#virtual-reality | Unreal Source | Page 184

sly elk Jul 23, 2018, 4:44 PM

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Hey, does anyone know if screen space reflections are supposed to work on materials with a roughness map? So far I can only get them to work on materials where the roughness is a constant

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Nevermind, figured it out. Had a console variable that was overriding my post process volume settings

granite jacinth Jul 23, 2018, 5:06 PM

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Man, wrong chat. But I didn't know how much people would partake in our ideas with us being so open with our game's development. I guess this is a common thing. Never noticed it until now.

idle heron Jul 23, 2018, 9:26 PM

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Does anyone know if 4.20 requires iOS 12 beta and XCode 10 beta in order to use ARKit? I'm somehow able to launch an ARKit app using 4.20, Xcode 9 and iOS 11 but it crashes at launch and can't find the reason in the logs.

granite jacinth Jul 23, 2018, 10:44 PM

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@idle heron hm, possible, since windows are forced with VS2017

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Read the patch notes

real needle Jul 24, 2018, 12:24 AM

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@sly elk Why are you doing screen space for VR?

sturdy coral Jul 24, 2018, 7:28 AM

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@@real needle has toggle to 2d too, probably where his console command was coming from

serene rivet Jul 24, 2018, 12:29 PM

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Anyone working with 4.20 AR and worked out how to extract the tracked geo plane details so you could say, scale a Plane actor to the exact same position? I can pin and track to touch points as per HandheldAR template but scale seems to always be returned as (1,1,1)

mighty carbon Jul 24, 2018, 1:46 PM

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hmm... so many comments on 4.20 being a disastrous release :/

jaunty shell Jul 24, 2018, 1:51 PM

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no issues so far 😐

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whats so desastrous about it ?

mighty carbon Jul 24, 2018, 1:54 PM

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no idea.. just seeing posts on the forums here and there about people having bunch of issues

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I am waiting on hotfixes and Oculus updating their branch before I upgrade my project to 4.20

warm lion Jul 24, 2018, 2:26 PM

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anyone know why I can't see line trace on mobile VR (Oculus Go)

mighty carbon Jul 24, 2018, 2:36 PM

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turn off multiview if you are using it

warm lion Jul 24, 2018, 2:53 PM

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It's compiling shaders now - had to restart. Is multi-view a big savings? I feel like it was recommended to be turned on during a getting started tutorial

mighty carbon Jul 24, 2018, 2:54 PM

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multiview is a must in mobile VR

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however, not everything (debug stuff) is rendered when using multiview

warm lion Jul 24, 2018, 2:55 PM

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Ahh. So I need to turn back on when I package test builds

mighty carbon Jul 24, 2018, 2:55 PM

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Print String used to not work with multiview o.O

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right

warm lion Jul 24, 2018, 2:55 PM

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Good to know, thanks!

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Too bad someone hasn't made a marketplace non debug line drawer. I don't have Runtime Mesh Component plugin (it's not working for 4.19)

mighty carbon Jul 24, 2018, 2:57 PM

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that would require deep changes to debug draw rendering code

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Fortnite doesn't run in mobile VR, so it won't happen any time soon 😛

warm lion Jul 24, 2018, 2:58 PM

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haha

mighty carbon Jul 24, 2018, 2:58 PM

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but really, you can test a lot of things in PIE

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and without multiview on Go

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once you sort the core mechanics out, then you won't need to run your project without multiview on the device

warm lion Jul 24, 2018, 2:59 PM

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okay good.

eager pine Jul 24, 2018, 3:08 PM

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dont know if this is the right place to post this, but its in vr, trying to optimize a scene, and this is really bottlenecking it

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is there a way to get a better understanding of what dynamic is?

wicked oak Jul 24, 2018, 3:11 PM

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@eager pine thats just your basepass

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look at shader complexity, and light complexity

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also check "stat rhi" to see if you are on normal polygon/drawcalls

eager pine Jul 24, 2018, 3:12 PM

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well, we have taken consideration to the shader complexity and light complexity

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and we use stat rhi to check drawcalls, but we are at around 1000-2000 now

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level streaming we have, and we have done alot of optimizing, we hit about 70 fps at a 1070 and at a 970 gtx we hit 45

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or with allow interleaved reprojection of at the 970 we hit 65

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off*

wicked oak Jul 24, 2018, 3:28 PM

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whats your resolution?

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PD 1 puts like 1600p wich is fucking brutal

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also MSAA bumps it up a huge amount

eager pine Jul 24, 2018, 3:36 PM

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@wicked oak how can i check that

wicked oak Jul 24, 2018, 4:24 PM

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the project i did for Rebook

glossy agate Jul 24, 2018, 4:26 PM

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Dope, you have video footage of it?

fleet plume Jul 24, 2018, 4:29 PM

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would also love to see it in action

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also the curved screen for viewers is pretty rad

wicked oak Jul 24, 2018, 4:30 PM

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no, no video footage

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its a fairly simple beatsaber style music game, with some twists

glossy agate Jul 24, 2018, 4:31 PM

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Was about to ask that. Saw the red/blue bubbles in the back. Thought it may be an endless runner since it’s rebock

wicked oak Jul 24, 2018, 4:33 PM

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nope, they asked for a music game

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i implemented every feature of every VR music game i could find

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but at the end they decided on a very very simple beatsaber features

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i had stuff like splines you had to follow with the hands and lasers to duck below

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i prototyped all of those on unity

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and then remade the whole thing in ue4

wicked oak Jul 24, 2018, 4:49 PM

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not really that good of an idea the music game

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a ripoff of sprint vector would make so much more sense

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i think its an advert for some sneakers after all

glossy agate Jul 24, 2018, 4:50 PM

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Exactly since they make running shoes haha

mighty carbon Jul 24, 2018, 4:51 PM

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you know what UE4 needs? An easy way to load user-generated content for packaged projects

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(unless there is such a way and I am not aware of it)

wicked oak Jul 24, 2018, 4:52 PM

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doesnt asset manager help precisely with that?

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might also want to look at the modding in current games

glossy agate Jul 24, 2018, 4:52 PM

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Mod support?

mighty carbon Jul 24, 2018, 4:52 PM

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not if end user has to sign up with Epic, install UE4, learn UE4, package an asset and then provide it for someone to use it

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what people should be able to do is to make glTF file, drop it into a folder (or upload it somewhere) and it just pops into the game

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Mod support implies for people to use UE4

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that layer needs to not exist at all

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I am not actually talking about mods. I am talking about skins/models/anims.

glossy agate Jul 24, 2018, 4:56 PM

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Fortnite is so big almost everyone who would be into this already has the launcher probably haha

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And does gitf have the same materials setup as UE4? those would have to be made, and the models with anims would have to be setup in anim_BP, blendspaces ect, so doing it without UE4 would be impossible for now at least

mighty carbon Jul 24, 2018, 5:00 PM

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glTF (from Blender) has exact same material setup as UE4 - export, import and it's done.. No need in tweaking. Still, requires UE4.

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if there was a standalone tool that loads glTF and spits our UE4 asset, that would be awesome.

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but then I don't think UE4 can easy load, in runtime, external assets

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I would be nice if UE4 could load external stuff like Quake 3 and Doom 3 did - a zip file with assets.

wicked oak Jul 24, 2018, 5:09 PM

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thats what a .pak is

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a zip file with uassets

mighty carbon Jul 24, 2018, 5:16 PM

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except to make uassets you need to use UE4

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a lot of people just want to paint a skin in a 2D app or make a model in 3D app and never even bother with UE4

wicked oak Jul 24, 2018, 5:21 PM

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my game uses json for a bunch of things

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instead of curve assets or data assets

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this way everything is easily editable

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you can do that

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its perfectly possible to write a gltf loader that loads a file into a 3d model to use for an object

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gltf to custom mesh is really not that hard

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im confident i could do it on a single day

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bigger issue would be the materials

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they are compiled down shaders. The only way i see it happening is with some kind of master gltf material and then adapting the file to that

mighty carbon Jul 24, 2018, 5:24 PM

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hmm.. I see

wicked oak Jul 24, 2018, 5:26 PM

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wasnt there a google plugin?

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for their model library

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wich was all gltf

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that would be a good starting point

distant lotus Jul 24, 2018, 6:13 PM

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Hey, I'm making an AR app using 4.19. Do you think 4.20 is stable enough to upgrade the project? I'm really interested in implementing the image recognition, has anyone had success with that yet?

mighty carbon Jul 24, 2018, 6:14 PM

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doesn't sound like 4.20 is good for AR (based on the questions people have been asking here and based on the forums' posts)

real needle Jul 24, 2018, 6:18 PM

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@mighty carbon There were plenty of problems in 4.19 as well 🤷

tired tree Jul 24, 2018, 6:24 PM

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there always are

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regardless, its still the most stable .0 i've ported to since like 4.16

distant lotus Jul 24, 2018, 6:30 PM

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So 4.19 is the most stable for AR right now?

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So I'll probably stick with that. I might try upgrading just to see if I run into issues. I'll keep you posted.

mighty carbon Jul 24, 2018, 6:36 PM

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like I said, I went by the comments.. I don't know anything about AR and UE4 😄

pearl tangle Jul 25, 2018, 1:18 AM

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@distant lotus I have done the image recognition 1's in google's fork which is now up to date on 4.20. Works fine for me

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there is no image tracking available in 4.19 for arcore or arkit so you will need to upgrade

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@wicked oak and @mighty carbon it's the Google Poly plugin that does the realtime gltf loading. 4.21 i think will also have that built in to handle runtime generation much better, not sure if it will make it in by then. but you can definitely modify the google poly plugin and point it somewhere else rather than to the poly library

mighty carbon Jul 25, 2018, 2:02 AM

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aye, interesting

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I am not planning to do anything with that any time soon, but I was just brainstorming some ideas

sturdy coral Jul 25, 2018, 2:32 AM

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How do you guys set up your traces for audio occlusion? seems to default to visibillity, but the player's pwn character capsule blocks that by default

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and if you turn off visibility on the capsule, that will interfere with AI perception stuff right?

mighty carbon Jul 25, 2018, 2:36 AM

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just add your AI actor to trace ignore list

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also, I don't use AI Perception since I can't attach it to character's head (but you can do it in C++)

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I guess for audio it might be different, I haven't tried it with hearing sense

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@sturdy coral ^^ makes sense ?

sturdy coral Jul 25, 2018, 2:49 AM

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for occlusion you can't set the ignore list, the list seems to just default to the emitting actor

mighty carbon Jul 25, 2018, 2:53 AM

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@sturdy coral https://youtu.be/tVvKocG74kw?t=3m20s

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Asher Einhorn

Creating AI in UE4 Part 4 - Sight continued

We look into how to improve our vision check so that the agent's line of sight is broken when we are behind an obstacle.

