I have talked to WyrmSlayer whom has had lots of contact with Andrew (adoral84). He has not herd from him for some time now, and do not know why.alekki wrote:I hate asking this, but are you still developing the mod? Can we still expect to get a version that works with the official VR mode? I'd love to hear some news, even if it's bad news.
A crying shame, as the hydra implementation looked to be spectacular.
Apologies on the long silence, for a number of the reasons mentioned by @BOLL I wasn't able to dive into this project like I wanted to over pretty much the whole summer. I decided to lay low until I had time to make some real progress and felt confident that things were shaping up into something that was going to be a big enough improvement over the baseline HL2 + rift implementation to be worth pursuing. I'm looking forward to sharing more in the near future.lmimmfn wrote:it was fantastic, but i gave up on this as for the official version, this mod is so much better, however out of the box and no hassle verses old version/verieo and loads of messing around, out of the box wins. I really want this mod with the official half life vr version, but i couldnt hold back and wait so im enjoying it now out of the box.
donkaradiablo wrote:...I'm waiting for adoral's mod to implement HydraDeck + independent aiming, get it integrated with official rift support, making it the perfect game.
Best rift-related news I've heard in a while 
great to have you back man, i hope i didnt come across as too negative, its not my fault, its because your mod is soo goodadoral84 wrote:Apologies on the long silence, for a number of the reasons mentioned by @BOLL I wasn't able to dive into this project like I wanted to over pretty much the whole summer. I decided to lay low until I had time to make some real progress and felt confident that things were shaping up into something that was going to be a big enough improvement over the baseline HL2 + rift implementation to be worth pursuing. I'm looking forward to sharing more in the near future.lmimmfn wrote:it was fantastic, but i gave up on this as for the official version, this mod is so much better, however out of the box and no hassle verses old version/verieo and loads of messing around, out of the box wins. I really want this mod with the official half life vr version, but i couldnt hold back and wait so im enjoying it now out of the box.
donkaradiablo wrote:...I'm waiting for adoral's mod to implement HydraDeck + independent aiming, get it integrated with official rift support, making it the perfect game.
,while the vereio solution was good enough for the time, fighting with vereio and the hydras just took too much time for a sit down in the evening after work and chill, so i had to move to the official version for simplicity( i know yes dev kit, just saying ), REALLY( understatement ) looking forward to your updated version with official support, in fact i wont give a crap about GTA V if you have something in the next while .Not at all, the difficulties around setup and configuration were an unfortunately reality for the previous versions and something I was bent on improving with this latest version (it should be technically easier to get up and going than valve's HL2 given how many bugs and settings tweaks I made).lmimmfn wrote: great to have you back man, i hope i didnt come across as too negative, its not my fault, its because your mod is soo good
Really glad youre updating it, its very much appreciated, btw hydradeck impl would be fookin awsome haha
WTF on reddit, you mad evil genuis, ty so much.adoral84 wrote:Apologies on the long silence, for a number of the reasons mentioned by @BOLL I wasn't able to dive into this project like I wanted to over pretty much the whole summer. I decided to lay low until I had time to make some real progress and felt confident that things were shaping up into something that was going to be a big enough improvement over the baseline HL2 + rift implementation to be worth pursuing. I'm looking forward to sharing more in the near future.lmimmfn wrote:it was fantastic, but i gave up on this as for the official version, this mod is so much better, however out of the box and no hassle verses old version/verieo and loads of messing around, out of the box wins. I really want this mod with the official half life vr version, but i couldnt hold back and wait so im enjoying it now out of the box.
donkaradiablo wrote:...I'm waiting for adoral's mod to implement HydraDeck + independent aiming, get it integrated with official rift support, making it the perfect game.
