wimpdoom - Shoot with your eyes closed

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cce
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wimpdoom - Shoot with your eyes closed

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This is an eye detector and a ZDoom mod that restricts your shooting depending on the openness of your eyes in a webcam image.

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The eye detector software pointed at an image of Jason Lewis.

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Game screen when the left eye is closed. Image is darkened on the respective side like this, though a bit less in the release version.

I had an idea of a mod where you would play as someone who's really afraid of shooting, so you could only shoot with your both eyes closed. This implementation kinda works, but i still I consider it a bit of a failed experiment since the eye detector isn't very good.

Instructions
  • Download wimpdoom_r1.zip (3.9 MB)
  • Bind the eye signaling keys (the eye detector presses these down when an eye is closed) in ZDoom. (bind b +user1 and bind n +user2)
  • Run eyedetect.exe that opens up a window where you can see your face and some visual markers showing where it thinks you eyes are. Now keys are getting pressed if you blink your eyes.
  • Start ZDoom with the bundled wimp.pk3 as a PWAD.
Requirements
  • A webcam
  • Proper lighting so the program can see your face
  • A modern Windows operating system
Source code and technical documentation are available at Bitbucket.

I would love to hear if you get this working! :P
Par9000
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Re: wimpdoom - Shoot with your eyes closed

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Phehe! Could it work with Zandronum? :D
cce
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Re: wimpdoom - Shoot with your eyes closed

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Par9000 wrote:Phehe! Could it work with Zandronum? :D
Yeah sure the PK3 might even work as is, or at least with minimal porting effort. The eyedetector just sends key up & down events so it's engine agnostic.
Gez
 
 
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Re: wimpdoom - Shoot with your eyes closed

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The idea is an interesting curiosity if nothing else. :)
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This gives me an idea for a mod where a monster gets enraged by the player actually looking at it. If it looks at the screen you have to close both eyes or it attacks - maybe an extension could get microphone input and make monster sensitive to sound.
Would be cool but rather gimmicky
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Re: wimpdoom - Shoot with your eyes closed

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Haha, you should make the hud face close it's eyes when you do.
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