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sturdy coral Jul 25, 2018, 2:54 AM

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@mighty carbon I'm talking about this for audio occlusion for the player hearing things, not ai audio occlusion

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AI was just a side concern if I changed the visibility response of pawn capsule

mighty carbon Jul 25, 2018, 2:54 AM

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probably similar deal

wanton fog Jul 25, 2018, 4:47 AM

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Hey guyz I was trying to learn the code for the teleportation which is used in the steam VR home. If anyone know a site or tutorial of it, please let me know.

pearl tangle Jul 25, 2018, 8:52 AM

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@wanton fog Teleport is already built into the UE4 VR template?

wanton fog Jul 25, 2018, 8:55 AM

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@pearl tangle I know but I like the steam vr more

pearl tangle Jul 25, 2018, 9:32 AM

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@wanton fog what's the difference? Just get rid of the trail on there and it does pretty much the same thing right?

remote spruce Jul 25, 2018, 10:03 AM

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hey, quick question, do you guys experience a performance drop when the default mirror screen is enabled?

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I don´t understand why the mirror screen is affecting performance, it´s what the engine already rendered for one of the eyes

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I´m using SingleEyeCroppedToFill mode

pearl tangle Jul 25, 2018, 10:24 AM

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@remote spruce because it is then rendering it on another screen as well. It takes performance to render something on another monitor, even if it's mirroring the display

remote spruce Jul 25, 2018, 10:25 AM

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But the scene is already rendered, the engine already created the frame for the left/right eye

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I don´t see this kind of performance drop in unity for instance

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but in UE4 it´s the differnce of running butter smooth and having constant reprojection

tired tree Jul 25, 2018, 12:19 PM

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@remote spruce it shouldn't cause that much of an issue, you are right it is a render target copy to the primary screen

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what hardware are you on?

wintry escarp Jul 25, 2018, 2:30 PM

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is there a new engine version? launcher says yes but I don't see it

jaunty shell Jul 25, 2018, 2:31 PM

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@wintry escarp bug

wintry escarp Jul 25, 2018, 2:31 PM

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must have been a bug, restarted and now it doesnt

jaunty shell Jul 25, 2018, 2:31 PM

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there's none

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had the notification too

wintry escarp Jul 25, 2018, 2:32 PM

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ok, thanks

mighty carbon Jul 25, 2018, 2:43 PM

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I can see 4.20.0 there.. Just haven't installed it yet 😉

granite jacinth Jul 25, 2018, 3:23 PM

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Still waiting on 4.20.1

wicked oak Jul 25, 2018, 3:46 PM

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@granite jacinth we both need it for ps4

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5.5 sdk and stuffs

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but yeah, waiting for .1 at least

granite jacinth Jul 25, 2018, 3:47 PM

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@wicked oak what's wrong with 4.20 on PS$ now?

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Also... If anyone is having issues in 4.19 with Oculus (in regards to SceneComp2d), you can set r.SceneRenderTargetResizeMethod=2 under [/Script/Engine.RendererSettings] in DefaultEngine.ini to fix it. https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-59090

mighty carbon Jul 25, 2018, 4:24 PM

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@granite jacinth is it a bug?

granite jacinth Jul 25, 2018, 4:25 PM

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yes

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Took me forever to find that and finally have a solid fix

mighty carbon Jul 25, 2018, 4:26 PM

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Probably worth reporting to Oculus.. They fix VR-related bugs much quicker than Epic

granite jacinth Jul 25, 2018, 4:26 PM

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If you can do it, that would be awesome, never reported to them before ¯_(ツ)_/¯

mighty carbon Jul 25, 2018, 4:28 PM

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https://developer.oculus.com/contact/

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the first drop down in the Subject is "Reporting a bug"

languid night Jul 25, 2018, 4:29 PM

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What would be the best texture resolution to use for Oculus GO?

mighty carbon Jul 25, 2018, 5:03 PM

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depends on your art style

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you might want to mess with Infinity Blade and Paragon textures and see what works for looks and performance

proper osprey Jul 25, 2018, 5:23 PM

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I'm trying to recreate the motion of the buttons of the touch with blueprints. I'm currently doing the thumbstick rotation motion using lerp to transform the axis value/rest rotation into a new rotation. UE gives me two input events X, Y axis. I'm setting the thumbstick rotation for each axis. But this wont work because each axis input has a different rotator. How can I combine them?

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if I disable one of them they work fine in their own axis

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but if i use them both, only one of them rotates

distant lotus Jul 25, 2018, 5:27 PM

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Thanks @pearl tangle. I haven't tried deploying on Android yet, I'm targeting iOS for now (but might do both platforms eventually). I'll definitely give 4.20 a try.

mighty carbon Jul 25, 2018, 5:36 PM

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https://80.lv/articles/wave-controller-for-vr-ar/

WAVE Controller for VR & AR

A VR enthusiast Pavel Arapov has recently presented his custom hand controller for virtual and augmented reality.

sturdy coral Jul 25, 2018, 7:25 PM

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@proper osprey oculus has a built in example project with an animated controller and animated hands in their branch or on their github

mighty carbon Jul 25, 2018, 8:27 PM

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https://getrad.co/category/product/

RADiCAL

RADiCAL - AI-powered Motion Capture

RADiCAL detects and reconstructs human body motion in 3D from 2D consumer cameras for media, entertainment and AR/VR applications.

wicked oak Jul 25, 2018, 8:28 PM

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comically expensive

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LOL THEY FUCKING REMOVED THE PRICING

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now its "ask us" pricing

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becouse it was comically terrible, so expensive you can literally hire professionals to animate the stuff for that price

mighty carbon Jul 25, 2018, 8:30 PM

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it's free now

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v2 + FBX export

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(and they are working on v3 which will be better of course and that will cost)

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that's how I read it at least

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@pearl tangle have you tried these https://epson.com/moverio-augmented-reality-smart-glasses-for-multi-users ?

Moverio Multi-User Smart Glasses | AR Glasses | Epson.com | Epson US

The Epson Moverio BT-350 smart glasses are designed to be shared. Ideal for museum tours, amusement parks, or shared workplace applications.

wicked oak Jul 25, 2018, 8:31 PM

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well if i can record some anims with it.. could be useful

proper osprey Jul 25, 2018, 8:52 PM

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@sturdy coral Oh great! Thanks!

sturdy coral Jul 25, 2018, 8:54 PM

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@proper osprey it is here:
https://github.com/Oculus-VR/UnrealEngine/tree/4.20/Samples/Oculus/HandSample

sturdy coral Jul 26, 2018, 2:58 AM

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the way they are handling cinematics in Hellblade's VR version looks pretty sweet:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sanPP6-pnY

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Road to VR

14 Minutes of 'Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice' VR Gameplay

Ninja Theory, the minds behind BAFTA award-winning action-adventure game Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (2017), are bringing the full, uncut game to Oculus Rif...

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pearl tangle Jul 26, 2018, 3:55 AM

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@mighty carbon yeah i have tried them out a while back. Pretty basic information overlay type stuff. I call it suplemented reality rather than augmented reality. In a very similar style as google glass just more front of view rather than off to the side

mighty carbon Jul 26, 2018, 3:58 AM

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I see

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so nothing like ARKit or ARCore ?

pearl tangle Jul 26, 2018, 4:01 AM

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nah, they aren't environment aware

mighty carbon Jul 26, 2018, 4:19 AM

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I can't believe there are still no affordable AR glasses available 😦

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I'd imagine Meta 2 with ARCore could be awesome

pearl tangle Jul 26, 2018, 4:42 AM

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maybe. It's not an easy thing to do well thats for sure

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If google allows access to the raw camera feed from the lenovo mirage it will be the best developer device for proper AR for a while I think. Especially since it can already do 6dof tracking on controllers as well, and all the stuff running it is now just ARcore essentially too. Definitely not what you want for long term but as a dev device that's where I would be leaning

balmy surge Jul 26, 2018, 8:40 AM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvyzwN36PSw Anyone know how to replicate something like this?

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Bill Buxton

Digital Tape Drawing

This video demonstrates a novel bimanual technique for drawing on large wall-sized displays. The technique is exploits the skills used in a drawing technique...

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cosmic shoal Jul 26, 2018, 10:16 AM

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@pearl tangle There has't been any VR headsets with camera with real passthrough, my guess is that people have tried it and it's still not good. Meaning that the view of the outside that is captured looks bad inside the headset Be it from bad distortion, latency, resolution or the distance the camera lenses are from your eyes.

pearl tangle Jul 26, 2018, 10:17 AM

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@cosmic shoal Vive Pro does it, and vive focus as well. They just haven't publicly released it

cosmic shoal Jul 26, 2018, 10:17 AM

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The Vive lets you see a very distorted view in Mono, the new vive has two cameras so my guess is they have hopes of solving it.

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heh

pearl tangle Jul 26, 2018, 10:18 AM

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they have already done hand tracking stuff with the focus and pro actually

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD1LVfpSfiA

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UploadVR

Vive Focus: Hand Tracking And 6 DoF Controller Input

HTC provided these clips showing basic hand tracking and 6 DoF controller tracking with the Vive Focus standalone VR headset. The features are planned as fut...

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cosmic shoal Jul 26, 2018, 10:18 AM

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very cool

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I have yet to see any AR in a VR headset tho.

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the latency is aweful in the video tho

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I don't know if latency is what killed the kinect but I lost interest in it immediatly when the feedback had such a large delay, it also bugged me in the Wii.

eager pine Jul 26, 2018, 11:53 AM

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anyone got any good tutorials or tips on how i could do a screw physics animation, like wrench example, where you can screw the screw with your hand

mighty carbon Jul 26, 2018, 1:06 PM

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https://uploadvr.com/see-steamvr-2-0-track-six-headsets-with-four-base-stations/

UploadVR

See SteamVR 2.0 Track Six Headsets With Four Base Stations

A new video from a VR arcade operator shows six people using HTC Vive Pro headsets, tracked by four of the new SteamVR 2.0 base stations.