sorry i missed your reply and seen the reddit post before i updated here, wow, downloading now, thanks manm, thanks so much for your work, especially if youre exhausted working on it, we very much appreciate it, downloading now( well 10 mins ago lol )adoral84 wrote:Not at all, the difficulties around setup and configuration were an unfortunately reality for the previous versions and something I was bent on improving with this latest version (it should be technically easier to get up and going than valve's HL2 given how many bugs and settings tweaks I made).lmimmfn wrote: great to have you back man, i hope i didnt come across as too negative, its not my fault, its because your mod is soo good
Really glad youre updating it, its very much appreciated, btw hydradeck impl would be fookin awsome haha
Here's the latest, I *really* hope everything works smoothing because I'm completely exhausted after an incredibly long weekend of bug smashing
http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments ... _rift_and/
oh yeah:adoral84 wrote:Apologies on the long silence, for a number of the reasons mentioned by @BOLL I wasn't able to dive into this project like I wanted to over pretty much the whole summer. I decided to lay low until I had time to make some real progress and felt confident that things were shaping up into something that was going to be a big enough improvement over the baseline HL2 + rift implementation to be worth pursuing. I'm looking forward to sharing more in the near future.lmimmfn wrote:it was fantastic, but i gave up on this as for the official version, this mod is so much better, however out of the box and no hassle verses old version/verieo and loads of messing around, out of the box wins. I really want this mod with the official half life vr version, but i couldnt hold back and wait so im enjoying it now out of the box.
donkaradiablo wrote:...I'm waiting for adoral's mod to implement HydraDeck + independent aiming, get it integrated with official rift support, making it the perfect game.
Multiplayer is in progress and with any luck won't require much more that porting over the changes from the single player project. I'm really looking forward to some proper VR deathmatch as I'm pretty much played out on the HL2 single player content after a ridiculous number of playthroughs over the last yearWiredEarp wrote:@ adoral84: I gave this mod a shot last night and was very impressed. You've done a great job with the fully moveable weapons etc! This is possibly the best VR playable game I've tried now.
Is there a way to get this mod going in multiplayer? I'd really love to play some deathmatch using both my Rifts.
I fired up HL2VR and entered: mt_control_mode 1CylonSurfer wrote:Are there any instructions which go with this mod? I tried it last night and was seriously impressed but couldn't get my Hydras to calibrate after placing the left one on my chest. basically the camera ends up being too high and I'm unable to walk through door ways.
Cheers.
And for walking I use the PS3 Navigation Controller in my left hand. It works great using a Rocketfish BT Adapter + XInput Wrapper. You don't need MotionInJoy drivers (which suck). I followed these instructions EXACTLY to use the PS3 Nav Controller in HL2VR:
Thanks, I'll take a look at this issue but can't feel the effect myself so it may be hard for me to correct.PatimPatam wrote:Stunning job adoral, thank you so much for all your efforts; this sets the bar on how VR integration should be done, and also on control schemes for positional tracking and FPS.
One little thing, if you have followed the HL2 "official" Rift support thread i guess you've seen many complains about the pre-warping being off. For me it's really annoying and i believe it could be the reason why some people get worse VR sickness playing HL2 than in other games. Unfortunately Valve has not been able to fix this so far, Joe added a new var called "oculus_use_ovr_distortion", but that didn't help much really.
That's as far as I've gotten as well, things generally look great but things like rubble, ivy etc don't load and I haven't found the resources.Ashok wrote:Has anyone found a way to use Cinematic Mod 2013 with HL2VR? I used GCFScape to extract the contents of '2_CM_base_dir.vpk' from CM2013, and I copied the contents to /halflife-vr/ without overwriting any files. Hi-res textures seem to work fine, but many things are missing like decals on walls, lighting, foliage, updated models, etc.
Yes i know this is quite weird, apparently Joe couldn't see the problem either. Also it doesn't seem to depend on the lense type or eye-lens distance..adoral84 wrote:Thanks, I'll take a look at this issue but can't feel the effect myself so it may be hard for me to correct
) of the first pass was that the weapons were still shooting from eye center the same way they normally do in source games. This is corrected now (as it was in the older versions of the mod). I'm not sure if this information is useful or not, but just for fun I tried copying your mod into the CM2013/hl2 folder without overwriting anything except the /bin/ folder. I also created a new gameinfo.txt file with both your and FAKEFACTORY's custom lines of code. Decoupled aiming actually WORKS in CM2013 but doing this breaks the game for some reason. Lots of scripted events don't seem to trigger, gun models are broken, and Gordon's arm is attached to the weapons which makes calibration virtually impossible. I posted a video below:adoral84 wrote: For those who've played it is there anything jumping out that needs attention?
