A Garry's Mod player has hacked Kinect to be compatible with the popular HL2 mod, Garry's Mod.
A Garry's Mod fan has released a mod that allows Microsoft's motion-tracking camera for the Xbox 360, Kinect, to work with popular Half-Life 2 sandbox game,
Garry's Mod.
The mod lets users directly put their on-camera movements into the game, manipulating complex environments and ragdolls in a way that matches their own movements.
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I thought it'd be neat to get Kinect data into a game engine that supported physics so I could interact with objects in a virtual world,' said Garry's Mod fan John B. '
I chose Garry's Mod for Valve's Source engine because it can be easily scripted using Lua.'
The titular Garry, mod-creator Garry Newman, has since said on
his blog that he would love to integrate the mod into the official Garry's Mod release at some point.
You can read more about the mod on
Yelp, but we also recommend checking out the video below to see Kinect in action via Garry's Mod.
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Discuss in the forums Reply(Will Kinect now come with that warning the virtual reality headsets used to come with like "Don't use at the edge of cliff and don't run with scissors!")
(His dancing is a bit wonky mind you, but he's a genius so we'll let that pass...). :)
give it a little while and that will change. I can't imagine a new iteration of the code is very far off and I'm sure there are plenty of ways they will find to optimize it. This is definitely an awesome idea