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interesting

eager pine Jul 26, 2018, 1:27 PM

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whats up with vr splash screens and not allowing me to change them

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currently have two splash screen textures and when trying to change them between different indexes, the first one remains

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really weird, had to restart the project, then it was working

mighty carbon Jul 26, 2018, 3:32 PM

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https://uploadvr.com/mark-zuckerberg-oculus-go-is-off-to-a-good-start/

UploadVR

Mark Zuckerberg: Oculus Go Is 'Off To A Good Start'

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the Oculus Go headset is "off to a good start" after launching back in May 2018, but won't share sales data.

wicked oak Jul 26, 2018, 3:36 PM

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off to a good start with no sales means "meh"

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if it was succesful they would mention that its sold X amount or whatever

mighty carbon Jul 26, 2018, 3:38 PM

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I doubt it's meh

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Go gets sold out in minutes in China

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It just needs solid game(s)

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I mean, GAMES, not those little games from Gear VR

wicked oak Jul 26, 2018, 3:39 PM

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not gonna happen

mighty carbon Jul 26, 2018, 3:39 PM

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but Carmack pushes for stupid movies in VR and that's not gonna sell Go

wicked oak Jul 26, 2018, 3:40 PM

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games dont sell shit on mobile vr

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becouse the audience expects free stuff or cheap stuff

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i dont know of a single gearvr/mobilevr dev that has made more than ive made with DWVR on ps4 (around 50k)

mighty carbon Jul 26, 2018, 3:40 PM

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Go isn't mobile VR, since it doesn't really require phone.. So people are less likely to say "oh, but it's Android phone"

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no, audience doesn't really expect free stuff on Go

wicked oak Jul 26, 2018, 3:41 PM

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the fact that oculus store is literally the worst thing in existence doesnt help either

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its unbrowseable, so everything that isnt on the front page gets 0 sales

mighty carbon Jul 26, 2018, 4:20 PM

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yeah, that part sucks

fleet plume Jul 26, 2018, 4:21 PM

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@wicked oak does DWVR have multiplayer coop? or is that your new, unreleased project?

wicked oak Jul 26, 2018, 4:24 PM

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DWVR 2 would have multiplayer coop

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DWVR 1 did plan it

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but eventually i didnt add it

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i wanted to add it to a patch

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but no one gave a shit

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so i stopped it

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKd-mbBSWcs

YouTube

victor

DWVR First Multiplayer Test Gameplay

Direct gameplay video captured from one match of the WIP multiplayer mode of DWVR. This is from the First Multiplayer Test done December 21th 2016. Recently ...

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this is from a multiplayer test i did

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only skeletons due to simplicity

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also PvP enabled lol

fleet plume Jul 26, 2018, 4:26 PM

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you'd use listen server for that, right?

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i mean as indie ...

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haha amazing

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did you lift the guns from shootergame?

wicked oak Jul 26, 2018, 4:27 PM

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no

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they are a marketplace pack

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and yeah, listen server

fleet plume Jul 26, 2018, 4:28 PM

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with dedicated server it's easy to fetch a player's state from db

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but with listen server the guest actually has to send it?

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or change playerState and replicate

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depending on complexity i guess

tired tree Jul 26, 2018, 4:28 PM

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depends on what you mean by state

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and you can poll from listen servers, but its not "safe"

wicked oak Jul 26, 2018, 4:28 PM

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ill do plenty of clientside stuff

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like, damage and bullets will be clientside

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i dont give a crap if its super trivial to hack

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its a PvE game

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who cares if you make yourself inmortal

tired tree Jul 26, 2018, 4:29 PM

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favor the shooter is being used more and more anyway

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in non VR games

fleet plume Jul 26, 2018, 4:29 PM

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interesting

tired tree Jul 26, 2018, 4:29 PM

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and it makes a LOT more sense in VR

fleet plume Jul 26, 2018, 4:29 PM

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yeah i'd also not care too much about hacking

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as it's coop

wicked oak Jul 26, 2018, 4:30 PM

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@tired tree i mean things like client damage

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a client needs to report when he got damaged

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i need that so things like last second dodge and sword parrying works

tired tree Jul 26, 2018, 4:31 PM

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ah

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that is more tolerable in VR too

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considering the swing distance you can get (in any direction) across a frame or two

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its not known like playing animations

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but you can delay / rollback damage and keep past states too

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likely far too complicated for what you are doing

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but a large scale game wouldn't want to leave it like that

fleet plume Jul 26, 2018, 4:33 PM

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@tired tree your vr plugin comes with MP support IIRC

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does it work with listen servers too?

wicked oak Jul 26, 2018, 4:33 PM

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yes

fleet plume Jul 26, 2018, 4:33 PM

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ah, you using it?

tired tree Jul 26, 2018, 4:34 PM

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listen servers and dedicated are functionally the same, minor caveats

mighty carbon Jul 26, 2018, 4:34 PM

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who wants to play wave shooters nowadays? No one.. That Marvel game that just came out is a wave shooter and while people are quite happy with another AAA game (with Marvel characters!) to be on Rift, a lot of people complain about it being wave shooter

tired tree Jul 26, 2018, 4:34 PM

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the marvel game is terrible looking tbh

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there are better wave shooters in VR already, that require doing something other than holding a button down and pointing for minutes at a time

mighty carbon Jul 26, 2018, 4:35 PM

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I suppose, in a way.. But you can be Wolverine and Deadpool 😃

fleet plume Jul 26, 2018, 4:36 PM

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when having a listen server with host and guest, each having different player stats earned in single player mode: where is the best point for guest to tell host about it's stats?

tired tree Jul 26, 2018, 4:37 PM

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game instance

fleet plume Jul 26, 2018, 4:37 PM

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i already store it there

tired tree Jul 26, 2018, 4:37 PM

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and load from save

fleet plume Jul 26, 2018, 4:37 PM

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same

tired tree Jul 26, 2018, 4:37 PM

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rep to server on join

mighty carbon Jul 26, 2018, 4:37 PM

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I'd love to see that new game from Insomniac

tired tree Jul 26, 2018, 4:37 PM

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could do it through cloud states too

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but thats more involved

mighty carbon Jul 26, 2018, 4:38 PM

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I hope it's more like Destiny (I am sure they won't make it like Lone Echo) than another wave shooter

fleet plume Jul 26, 2018, 4:38 PM

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virtual bool JoinSession(ULocalPlayer* LocalPlayer, int32 SessionIndexInSearchResults) { return false; } this one?

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taken from GameInstance

tired tree Jul 26, 2018, 4:38 PM

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no

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on join have the server request the info or have the player send it, this is the lowest form of offloading the data but you said you don't care about hacking

fleet plume Jul 26, 2018, 4:39 PM

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sry the line i posted doesn;t make any sense at all in this context

tired tree Jul 26, 2018, 4:39 PM

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you also have to realize though, with no external storage they can lose all progress on file corruption or deletion

fleet plume Jul 26, 2018, 4:39 PM

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i should've read it

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yeah @ corruption of save game

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this will be in a prototype state for some while

tired tree Jul 26, 2018, 4:42 PM

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if launching on steam you can hook up steam cloud

fleet plume Jul 26, 2018, 4:42 PM

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so if i ever finish it, i will use something like steam api

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^ 😃

mighty carbon Jul 26, 2018, 7:46 PM

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https://uploadvr.com/microsoft-mixed-reality-flashlight/

UploadVR

Microsoft Adds 'Flashlight' Camera Feature To Windows VR Headsets

You can now say "Flashlight On" to see the real world while wearing a Windows VR headset.

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interesting

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can folks with WMR HMDs tell us more about it and how it looks?

tired tree Jul 26, 2018, 7:55 PM

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well....its just a camera passthrough

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Vive has had that since day1

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though that looks like it is B&W

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since it is their IR cameras

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we knew the specs on WMR cameras before they came out, and they are fairly unusable for AR applications

mighty carbon Jul 26, 2018, 7:57 PM

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oh, I see

sturdy coral Jul 26, 2018, 9:30 PM

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I think they are b&w though they may not have IR filtering either so include IR too?

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that would be good to know actually.. I could have some IR lights and not have to crank up my lights when using WMR at night 😛

granite jacinth Jul 26, 2018, 9:57 PM

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VR IS DEAD

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Anyone read this? https://blog.vive.com/us/2018/07/26/think-vr-dying-just-getting-started/

VIVE Blog

Think VR is dying? It’s just getting started

Pardon us if we're not heeding the alarms. News of the so-called death of VR comes once a year and is greatly exaggerated.

sturdy coral Jul 26, 2018, 10:51 PM

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I read it as: we're making lots of money selling Vive Pro to businesses and high-end consumers

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I wonder if the Samsung revenue share number is just Odyssey or if it is including Samsung being the screen supplier for Vive and Rift

mighty carbon Jul 27, 2018, 12:38 AM

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leading by revenue != leading by number of headsets and mind share

restive blade Jul 27, 2018, 12:56 AM

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hey people

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going insane here...

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How can I stop stupid things like (elbow going behind body) using a 3 point vr setup here...

glossy agate Jul 27, 2018, 12:58 AM

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Use effectors to adjust the limits. I just use a plugin that helps with that, I just fine tune

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Like elbow effectors

restive blade Jul 27, 2018, 12:58 AM

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which one plz

glossy agate Jul 27, 2018, 12:59 AM

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I use BIK. There is also ikinema, and one on the marketplace

restive blade Jul 27, 2018, 12:59 AM

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iknema is not affordable

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that's full body

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we have effecotors and target locations... we are trying to fix it....

mighty carbon Jul 27, 2018, 1:03 AM

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https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Animation/NodeReference/SkeletalControls/TwoBoneIK

restive blade Jul 27, 2018, 1:03 AM

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using that also

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it still does not deal with things like this

mighty carbon Jul 27, 2018, 1:05 AM

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well, why don't you show a video illustrating the issue ?

restive blade Jul 27, 2018, 1:08 AM

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hold on

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/9y35effc5pzeu2y/game_preview_standalone__64-bit_pcd3d_sm5__7_26_2018_6_08_35_pm.mp4?dl=0

Dropbox

game_preview_standalone__64-bit_pcd3d_sm5__7_26_2018_6_08_35_pm.mp4

Shared with Dropbox

mighty carbon Jul 27, 2018, 1:14 AM

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IK is finicky, even in 3D apps..

glossy agate Jul 27, 2018, 1:16 AM

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Ikinema Indi license is like <$150 isn’t it? Yeah don’t get the full thing, that’s thousands of dollars I think

restive blade Jul 27, 2018, 1:17 AM

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I never said this was indi

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costs are massive man

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for something that should be doable

mighty carbon Jul 27, 2018, 1:18 AM

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lol, if you don't have funding, then you are indie

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so, get yourself indie license 😉

restive blade Jul 27, 2018, 1:18 AM

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We have funding.. just not stupid money funding

glossy agate Jul 27, 2018, 1:19 AM

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Is it less than $50k? I think that’s where the cutoff is

restive blade Jul 27, 2018, 1:19 AM

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no.. it's more then that... but they want something like... 50 k a year...

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or more

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and it's still not an out of the box system

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still a craptone of work

glossy agate Jul 27, 2018, 1:19 AM

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Looks like it’s more of a skin weight issue on the wrist though that should be controlled by a rotator

restive blade Jul 27, 2018, 1:19 AM

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IKinema is not viable

sturdy coral Jul 27, 2018, 1:49 AM

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@glossy agate @restive blade yeah maybe not even a weight issue, you may just need to drive the twist bone if it is using something like the epic skeleton

glossy agate Jul 27, 2018, 1:51 AM

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Well they need the twist thing, can't remember the specific name but you have them in Maya, Epics skeleton should come with it with the ART tool

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Even fading the weight like 4 polys down the forearm should hide a lot though

sturdy coral Jul 27, 2018, 1:53 AM

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I think it is shoulder twist corrective rotates 50% opposite of humerous, forearm rotates 100% with hand, both only on the bone axis

glossy agate Jul 27, 2018, 1:54 AM

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Yeah you are correct. Its like 50/50 on the actual skin though

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Just tracking my tattoos to see what moves

sturdy coral Jul 27, 2018, 1:55 AM

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there is a forum post where an epic guy tells the values to use with epic skeleton

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where forearm connects to hand should roll ~100% with hand and gradually blends back to 0% near elbow

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here it is: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/111599/art-trouble-testing-the-forearm-roll.html

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says forearm 50%, upper arm -100%

glossy agate Jul 27, 2018, 2:02 AM

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Yeah they just need a better fade on it, but still maintain the ability to kink the wrist. I think a lot of games just use armor to hide it haha

mighty carbon Jul 27, 2018, 2:18 AM

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has anyone experienced an issue with re-importing animated FBX and not having new anims to be imported ?