You have been very, VERY busy! :Oadoral84 wrote:I've got a big batch of improvements on the way including:
- Fixed shoot vectors - the dirty little secret (or maybe obvious part
- Related to above, flashlights and crosshairs also fixed
- Fixed muzzle flashes and tracers
- Reworked picking up objects so you can better control/examine them
- Shell ejections fixed on all weapons and added to the pistol
- New pistol animations
- Weapon origins adjusted to center on gordon's right hand across all models for consistency
- FOV fixes for all cutscenes ( the intro to alyx is now actually pretty decent )
- Rebound the calibrate to a mapping that actually works on UK keyboard setups
I'm hoping barring any crazy issues to also include a fix for eye contact problems with NPCs when using positional body tracking and some new hud work.
I wish I could provide some input, but frustratingly I've not had a chance to play yet - I've just not had time. HL2VR is top of the list, though!For those who've played it is there anything jumping out that needs attention?
Nice, if you keep the weapon models (really only the view models should matter - v_* folders) that should fix the crazy gordon arms. I'll give it a shot and see how it works, I was able to play through quite a bit of CM12 with the older version of my mod doing the same thing.Ashok wrote:I'm not sure if this information is useful or not, but just for fun I tried copying your mod into the CM2013/hl2 folder without overwriting anything except the /bin/ folder. I also created a new gameinfo.txt file with both your and FAKEFACTORY's custom lines of code. Decoupled aiming actually WORKS in CM2013 but doing this breaks the game for some reason. Lots of scripted events don't seem to trigger, gun models are broken, and Gordon's arm is attached to the weapons which makes calibration virtually impossible. I posted a video below:adoral84 wrote: For those who've played it is there anything jumping out that needs attention?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hruYrge3hGw
Nice, that actually worked. Copying /halflife-vr/models/weapons to:adoral84 wrote:Nice, if you keep the weapon models (really only the view models should matter - v_* folders) that should fix the crazy gordon arms.
That's really odd that it breaks scripted events, and you shouldn't need to modify the gameinfo.txt, in fact that may have caused the scenes to not load correctly. Either way, once I get EP1 & 2 all sorted out I'll see if I can sort out CM compatibility, the lighting improvements are really great in the rift.Ashok wrote:Nice, that actually worked. Copying /halflife-vr/models/weapons to:adoral84 wrote:Nice, if you keep the weapon models (really only the view models should matter - v_* folders) that should fix the crazy gordon arms.
/CM2013_MOD/hl2/custom/1_CM_looseFiles/models/weapons
fixed Gordon's crazy arms. Also, I don't think its necessary to modify gameinfo.txt. Unfortunately, CM2013 + HL2VR is still unplayable because overwriting /bin/client.dll and /bin/server.dll breaks scripted events. For now I'm just going to stick with the vanilla visuals + HL2VR, but it seems both mods are very close to playing nicely together.
Glad you're enjoying it, I'll definitely be bringing back the crowbar flailing with the next release. As far as gui work in the source engine for calibration etc, I'd like to do that but it's not on the top of the list but I'll try to put together a more detailed guide with pictures. The vc++ runtime dependencies are so annoying, I'll see if I can easily detect that as well.Ziggurat wrote: I hope that you will regain the features that has regressed since the las version though. This is not a demand list, but humble request. I wish that in a future update you will re-implement collision with the crowbar, and the laser sight. Something else I hope to see is calibration with graphical explenation, a la now hold the right wand in a certain way and press the something button. I also hope to see an out of game control panel with options that has explanations, example a checkbox for Oculus VR, and radio buttons for the different control schemes. And for the installer please add a check for if you have C++ Runtime files, and fetch those from Microsoft if not or even add them to the installer if thats legal. (Edit: Also I wish for SteamOS support because of awesome)
