua and you can make amor md2 run in rootless X, the answer is no.

True, but you can run rootless X alongside Aqua and they coexist quite peacefully. Heck, I'm doing it right now. I don't know about porting amor md2, but since OS X is an honest-to-god BSD it shouldn't be that hard. One of OS X's big selling points is the easy porting of *nix software.

If you're interested in running X11 apps on OS X, check out the XDarwin project [xdarwin.org]. Here's some screenshots [xdarwin.org]. Very cool stuff.

Perfomance Cost

[Packet Fish]

Lets see, i can lose cpu performance to make things dance on my desktop with this thing...

or i can lose brain perfomance by maken 'em dance the ol' fashioned way... ;-)

It doesn't work for me...

[npietraniec]

I get half of a model... The right half is invisible, chopped right down the center.

bummer... Is there a bugzilla.amorMD2.org?

Re:It doesn't work for me...

[robottwo]

Doh!

I am using an ATI Radeon for development. Can you send me some information about your hardware and config? [e-mail]

Re:It doesn't work for me...

[KodaK]

Obviously, I'm not the parent poster, but I get the same thing if I try the RPM install.

HW: Duron 800 w/ 512MB, Geforce2MX (latest
drivers) Mandrake 8.1.

I installed from source and when I tried to run all I got was a dialog "Unable to open homerrc" or something like that.

I'm *supposed* to be putting together my girlfriends Valentines day present, when I'm done I'll delve into the source and let you know if I can figure anything else. I'll also hunt down your email address so I don't have to post to /. more than I have to. :)

Sorry Guys

[robottwo]

Sorry guys, I was playing around with my Apache config -- believe it or not, the site going down for a few minutes had nothing to do with slashdot (actually, I didn't know it was posted there until a few minutes ago).

This Ant guy has been running around the web posting amorMD2 to every software index site around. Thanks, I think ;)

Here goes my Karma

[Razzious]

But Dammit the joke is worth it...

Can anyone post a Mirror of this in a WINDOWS version?

/duck

Re:Here goes my Karma

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, I can't get to the site right now, But I'd be fairly sure that you can compile it under cygwin and XFree.

For those who don't know, cygwin [cygwin.com] is an adaptation layer for POSIX programs to run under windows. And XFree [cygwin.com] has already been ported.

Most apps compile reasonably easily. I use window maker as my wm for example.

This would be cool if..

[RatBastard]

it was a closed-source Windows program! *rimshot*

Really. I'd like to see something like this for Windows (yeah, I'm a heathen, deal with it).

...sorta On Topic

[SubtleNuance]

Have a look at this guy:

Home Simpson Doll [crosswinds.net]

and the linux SW to run it [linuxhost.cc]!

Now, THATS cool.

Perhaps, some day...

[ColGraff]

These characters could be integrated into a fully 3-d environment, and used as monsters in a game. The player would navigate this environment from a "first-person" perspective, and try to shoot the monsters. Who's with me on this?

Rail Clippy!

[eimaj]

Hrm, if this is a Qt app, it should be easy to port to Windows, then you could have your Q2 character fire a rail slug through Clippy whenever he pops up!

Re:Rail Clippy!

[BlastQuake]

Can someone indeed port this to Windows? Stuck with win98se for my gaming, and although I never see clippy (never use office), would be great to have another timewaster on the screen while I'm playing Diablo2 or mudding :).

Kick the purple monkeys ASS . ..

[jgaynor]

Forget all your problems with clippy -

someone should port this to win32 with a plugin that lets it fsck up the purple monkey. I know quite a few NetAdmins who would pay to be rid of that damn thing.