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no one can seem to answer in the #animation

glossy agate Jul 27, 2018, 2:45 AM

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Is it replacement or all new anims? I think reimport only replaces but doesn’t add. I could be completely wrong though

mighty carbon Jul 27, 2018, 2:46 AM

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some anims are the same, but updated.. Those import again fine. It's the additional new anims don't show up.

glossy agate Jul 27, 2018, 2:47 AM

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Maybe I am completely right then haha

mighty carbon Jul 27, 2018, 2:48 AM

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is it a bug?

glossy agate Jul 27, 2018, 2:48 AM

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I havnt tried doing that with anims yet. Didn’t work with textures though when I tried after importing the wrong format

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I think it’s just the way it works. Probably looks for matching string on the name and reimports those, but doesn’t search for new names. Probably have to full on replace it

mighty carbon Jul 27, 2018, 2:51 AM

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well, the issue is that I have to rename skeleton in my scene in 3D app in order to be able to import FBX as new one

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otherwise it uses existing skeleton

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or errors out if I don't specify one (because then it tries to make a new skeleton with the name of the existing one)

mighty carbon Jul 27, 2018, 3:13 AM

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https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/452201/how-do-i-reimport-new-animations.html

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seems like Epic didn't think anyone would be adding anims as they develop their project 🙄

abstract forum Jul 27, 2018, 7:37 AM

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Ok - managed to get a VR scene running at 120 FPS on at 1050 2GB card. 4.20 is really awesome

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I am going to document this as I disabled allot of things

jaunty shell Jul 27, 2018, 7:41 AM

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that's quite the low end GPU 😃

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also 2GB of memory damn

abstract forum Jul 27, 2018, 7:42 AM

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Yeah

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I am documenting it now

mighty carbon Jul 27, 2018, 2:35 PM

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4.20.1 is out

granite jacinth Jul 27, 2018, 2:51 PM

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hmm

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 2:52 PM

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this is exactly why i havent updated my games to it

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also becouse engine tweaks and stuff

granite jacinth Jul 27, 2018, 2:54 PM

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@wicked oak ?

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 2:54 PM

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i actually need 4.20

granite jacinth Jul 27, 2018, 2:54 PM

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Me too

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But...

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 2:54 PM

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its the current minimum version for PSVR

granite jacinth Jul 27, 2018, 2:54 PM

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Should I update now and cry?

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Or what

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 2:54 PM

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wait a bit

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well, in your case its no issue

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but i have tons of engine edits around

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so porting those is a pain

mighty carbon Jul 27, 2018, 3:02 PM

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so, what kind of fixes do you expect in 4.20.2 ?

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@wicked oak ^^

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 3:04 PM

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just some other bugs/crashes

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when i upgrade, that version is going to get my engine changes, and that version will be the one ill use to push a DWVR ps4 patch

eager pine Jul 27, 2018, 3:06 PM

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trying to rotate a statich mesh based on the hand rotation

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but it keeps snapping back each time

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📎 unknown.png

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is there something im forgetting?

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prob a set something

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im setting not adding

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right

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now im totally doing it wrong haha

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its spinning crazy now

granite jacinth Jul 27, 2018, 3:25 PM

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Meh, can't even update anyway

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all the plugins we are using

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75% of them are still outdated

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GS is still at 4.18, so dumb

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(I compiled it myself for 4.19)

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 3:26 PM

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GS?

granite jacinth Jul 27, 2018, 3:26 PM

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GameSparks my bad

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 3:47 PM

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i'am actually tempted now

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from 4.18.3

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where patch versions always released this close to the minor?

mighty carbon Jul 27, 2018, 3:50 PM

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someone said 4.20.1 shows up as 4.20.1preview 5

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 4:48 PM

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WOO ive done it!!!!

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DWVR At 120 FPS fully stable on PS4 pro

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my latest high performance AI navigation has finally pushed me over the threshold and it now runs perfect

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 4:50 PM

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congrats

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wdym with high performance ai navigation?

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your own tree-like nav system?

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 4:52 PM

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just inherited the character movement component and nuked the built in navmesh movement, then implemented my own NavWalking

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wich is faster and i also have my own crowd separation

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wich is also faster than the ue4 default crowd avoidance

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 4:52 PM

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the boid-based one?

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 4:53 PM

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yes

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEhKJFd_rjs

YouTube

victor

Skeleton Movement 3

▶ Play video

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 4:54 PM

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how are you moving the pawn?

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 4:54 PM

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i might also make them tick at 60 fps instead of 120 to save more perf

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 4:54 PM

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and what was that red semi-transparent plane?

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 4:54 PM

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damage screen

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its a vr game, so when you get hit there is a transparent screen in front of you that gets red

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 4:55 PM

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yeah, makes sense 😄

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do you have a separate pawn for testing without vr?

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 4:55 PM

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yes

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its a inherited one

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 4:56 PM

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because you're jumping around a lot in that vid

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and it seems like it follows the mouse

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 4:56 PM

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its my chaos monkey

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 4:56 PM

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and looks for surface beneat it

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 4:56 PM

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its super basic

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it inherits from the player pawn

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but then disables the tracking

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and essentially does a "teleport" (same teleport as the player) to a random location

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and it aims and shoots to the closest enemy

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 4:57 PM

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ah ok

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thought you were doing that yourself

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 4:57 PM

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no, that is an automated player

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 4:57 PM

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also did you upgrade the graphics?

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 4:57 PM

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for test purposes (and benchmarks)

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no, i kept them at the same level

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 4:57 PM

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it looks way better than some stuff you posted 1-2months ago

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 4:58 PM

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that other stuff is probably a different game

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 4:58 PM

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which looked flat shaded

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 4:58 PM

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thats the RPG

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different game altogether

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 4:58 PM

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hard to keep track as an outsider 😄

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 4:58 PM

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im working on a DWVR sequel

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so i wanted to solidify the tech of DWVR itself

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and do a BIG patch, improving a bunch of stuff

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then use that patch announcement to announce the sequel

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wich will be similar but working on multiplayer and cooperative

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📎 unknown.png

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im really at the absolute limit

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look at the "free space" on the frames

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btw this is also using dynamic resolution

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and TAA upscaling

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 5:01 PM

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the dynamic resolution feature epic add for fortnite?

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 5:01 PM

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yes

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i forced it on

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its not meant to be used for VR

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but i dont give a fuck lol

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just edited the code to force it on

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 5:02 PM

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impressive

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 5:02 PM

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nah its literally commenting out a "if is stereo" check

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 5:03 PM

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i meant all taken together

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 5:04 PM

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the main upgrade

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is when i just nuked dynamic lighting from the engine

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the forward renderer compute pass that calculates pointlight? gone

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this saves me 1 full milisecond

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📎 unknown.png

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this is how the frame looks

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this was taken on a 4k screenshot

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200% screen res at fullscreen

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 5:08 PM

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though

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this makes me also sad

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that it's actually necessary to remove dynamic lighting

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to meet fps demand of VR

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in UE4

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 5:09 PM

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bruh PSVR

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120 fps

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also the forward renderer light grid shader taking 1 ms when you have 0 lights on the screen is a terrible thing

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 5:10 PM

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GI or go home 😎

sturdy coral Jul 27, 2018, 5:26 PM

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@mighty carbon 4.20.1: Fixed! UE-62099 Namespaces are not removed when importing Skeletal Meshes from FBX, and breaks the importing of referenced Animations

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that might effect the animation import thing you were seeing, not sure, maybe unrelated

mighty carbon Jul 27, 2018, 5:27 PM

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Aye, gotta test

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 5:38 PM

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playtesting dwvr on ps4 at 120

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holy shit its smooth as silk

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it is incredibly obvious on the controllers

sturdy coral Jul 27, 2018, 6:05 PM

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@wicked oak what kind of AA does DWVR use?

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 6:14 PM

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upscale TAA

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 6:41 PM

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i thought TAA was only usable with the deferred renderer

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ah nevermind https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Performance/ForwardRenderer

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"The forward renderer supports both MSAA and Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA) ..."

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i'am using nav mesh for teleportation and want to toggle some areas if it to allow/disallow teleportation to it

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are navigation filters the way to go there?

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 6:50 PM

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those would probably work

fleet plume Jul 27, 2018, 6:50 PM

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blocking volumes seem a bit cumbersome as i'd have to destroy/spawn them

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they also leave a hole inside them

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ffs unreal 😭

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📎 unknown.png

wicked oak Jul 27, 2018, 8:17 PM

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https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/92fuau/lessons_learned_being_the_lead_programmer_on_an/ @granite jacinth

r/oculus - Lessons Learned: Being the Lead Programmer on an Early ...

3 votes and 0 comments so far on Reddit

granite jacinth Jul 27, 2018, 8:18 PM

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Yeah, who's that newbie

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not sure why formatting broke all of the sudden

granite jacinth Jul 27, 2018, 11:22 PM

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@vblanco#709 let me know when you start doing them:)

wicked oak Jul 28, 2018, 8:00 AM

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@granite jacinth doing what?

granite jacinth Jul 28, 2018, 11:25 AM

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@wicked oak oh. Reddit posts!

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Damn.

. My shit blew up

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Better than my AMAs... ROFL

wicked oak Jul 28, 2018, 11:41 AM

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still continuing your very good marketing on reddit and forums

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yeah i will do a post when i announce the patch

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bunch of stuff needs to be fixed

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and i need to pass review

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i want to to a "comes tomorrow" type of announcement

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and accompany it with a brag article about what the fuck i did to optimize DWVR from "barely 30 fps on ps4" to 120 fps stable

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mostly talking about how to use the unreal tools, and other tools, to optimize, and what kind of things tends to hammer perf the most

granite jacinth Jul 28, 2018, 12:01 PM

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@wicked oak be careful how you word it. Most people reading it won't be in the technical side of things so you may lose them a bit.

wicked oak Jul 28, 2018, 12:02 PM

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this is definietly going to be an in-depth tech article

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geared towards other gamedevs

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ill see if i can rescue some older versions of DWVR to have some progress pics

daring mural Jul 28, 2018, 12:12 PM

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30 to 120 on ps4 hardware

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we already know how you did it

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black magic

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interested in this read, though 👌

wicked oak Jul 28, 2018, 12:14 PM

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most of it is cpu optimization

daring mural Jul 28, 2018, 12:14 PM

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did you modify the movement comp for DWVR?

wicked oak Jul 28, 2018, 12:15 PM

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yes

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📎 unknown.png

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animation fast path being fucked?

granite jacinth Jul 28, 2018, 1:06 PM

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Hmmm

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I will be going to https://www.orlandoix.com/

OrlandoiX

OrlandoiX 2018

The Southeast's Largest Gathering of Creators in Virtual Reality, Video Games, and Digital Arts. Held August 17-18, 2018 in Orlando, Florida.

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Anyone interested in free tickets? They gave me 8... And I won't be able to do shit since I will be the only one going, so I will need to attend to the booth.

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Otherwise, I would be willing to share the booth :)

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It's a VR one obviously

wicked oak Jul 28, 2018, 1:14 PM

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lil bit too far m8

forest plover Jul 28, 2018, 11:49 PM

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@granite jacinth just gonna warn you, its a super small event...

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at least last year when I went, it was pretty much a single room..

alpine ore Jul 29, 2018, 1:56 PM

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@tired tree Hi, is your plugin available for Mac?

wicked oak Jul 29, 2018, 4:22 PM

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PS4 is just lit

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benchmarking optimizations

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15 enemies running around and shooting, with SUPER low overhead character movemnet (custom coded) and the bullets being done through async traces (to ship to other threads)...

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7 ms CPU Tick Time

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quite impressive to be this bad

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gonna see if i can make them run around at 60 fps to save perf

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damn, a naive implementation gave me great gains

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its quite impressive to see just HOW SLOW "set actor transform" can be

wicked oak Jul 29, 2018, 6:16 PM

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doing hacky experiments

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everything in the world set to half framerate

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as an AActor itself feature

tired tree Jul 29, 2018, 6:28 PM

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@alpine ore if you compile it for it, I don't own one and can't generate the binaries

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@wicked oak what exactly did you change on Phys_NavWalking? That movement mode barely has anything in it to begin with, its basically just a velocity projected to nav mesh and a falling check.

wicked oak Jul 29, 2018, 6:29 PM

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@tired tree bye falling check, could misbehave way too easily

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bunch of random things removed

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and the navmesh check done a bit more like my DWVR movement snippet

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the main gain comes from the "no misbehaving"

tired tree Jul 29, 2018, 6:29 PM

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mmm

wicked oak Jul 29, 2018, 6:29 PM

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at the moment im experimenting with cutting Tick in half

tired tree Jul 29, 2018, 6:30 PM

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what do you mean by misbehave exactly?

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there isn't much to go wrong there

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it checks for gaps and enters falling state

wicked oak Jul 29, 2018, 6:30 PM

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i have added a system to FTickFunction that skips one of every 2 frames

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randomized on the Actor initialize components function, so actors wont all trigger at once

tired tree Jul 29, 2018, 6:30 PM

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you can lower the tick rate of the character nativly

wicked oak Jul 29, 2018, 6:30 PM

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yes

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but i want to be exactly 1 out of 2 frames

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not through time

tired tree Jul 29, 2018, 6:31 PM

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aren't you manually caluclating projectile collisions?

wicked oak Jul 29, 2018, 6:31 PM

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yes

tired tree Jul 29, 2018, 6:31 PM

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you can move your enemies to during physics on tick then if they are manually calculating and not physics bodies

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since you don't require sweeps

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and save a shitload

wicked oak Jul 29, 2018, 6:31 PM

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uhmm, could try that

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📎 unknown.png

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at the moment im cpu bottlenecked by just a tiiiiny bit

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this is on a benchmark level that throws 15 enemies to you

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instead of the normal 10

tired tree Jul 29, 2018, 6:32 PM

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yeah, move them to during physics

wicked oak Jul 29, 2018, 6:32 PM

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currently compiling engine from the hack

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ill check what happens

tired tree Jul 29, 2018, 6:32 PM

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99% of the ticks are pre-physics if they are primitives

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or characters

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for obvious reasons

wicked oak Jul 29, 2018, 6:33 PM

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have you ever done anything with the significance manager?

tired tree Jul 29, 2018, 6:33 PM

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no

wicked oak Jul 29, 2018, 6:33 PM

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i was eyeing it to control framerate of the enemies

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becouse i found that 30 fps enemies (render is 120) work fine if they are past 10 meters

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you dont see a difference

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but if they are lower than 10 meters its SUPER obvios becouse they jitter around

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i was thinking on making it so enemies behind you update at 30 fps, enemies past 10 meters update at 30 fps, and enemies that are close get 120 fps for the 2 closer and 60 fps for the rest

tired tree Jul 29, 2018, 6:37 PM

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update period or animations only?

wicked oak Jul 29, 2018, 6:37 PM

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animations are actually like 0.2 miliseconds for all 15 enemies

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so its not even worth to bother

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Tick in general

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my goal is to lower overhead for 120 fps

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the only other optimization i could try is to do multithreaded Tick like a fucking madman

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but thats unfeasible

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as it would bottleneck anyway

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as of now im bottlenecking REALLY hard on moving objects

alpine ore Jul 30, 2018, 10:06 AM

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@tired tree Thanks for getting back to me, got it compiled for Mac ok

mighty carbon Jul 30, 2018, 6:10 PM

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https://uploadvr.com/htc-vive-pro-owners-need-to-buy-an-attach-kit-to-use-official-wireless-adapter/

UploadVR

HTC Vive Pro Owners Need To Buy An Attach Kit To Use Wireless Adapter

Owners of the HTC Vive Pro will need to buy a separate attach kit to use the upcoming wireless adapter, a setup guide suggests.

soft beacon Jul 30, 2018, 6:42 PM

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Anyone aware of a way to focus the android camera when making ARcore apps?

mighty carbon Jul 30, 2018, 6:57 PM

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https://magic-leap.reality.news/news/magic-leap-one-field-view-specs-finally-uncovered-0186278/

WonderHowTo

Magic Leap One Field of View Specs Finally Uncovered

In the lead up to the Magic Leap One launch, Magic Leap has been coy about what the actual field of view (FoV) is for its first commercial product. Now, the source code of the FoV documentation (published last month as a placeholder with the just the text "Coming soon on laun...

wicked oak Jul 30, 2018, 6:58 PM

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so a bit higher than hololens

mighty carbon Jul 30, 2018, 6:59 PM

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only vertically

soft beacon Jul 30, 2018, 7:30 PM

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dookie af

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I used to shit on the Oculus Go and I ended up loving it, so maybe this will come through as well, but my grandma could do better with $4B

wicked oak Jul 30, 2018, 7:46 PM

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ive been using the Go a lot lately

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to watch movies

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its a bit hard on the eyes, so only 1 hour at a time more or less. but damn it is great to be laying around the sofa and watching a movie on a huge screen

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plus the focus is far so better for the eyes

mighty carbon Jul 30, 2018, 7:51 PM

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😃

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somehow my Go sucks when it comes to streaming movies. Maybe it's time for me to upgrade my WiFi router 🤔

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@soft beacon kinda hard to justify spending $1k+ on something that might end up not loving

soft beacon Jul 30, 2018, 7:56 PM

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@mighty carbon I have watched Netflix without lag, it may be wifi

mighty carbon Jul 30, 2018, 7:57 PM

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well, I watch Netflix for like 20 min fine and then it goes to sh!t.. Also can't stream Amazon through the browser well for even a few minutes 😦

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what's considered a decent wifi router nowadays ?

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(mine is like 10 years old)

soft beacon Jul 30, 2018, 7:57 PM

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anyone with 5G

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5GHz*

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Linksys is a good brand

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this is a good one https://www.amazon.com/Linksys-AC1900-Wireless-Certified-Refurbished/dp/B00MNK34VM/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1532980766&sr=1-4&keywords=linksys+5ghz

mighty carbon Jul 30, 2018, 8:02 PM

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what about this one https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=9SIAD7H5CT6616 ?

soft beacon Jul 30, 2018, 8:02 PM

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yep, thats good too

mighty carbon Jul 30, 2018, 8:03 PM

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aye, thanks

sturdy coral Jul 30, 2018, 8:05 PM

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@mighty carbon not only vertically, hololens is 30° : 17.5° and ML appears to be 40° : 30°

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it is a nice bump, just not enough yet

mighty carbon Jul 30, 2018, 8:08 PM

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I see

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Meta 2 has 90 deg FOV

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2.5K resolution, 60Hz refresh rate

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I wonder why didn't they just buy out Meta and made it better

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(unless Meta wasn't up for sale)

wicked oak Jul 30, 2018, 8:12 PM

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@mighty carbon i dont stream them

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i just torrent the highest quality blu ray rip i can find and put it on the device

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works like a charm for anime

mighty carbon Jul 30, 2018, 8:12 PM

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lol

wicked oak Jul 30, 2018, 8:12 PM

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recently watched the full Hellsing series (10 chapters of 50 mins each)

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2 gigabytes per episode

mighty carbon Jul 30, 2018, 8:12 PM

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why not buy it and then rip it ?

wicked oak Jul 30, 2018, 8:12 PM

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becouse i actually cant buy it

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i also have netflix on the thing, but also doesnt work that well for me

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a few times ive actually torrented a show i could watch on netflix

mighty carbon Jul 30, 2018, 8:13 PM

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they don't sell Hellsing in Spain ?

wicked oak Jul 30, 2018, 8:13 PM

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no

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https://myanimelist.net/anime/777/Hellsing_Ultimate

MyAnimeList.net

Hellsing Ultimate

There exist creatures of darkness and evil that plague the night, devouring any human unfortunate enough to be caught in their grasp. On the other side is Hellsing, an organization dedicated to destroying these supernatural forces that threaten the very existence of humanity....

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this

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also crunchyroll doesnt have the rights in spain

mighty carbon Jul 30, 2018, 8:14 PM

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damn.. odd

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order from Germany then? (or France)

wicked oak Jul 30, 2018, 8:15 PM

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you cant rip it

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they are DRM-d to hell

mighty carbon Jul 30, 2018, 8:15 PM

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well, buy it and then torrent it 😃

wicked oak Jul 30, 2018, 8:16 PM

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the state of global rights drives me mad

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the best thing i had is when i had a program called Smartflix, wich tricked netflix servers into allowing you to watch any show, worldwide

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it wasnt an vpn, just some kind of DNS trickery, so it used your normal internet (fast)

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they found the trick and nuked it 😦

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that thing was glorious, you had access to Global netflix, if a show isnt in your country you grab it from other

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grab whatever anime you want from japanese netflix, or even bolywood flicks from indian netflix

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awesome stuff

mighty carbon Jul 30, 2018, 8:19 PM

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_Eve << that anime went to Kickstarter to get English translation. I ordered special BR edition. Now none of the websites is functional, so I am not sure what happened. I am glad I got the official BR back then.

Time of Eve

Time of Eve (イヴの時間, Ivu no Jikan) is a six-episode ONA anime series created by Yasuhiro Yoshiura. Produced by Studio Rikka and DIRECTIONS, Inc., the series streamed on Yahoo! Japan from August 1, 2008 to September 18, 2009, with simulcasts by Crunchyroll. A theatric...

wicked oak Jul 30, 2018, 8:19 PM

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i would gladly pay 40 dollars a month or similar to access that global netflix

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normal netflix is 12

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im kind of sad i cant pay for crunchyroll

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a lot of the animes i watch are on there

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but are on the USA version

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spanish version has naruto + couple more

mighty carbon Jul 30, 2018, 8:24 PM

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what about Funimation ?

wicked oak Jul 30, 2018, 8:24 PM

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not availible whatsoever

mighty carbon Jul 30, 2018, 8:24 PM

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:/

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are you sure it's Spain and not North Korea? 😛

wicked oak Jul 30, 2018, 8:24 PM

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📎 unknown.png

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and im for real

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i do find interesting that netflix is adding more animes that arent dubbed to spanish

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they used to have the spanish dubs of everything

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but now they are adding some that have english/japanese and no spanish

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thats something really rare, its super common that netflix has a worldwide show license, but it doesnt have a spanish dub and they dont bother to put it

mighty carbon Jul 30, 2018, 8:29 PM

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do you guys think 4.20.2 will be coming ?

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Oculus hasn't updated their repo yet, so I am thinking they are waiting

sturdy coral Jul 30, 2018, 10:03 PM

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@mighty carbon there are enough reported bugs that I'm sure there will be a 4.20.2

jaunty shell Jul 31, 2018, 6:14 AM

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@wicked oak how dare you watch dubs 😬

runic cedar Jul 31, 2018, 8:12 AM

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Hello i have a question: what is better cardboard or daydream on the Unreal engine ?

solid elk Jul 31, 2018, 10:18 AM

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see for release do you have a seperate binary for VR?

runic cedar Jul 31, 2018, 10:39 AM

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nope
but i chose Gear VR and i will try to make teleport movements.

mighty carbon Jul 31, 2018, 4:01 PM

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so, has anyone tried Hellblade VR yet ?

mighty carbon Jul 31, 2018, 4:44 PM

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https://www.oculus.com/blog/oc5-preview-first-18-talks-revealed-registration-now-open-to-attend-september-26-to-27-in-san-jose/

OC5 Preview: First 18 Talks Revealed, Registration Now Open to Att...

Our annual developer conference kicks off in less than two months, and it’s shaping up to be our biggest Oculus Connect yet. Today, we’re excited to unveil our first round of panels, tech talks, and interactive show floor sessions—and to announce that registration to at...

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looks like Carmack isn't going to have a talk ?

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For Pimax backers: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pimax8kvr/pimax-the-worlds-first-8k-vr-headset/posts/2252002

Kickstarter

Pimax 8K VR

Update 27: Pimax 8K progress update & the upcoming backer meetups...

Hi Futurists,We have been working with M1 testers to improve the product for almost two months and over 400 games tested, the community contributed to the beta testing a lot as well. http://forum.pimaxvr.com/t/how-to-contribute-to-the-closed-beta/7173As planned, we are assemb...

fleet plume Jul 31, 2018, 5:12 PM

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Porting Your App to Project Santa Cruz Gabor Szauer, Oculus Developer Relations Engineer The introduction of standalone means the arrival of more approachable devices and, for developers, a broader range of consumers to target. The good news is you’re already ready. A stable of universal techniques and best practices can help reduce draw calls and hit perf without sacrificing fidelity. We’ll start with an overview of the device and basic considerations, and walk step by step through the process of reviewing and optimizing textures, scene geometry, and lighting. This session will also include a deep dive on engine profiling tools and specific Santa Cruz performance targets.

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from the OC5 link above

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so santa cruz will get at least into more dev hands next month?

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otherwise that talk wouldn't make much sense, if only a handful of people would have an actual device

mighty carbon Jul 31, 2018, 5:39 PM

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maybe

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there is nothing about it on Oculus Start section

eager pine Jul 31, 2018, 6:29 PM

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any examples made on a umg widget that has an arrow controlled by the thumbstick?

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on the hand

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if that makes sense

mighty carbon Jul 31, 2018, 6:33 PM

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since it's in VR, why use arrow controlled by thumbstick when you can use "laser pointer", which is more comfortable and intuitive ?

eager pine Jul 31, 2018, 6:35 PM

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@mighty carbon its situation based, you have only 1 hand available during the situation

mighty carbon Jul 31, 2018, 6:38 PM

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well, hack it - make a hidden actor you move with stick and have interaction component on it, which will interact with UMG.. I think making arrow inside of the UMG was hacky in non-VR to begin with.

eager pine Jul 31, 2018, 6:39 PM

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well, wouldnt that persume the same logic as for using an umg? just asking 😛

mighty carbon Jul 31, 2018, 6:39 PM

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not really

eager pine Jul 31, 2018, 6:39 PM

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Its basically gonna be a meny you can select items, not really a need for an arrow

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its going to be like max 4 items

mighty carbon Jul 31, 2018, 6:39 PM

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oh

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JbFZI1Zdc4

YouTube

Unreal Engine

Gamepad Support for UMG | Community Led Training | Unreal Engine

User Interfaces are an essential part of any game, and they should be intuitive and simple to navigate. Celeste returns to delve further into UMG development...

▶ Play video

eager pine Jul 31, 2018, 6:40 PM

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I persume the arrow is unessecarry maybe

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hate that links open internet explorer, is not even the default web browser O.o

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ahh wow, you accualty reminded me. I have made a multiplayer game with playstation controllers as main controllers, so i could just use the same thumbstick logic there lol

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thanks @mighty carbon

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it was a pain in the ass the first time haha

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Ill probably have to use that video as follow up, its like 2 years since i did that in unreal xD

mighty carbon Jul 31, 2018, 6:54 PM

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what are you working on @eager pine ?

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(game/experience/app?)

eager pine Jul 31, 2018, 7:10 PM

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@mighty carbon We are working on a climbing simulator for a company thats going to use it for training 😃

mighty carbon Jul 31, 2018, 7:11 PM

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oh, I see

eager pine Jul 31, 2018, 7:11 PM

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We are trying to make the user experience as immersive as possible and easy, for first time VR experiencers to understand, but its hard sometimes 😛

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without to much tutorial

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fairly i have come across alot of bugs on the splash screen side, for example swapping splash screen between different actions or faults

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its there a way to keep the player longer in the loading area between levels where the splash screens are?

glossy agate Jul 31, 2018, 7:56 PM

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You can set it manually to fire before the rest of the loading action takes place and just use a timer for how long you want it. When you set it the engine does the loading and unloading for you in default.

eager pine Jul 31, 2018, 7:58 PM

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well thats neat, that would prob work fine

mighty carbon Jul 31, 2018, 8:53 PM

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I wonder how many units of Go Oculus shipped total

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and how many are now collecting dust

eager pine Jul 31, 2018, 8:53 PM

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hmm

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setting style of a button crashes my project

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this accualty isnt doable?

mighty carbon Jul 31, 2018, 9:02 PM

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probably something to ask in #umg

glossy agate Jul 31, 2018, 9:05 PM

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Is that the vr splash screen?

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I was talking about the actual native VR splash

eager pine Jul 31, 2018, 9:25 PM

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no, this is just an umg, where i use the thumbstick to select images

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im instead just changing the background color

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trying to change anything in brush ends in crash

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@mighty carbon she never showed how to do the event click on button stuff

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thats what i really needed

placid rampart Jul 31, 2018, 9:50 PM

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Hey, are you guys using SkeletalMeshes or Static meshes for guns?

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I'm starting a basic pickup system from the ground up where i would like to expand in the future to guns.

tired tree Jul 31, 2018, 11:51 PM

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does it matter? if you want a fully fledged pickup system it should support both

placid rampart Aug 1, 2018, 12:40 AM

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Yeah, i guess you're right.

eager pine Aug 1, 2018, 12:21 PM

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anyone know why the thumbstick axises zeroes out when using the click event thumbstick?

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Somehow, when pressing the yellow marked action mapping, the axis mapping for the thumbstick zeroes out

jaunty shell Aug 1, 2018, 12:26 PM

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@eager pine as in zeroes in the input edit window or zeros at runtime

eager pine Aug 1, 2018, 12:45 PM

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Zeors out the axis values in runtime, while playing

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@jaunty shell

jaunty shell Aug 1, 2018, 12:46 PM

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where are you touching/pressing your pad ?

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if its in the center, then its bound to get zeroed :p

eager pine Aug 1, 2018, 12:57 PM

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it doesnt matter where, it zeroes out anyway

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@jaunty shell sorry forgetting to tag

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So when not pressing, the value is correct, but when clicking, it zeroes out

jaunty shell Aug 1, 2018, 12:58 PM

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hmm

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yeah thats weird

eager pine Aug 1, 2018, 12:59 PM

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these are the values i set

jaunty shell Aug 1, 2018, 12:59 PM

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wait

eager pine Aug 1, 2018, 12:59 PM

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then i calculate if its up or down, right or left, but when it zeroes out, it accualty goes to the value thats up

jaunty shell Aug 1, 2018, 12:59 PM

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you set the same variable for the left and right ?

eager pine Aug 1, 2018, 1:00 PM

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no worries, it dont

jaunty shell Aug 1, 2018, 1:00 PM

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alright

eager pine Aug 1, 2018, 1:01 PM

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so it accualty goes for value zero, no matter what, but if both values == 0 it should output -1

📎 unknown.png

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but it outputs 0, which is up on the pad when pressing to the right

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all values are correct and tested, so it shouldnt do that

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I am doing something wrong here, but i cant pin point it

jaunty shell Aug 1, 2018, 1:04 PM

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@eager pine check your axis settings in the input ?

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maybe something got changed

eager pine Aug 1, 2018, 1:04 PM

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well all the axises are confirmed to be right, when getting the axis value, as it seems it changes in a split millisecond to 0 when clicking

mighty carbon Aug 1, 2018, 2:32 PM

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Can someone please tell me the OD of the Rift sensor ?

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I want to 3D print covers at work, while I have a chance 😃

fleet plume Aug 1, 2018, 2:35 PM

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something between 35-40 mm

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damn

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it's 35

mighty carbon Aug 1, 2018, 2:35 PM

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needs to be exact number - PLA filament isn't flexible

fleet plume Aug 1, 2018, 2:36 PM

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no precise measurement with a ruler

mighty carbon Aug 1, 2018, 2:36 PM

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got a caliper handy? 😃

fleet plume Aug 1, 2018, 2:36 PM

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i'd go for 36 then and use padding

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nope

tired tree Aug 1, 2018, 3:23 PM

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@mighty carbon surely thingiverse or another depot has plans for that

prisma marlin Aug 1, 2018, 3:30 PM

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Hey are there devs who speak french here ?

mighty carbon Aug 1, 2018, 3:46 PM

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not at the moment @prisma marlin

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@tired tree oddly enough they do not have a flip cover :/

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based on one of the non-flip models, OD is 34.05146675mm

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34mm

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which is 1.340609 inches.. I am guessing I can make it 1-5/16" ID

wicked oak Aug 1, 2018, 3:56 PM

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dont use freedom units for science

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too easy to fuck up stuff

mighty carbon Aug 1, 2018, 3:57 PM

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eeh, for that purpose it's fine.. I am not making gear box or a mechanism that needs precision

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plus while PLA isn't too flexible, it flexes enough to allow a few mm play

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if I were to mill it out of aluminum, then sure, I'd have to go +.005"/-.000" on the ID

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still using freedom units nonetheless 😉

mighty carbon Aug 1, 2018, 5:30 PM

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@wicked oak https://www.blendernation.com/2018/08/01/fbx-bundle-1-2-0-is-out/

BlenderNation

FBX Bundle 1.2.0 is out - BlenderNation

renderhjs writes: This is my second Blender addon called 'FBX Bundle'. It splits selected objects into bundles and allow to export each bundle as its own FBX file. That's the core functionality, everything else is just to support that workflow. Features: Batch Export selected...

eager pine Aug 1, 2018, 6:07 PM

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has anyone tested the htc vive pro against a project in unreal?

mighty carbon Aug 1, 2018, 6:17 PM

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https://uploadvr.com/vr-devs-rift-over-vive-xrdc/

UploadVR

More VR Devs Are Looking To Rift For Next Project Instead Of Vive

The Rift continues to gain ground across the developer community as recent data from an XRDC survey suggests more developers are looking to Oculu's platform over the HTC Vive.

eager pine Aug 1, 2018, 6:18 PM

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Just had a few question of precautions you have to take when moving a htc vive project to a htc vive pro project

mighty carbon Aug 1, 2018, 6:18 PM

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https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/free-paragon-assets-get-an-update

Unreal Engine

Free Paragon Assets Get an Update

The Paragon character assets, available for free on the Unreal Engine Marketplace, have been updated to include animation Blueprints.

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has anyone tried Paragon assets in VR ?

wicked oak Aug 1, 2018, 6:37 PM

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NEW ANIMATIONS????

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holy shit fucking yes

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i need animations

mighty carbon Aug 1, 2018, 7:23 PM

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https://postimg.cc/image/xy0oj4da9/

20180801_135517 — Postimage.org

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https://postimg.cc/image/odh1w9y8x/

20180801_135536 — Postimage.org

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designed and 3D printed that cover 😃 Will test tonight and if it fits, will 3D print 2 more 😄

mighty carbon Aug 1, 2018, 7:45 PM

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https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-62389

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please upvote - relevant to voice interactions and VoIP on Gear VR / Go and Santa Cruz

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on the other note, wow, who would have thought ... https://www.tomshardware.com/news/pimax-8k-headset-gtx-1070,37538.html

Tom's Hardware

Pimax Concedes GTX 1070 Not Powerful Enough to Drive 8K Headset

Pimax's latest backer update reveals that the company underestimated the GPU requirements to drive the Pimax 8K headset.

mighty carbon Aug 1, 2018, 10:03 PM

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yay, my 3D printed flippable cover worked !

quiet swan Aug 1, 2018, 11:04 PM

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if I started a project as 3rd person and changed the camera to first so I can see my legs, but the world was created as 3rd person project.

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can I latter on make this a VR game? or did I ruin the VR laws and code by starting it in 3rd person???

glossy agate Aug 2, 2018, 12:30 AM

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Does not matter where you start

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 1:27 AM

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finally got some turning on the spot complimented with animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YarYiZb_gc 😃

YouTube

motorsep

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dusky moon Aug 2, 2018, 7:44 AM

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Does any know if 4.20 supports DynamicRes for SteamVR ?!

jaunty shell Aug 2, 2018, 7:47 AM

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@dusky moon nope

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steamvr is the last one that doesnt support it

dusky moon Aug 2, 2018, 7:47 AM

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damn :/

fleet plume Aug 2, 2018, 8:05 AM

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@mighty carbon for some weird reason i thought you'd be printing wall mounts

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the covers are so much better though

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mind sharing the print model?

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 1:21 PM

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@fleet plume sure.. I just gotta do some tweaks first.

fleet plume Aug 2, 2018, 1:22 PM

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cool!

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 1:42 PM

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I am just gonna have to upload files to my G-Drive after work @fleet plume (~9 hrs from now)

fleet plume Aug 2, 2018, 1:42 PM

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hey no hurry

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 1:42 PM

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And you need to get dowel pins 1/8" OD x 3/4" long (I think McMaster carries those) for the hinge

fleet plume Aug 2, 2018, 1:43 PM

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i've gotta find a printing service in GER first anyway

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this is so much better then the usb3 hubs with power switches

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 1:45 PM

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what do you mean?

fleet plume Aug 2, 2018, 1:47 PM

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disabling the oculus sensors/cameras

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you built a cover for the sensors, right?

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 1:48 PM

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covers are for sensor lens protection and to avoid someone spying on you through sensors when you aren't doing VR 😃

fleet plume Aug 2, 2018, 1:49 PM

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exactly

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 1:49 PM

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I usually just disconnect them from PC.. I never used switches on the sensors as it seems like it might interfere with the signal

fleet plume Aug 2, 2018, 1:50 PM

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same here with disconnecting; but it got on my nerves a bit recently

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 1:50 PM

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Aye, got it

fleet plume Aug 2, 2018, 1:51 PM

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but also not happy with vive and spinning sensors so looking to dev on rift again

jaunty shell Aug 2, 2018, 1:51 PM

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@fleet plume why ?

fleet plume Aug 2, 2018, 1:51 PM

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i don't like the spinning sound from the base stations

jaunty shell Aug 2, 2018, 1:51 PM

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🤔

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the high pitched noise ?

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 1:52 PM

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@fleet plume https://www.sculpteo.com/en/

Sculpteo | Online 3D Printing Service for your 3D design

Sculpteo offers everyone rapid online 3D printing services. Get your parts in a few days thanks to our professional 3D printers!

fleet plume Aug 2, 2018, 1:52 PM

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yes

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and every time i close ue4 the steam vr dashboard starts up

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 1:52 PM

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sounds like German service

fleet plume Aug 2, 2018, 1:52 PM

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and takes gpu resources

jaunty shell Aug 2, 2018, 1:52 PM

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dunno my brain kinda muted it after a lot of usage hours

fleet plume Aug 2, 2018, 1:52 PM

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which speeds up fans

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 1:52 PM

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here is another one https://i.materialise.com/en

Online 3D Printing Service | i.materialise

i.materialise is an online 3D printing service, community and marketplace. Upload your 3D design and choose from over 100 different finishes and materials.

fleet plume Aug 2, 2018, 1:52 PM

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so i get twice the noise

jaunty shell Aug 2, 2018, 1:52 PM

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you can disable steamVR starting on app launch

fleet plume Aug 2, 2018, 1:53 PM

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i did

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but it starts after closing the vr app

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which is so weird

jaunty shell Aug 2, 2018, 1:53 PM

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🤔

fleet plume Aug 2, 2018, 1:53 PM

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^

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thanks for the links @mighty carbon

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 1:54 PM

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np

cosmic shoal Aug 2, 2018, 2:26 PM

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I have yet to hear a single noise from my base stations

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nor has anybody that has been at my house

warm lion Aug 2, 2018, 2:28 PM

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Anyone here working with the Oculus go? Are you experiencing the "back" button no staying pressed? When I print out the firing events for pressed and released for "Motion Controller (R) Face Button 1" I see both events fire when I press in and hold the button down. It doesn't wait for the button to release before firing the release event.

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 2:40 PM

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@fleet plume I think I nailed it - everything fits nice and snug now (mostly was concerned with the hinge as on the first cover it was not as snug as I wanted for it to be)

fleet plume Aug 2, 2018, 3:53 PM

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@mighty carbon hype 😛

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 4:18 PM

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https://www.oculus.com/blog/research-reflections-facebook-reality-labs-unveils-new-mirror-reconstruction-technology-ahead-of-siggraph-2018/

Research Reflections: Facebook Reality Labs Unveils New Mirror Rec...

As the fields of virtual and augmented reality continue to advance, researchers, developers, and content creators alike are tasked with finding ways to improve computer vision and graphics in their quest toward more immersive models of the world—whether real or imagined. Wh...

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interesting

rocky latch Aug 2, 2018, 7:17 PM

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Hey guys[

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Has anybody here had problems with oculus Audio when passing thru OculusVRCValidator?

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Mine says that audio won't be played thru oculus when windows defaultDevice is something else, although it says on oculus docs that enabling oculus plugin on UE4 should be enough to make that redirection automatically

warm lion Aug 2, 2018, 7:32 PM

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Anyone know hot to move the position of the oculus go controller/ gear vr? It acts as if it is attached to an elbows setup position on the right side. If I wanted to move the position of this elbow how would I do that? I don't see any functions that pull off of the motion controller component

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 7:38 PM

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@warm lion you don't move it, the elbow that is. It's a virtual model of your arm to cope with 3DoF

warm lion Aug 2, 2018, 7:54 PM

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@mighty carbon There's no way to adjust it?

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It seems like you should be able to allow the user to specify where they want that positioned and the length of it

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Everyone has different sized arms

granite jacinth Aug 2, 2018, 7:58 PM

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What's the Oculus update about?'

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firmware also

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 8:01 PM

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maybe in C++, but I dot't think you can do it in BP (and I know nothing about C++)

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also, it's 3DoF controller.. I don' think people care much if it matches their physical arm

warm lion Aug 2, 2018, 8:02 PM

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It's okay I'll look through the code. *there are other considerations besides location and length, for design purposes it is good to know the root location from where that is pivoting/ rotating

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 8:03 PM

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IMO it's the last thing to think about 😃 More important is good content and performance considerations. You can perfectly match controller's location to physical arm and have crappy game/experience - people are not going to praise you for matching their arm, trust me 😄

sturdy coral Aug 2, 2018, 9:18 PM

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@frigid delta are you enabling VR after starting? You have to enable it prior to starting

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check

bool FAudioDevice::CanUseVRAudioDevice()```

what it does is if the project or commandline didn't start the project in VR (bStartInVR in ini or -vr on commandline), it will initially return false and result in the system device being used

mighty carbon Aug 2, 2018, 10:25 PM

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@fleet plume there ya go https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BTQzi1AhE0S3iCdTF-p-JLl9adwRsofw

Google Docs

Rift_Sensor_Cover.zip

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STL and Solidworks 2016 files

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if anyone needs to 3D print Rift sensor covers (flippable; require you to press in 1/8" OD x 3/4" long dowel pin) - link is above

granite jacinth Aug 2, 2018, 10:48 PM

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Ah. Was wondering what you were all talking about with covers.

north verge Aug 3, 2018, 1:23 AM

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I need help getting the VR template to work in my arch viz project. You can look around with the headset but the teleportation or the grabbing wont work. I am using an HTC vive and I tested it in the VR test level and it worked there but I don't understand why it won't work in my level. I set up a navigation volume and placed a motion controller pawn and the gamemode is default. What could be causing this? Thanks in advance.

daring mural Aug 3, 2018, 1:55 AM

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@north verge Not sure what you mean by 'game mode is default', as in you're using the same game mode used in the demo level?

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Check the world settings details panel and set the game mode there to match the one set in the demo level just to be safe. Then, place down a 'Player Start' object instead of the pawn in the level.

north verge Aug 3, 2018, 2:35 AM

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By default I meant that I didn't the alter the gamemode to something else and yes, it is set to the same one as the demo. I did as you said, I removed the pawn and placed the Player Start, and it spawns in with no hands, just the HMD looking around. Ive tried copying the pawn directly from the demo and even that doesnt work so I have no idea why it is not working. I've been trying different things all day and have no idea what is causing it at this point.

fleet plume Aug 3, 2018, 8:46 AM

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@mighty carbon thanks a lot!

mighty carbon Aug 3, 2018, 11:28 AM

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Np 😊

uncut silo Aug 3, 2018, 12:20 PM

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Guyz

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How can I reset/teleport the camera to the specific X and Y?

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Set world location of the camera component doesn't work

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Reset Poisition and Orientation works BUT it sets Z to 0 so the camera stucks in the floor

placid rampart Aug 3, 2018, 12:37 PM

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@uncut silo are you trying to make a teleport functionality?

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If so, you should teleport the owning actor, not the camera.

uncut silo Aug 3, 2018, 12:39 PM

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Nope, I'm trying to align the player's view with the avatar while he resets effectors transforms

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I just want to move the camera to the center of the characters scene component without being reset to Z=0

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And the camera is already the child of that scene component

potent gust Aug 3, 2018, 12:55 PM

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@fleet veldt Did you manage to get your controller jitter issue resolved?

runic cedar Aug 3, 2018, 2:50 PM

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Hello I have a question
how can I create two mobile levels one mobile default level and another level Gear VR? And switch levels from default mobile and Gear VR? Coz I have trouble like black screen, camera seen on the mobile level, or when I start VR mode and with a black screen.

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Maybe someone knows about it? How create a level and gear VR levels?

potent gust Aug 3, 2018, 3:02 PM

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How exactly are you planning on using a GearVR app on standard mobile?

runic cedar Aug 3, 2018, 3:05 PM

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I want to have level mobile and if the user wants to play VR mode then click on the button for VR and he could use Gear VR in that apk file.

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or make project with AR and GearVR levels

mighty carbon Aug 3, 2018, 3:28 PM

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it doesn't work like that

sturdy coral Aug 3, 2018, 3:28 PM

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@uncut silo never move the camera directly, make a scene component parent and move that. Most people name it something like VRRoot

mighty carbon Aug 3, 2018, 3:29 PM

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Gear VR apps can only run in VR.. You can't have non-VR android app that switches to VR on the fly

runic cedar Aug 3, 2018, 3:29 PM

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okey thanks..

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i need to make two projects mobile and VR..

mighty carbon Aug 3, 2018, 3:31 PM

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just make two projects, one for VR and one is for plain Android phone

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controls are different, mechanics are most likely to be different, deploying to each platform requires different project settings

runic cedar Aug 3, 2018, 3:32 PM

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now i understand

mighty carbon Aug 3, 2018, 3:32 PM

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you can't just cram 2 entirely different platforms into one project

runic cedar Aug 3, 2018, 3:33 PM

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I realized very thank you, I spent a lot of time for this, thank you!

uncut silo Aug 3, 2018, 3:34 PM

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@sturdy coral I do that. The problem is I don’t know how to reset the camera position to the center of that scene component. Or you are talking about the scene with cam inside the root scene?

placid rampart Aug 3, 2018, 3:56 PM

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Yes

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You set a SceneComponent as the root of the pawn and parent of the camera. Then you move this scene component, not the camera.

uncut silo Aug 3, 2018, 3:59 PM

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@placid rampart didn't thought about it that way, thanks! Will try it 😉

fleet veldt Aug 3, 2018, 4:35 PM

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@potent gust I resolved it by going back to 4.19.x However I haven't tried in the actual non-preview release version of 4.20 to see if it's working there.

potent gust Aug 3, 2018, 4:36 PM

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@fleet veldt But i'm on 4.19.2 built from source from the Oculus source. Having the same issue

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I've also checked their repo, seems like they havent updated anything post my download

fleet veldt Aug 3, 2018, 4:37 PM

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Oh o.O that's surprising.. though I will say I was on 4.19.2 binary from Epic so it would have slightly different (older) Oculus Plugin / API versions that the Oculus source 4.19.2

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I think there's a table out there where they show the version of the Oculus API/Plugin in Epic's branch and Oculus branch

quiet swan Aug 3, 2018, 4:49 PM

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Ok I need advice. I have been working on a third person set up and made the camera first person. I did this so I could see the body of the character. I would like to also be able to make this a vr game. Should I just stop now and start all over in a vr mode set up with motion controllers or can I still make it vr?

mighty carbon Aug 3, 2018, 4:51 PM

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motivational story https://uploadvr.com/quivr-early-access-35000/

UploadVR

How QuiVr Sold 35,000 Copies In Early Access

Archery game QuiVr recently emerged from Early Access after more than two years of development. During that time, the game sold roughly 35,000 copies on Steam.

granite jacinth Aug 3, 2018, 5:31 PM

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Never even heard of that game

potent gust Aug 3, 2018, 5:43 PM

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@fleet veldt Where exactly did you download from? The UE4 source at Epics github repo? Where did you get the oculus library from?

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@quiet swan You can create 2 pawns, one for VR and one for PC. Posses the correct pawn in the player controller based on the platform.

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You can migrate the VRPawn from the VR template as a template and use that if you feel it would be easier for you

wicked oak Aug 3, 2018, 5:46 PM

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@mighty carbon it did becouse quivr was one of the absolute first batch of games

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and it started with a free demo

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wich pretty much EVERYONE downloaded

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35.000 sales, with that kind of launch, is an absolute disaster

mighty carbon Aug 3, 2018, 5:47 PM

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huh?

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I wish I had such disaster.. Do the math..

wicked oak Aug 3, 2018, 5:51 PM

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ive sold 6.000-7000, dunno the exact number

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the fact that ive sold a 5th of him is incredibly telling of how the pc market is

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his game is way more popular than anything i make will ever be

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it was everywhere, and nearly all people with a vive downloaded it

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ffs it was one of the pioneers of bows and wave shooters, it eventually had tons of clones.

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selling 35k is definitely way on the lower end i thought that game would sell

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but honestly, raw data is 150k...

mighty carbon Aug 3, 2018, 5:54 PM

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$700,000 x .7 = $490,000 x .65 = $318,500 - $30,000 = $288,500 / 2 = $144,250 per person

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I'd say it's quite good

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and if he was the only dev, that would be even awesome

fleet plume Aug 3, 2018, 5:55 PM

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whats the .65 ?

mighty carbon Aug 3, 2018, 5:55 PM

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35% to taxes

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probably less, but just rough estimate

fleet plume Aug 3, 2018, 5:55 PM

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72k/year after tax is not too bad

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but

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you'd have to invest it again for the next title

wicked oak Aug 3, 2018, 5:56 PM

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keep in mind this was one of the most popular vive games

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of all

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and frontpaged in steam essentially 24/7

fleet plume Aug 3, 2018, 5:56 PM

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i've never heard of it

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and own vive ~2 years

mighty carbon Aug 3, 2018, 5:57 PM

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the point here is that 2 guys (technically one guy) made VR game and, despite that most here didn't even know about the game, made some decent money

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I've never seen any PR for it

fleet plume Aug 3, 2018, 5:57 PM

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not trying to belittle their success

mighty carbon Aug 3, 2018, 5:58 PM

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I saw the game, but never really cared to buy it

fleet plume Aug 3, 2018, 5:58 PM

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they probably also not worked two straight years fulltime on it

mighty carbon Aug 3, 2018, 5:59 PM

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it's basically their supplemental income (unless the dev quit his day job)

fleet plume Aug 3, 2018, 5:59 PM

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if it was a side project, the "salary" would be amazing

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though hard to judge from the outside

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(haven't read the full article)

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but if you invest 30k of your own money, it's most certainly more than a side project

mighty carbon Aug 3, 2018, 6:00 PM

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15k per person, they split the investment

fleet plume Aug 3, 2018, 6:00 PM

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i can live a year off of 15k

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frugally

mighty carbon Aug 3, 2018, 6:01 PM

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I don't know anyone with that kind of cash sitting in the bank o.O

fleet plume Aug 3, 2018, 6:01 PM

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so i'd consider it actually a serious investment

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for 1-2 sized dev teams

placid rampart Aug 3, 2018, 6:02 PM

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Hey guys, sorry to interrupt but i have a question about hands.

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Like, how do you guys implement the different size of object to hand animation?

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Things like where the index finder should be on a gun, where different guns have different trigger location.

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How do you guys work around that?

wicked oak Aug 3, 2018, 6:07 PM

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i can also live 1 year from 15k easy

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thats twice spanish min wage

mighty carbon Aug 3, 2018, 6:11 PM

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oh, it's a tower defense game.. odd 😦

fleet veldt Aug 3, 2018, 6:21 PM

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@placid rampart if you're able to download the r

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robo recall source under the moding section

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you can see how they attach place holder controllers on objects where the hands should grip them.

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then they do an invers transform and move the hands to those positions when the objects are "grabbed"

placid rampart Aug 3, 2018, 6:24 PM

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@fleet veldt will take a look at that. Thank you so much!

potent gust Aug 3, 2018, 7:03 PM

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@fleet veldt Where exactly did you download from? The UE4 source at Epics github repo? Where did you get the oculus library from?

granite jacinth Aug 3, 2018, 7:03 PM

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@mighty carbon @wicked oak It's definitely interesting. Especially considering his launch day sales

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We were double his. Also, if the trend continues (without sales and major updates), and no psvr, we'll hit that in less than a year.

wicked oak Aug 3, 2018, 7:05 PM

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hey, HLOD clustering is like 9999% faster now

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it just clustered my most complex level in 1 second

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the last time i tried, back in the 4.14 days, it literally took 2 hours

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becouse the upgrade to 4.19 fucking my HLODs

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and its nuked my drawcall numbers

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2500 drawcalls is too bad even for PS4

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time to see how the new proxy lod tool looks

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now gotta go play wow becouse this shit will be thinking for a couple hours