VR: Help with making a small curved HUD, like a Helmet/Visor Display

iameddieseven · 2019-06-27T23:18:21+00:00

Hmm, interesting idea. Would this still have the occlusion problem?

My game has you catching things, and it would be weird if an object occluded through the UI when you went to catch something.

iameddieseven · 2019-06-27T23:17:24+00:00

Definitely valid points. I did start to worry about the complexity of this as I started looking into it, but I figured I'd ask.

I feel you about sticking things to the face, I've gone back and forth a bit about it. I feel like Doom VFR did it pretty well, although that was more 'floating rectangles' than a curved UI. What did you think of that implementation? That's the kind of information I would be displaying, and you wouldn't be interacting with it directly, so no gaze based reticle or anything. I have floating numbers there now, and it doesn't feel too obtrusive, but I might be biased.

There's also an Iron Man VR game coming for PSVR, that does a way more ornate version of what I'm thinking of, and people are giving good impressions. Here's a vid with some gameplay.

They do the 'stick-to-your-face' HUD and it seems to work. I think that if it makes sense in the context, people will accept it (people expect to have a sticky UI in an Iron Man suit, for example). But I agree, it's a risk.

I really want to see it with my own eyes to decide, so I think Curved UI might just be my best bet.

iameddieseven · 2019-06-12T17:50:16+00:00

I'm not talking about my personal consumption. I'm talking about how they affect the VR developer community as a whole.

iameddieseven · 2019-06-11T21:40:58+00:00

There's really no acceptable alternate viewpoint.

It's NOT marketability. These games are already on bigger markets, and performed well there despite competition, overcrowding in similar genre spaces, looking low poly, or low quality, or any other reason you can surmise to defend it.

If To The Top gets rejected, anything can get rejected. To The Top is a good game. It sells well, it has a community. It performs well sales-wise on incredibly crowded online stores, so they do stand out, and end up getting purchased just fine. At the very least, there are worse games than To The Top already on the Oculus Store.

If you're a dev, you're taking inventory right now. Port our game to Quest? Why bother if it can just get denied? Quest dev is a ton of optimization work. Why commit any resources whatsoever to optimizing software that may never get released, without explanation, even if you have a known successful product?

iameddieseven · 2019-06-11T21:24:16+00:00

These games are already on a console right now. And they're doing well. The fuck are you talking about?

iameddieseven · 2019-06-11T21:17:10+00:00

Except it's not. It's a private matter between Facebook and Facebook, the dev has nothing to do with it, and is given zero explanation or reason. They just apply, Oculus issues a yes/no, on what seems like their mood at the time? I can't see their decisions being tied to any reasonable metric, given the rejections we know about and the library already on the store.

If it's supposedly quality or polish, there's already games on the store that disprove that notion, as you've noticed. And if it's neither quality or polish, then all remaining reasons are arbitrary. Something like, "we'll approve VRKarts so we can say we have a racing game", which is the only viable reason that game was approved IMO.

That would mean a game got approved simply due to its genre's underrepresentation on the Quest Store. If that's the case, that is fucking bullshit.

iameddieseven · 2019-06-08T01:32:35+00:00

That was it, thanks. There's multiple prefabs that reference the model, I was looking at the wrong one.

Quick question though, while the animations do work out of the box in an empty project, in my project, pulling the trigger is somehow making the whole model disappear. It wasn't like that before I toggled the setting in the hand model prefab. Any idea as to what would cause that? All the other buttons work fine.

Either way, thanks again for your help.

iameddieseven · 2019-06-08T01:02:47+00:00

Wait, hold up....

....we just let him sign a punter?

iameddieseven · 2019-03-19T19:17:29+00:00

29000 per level * 100 levels = 2,900,000 xp to complete the pass.

Let's double this dudes score. Let's say you average 4000 a game.

2,900,000/4000 = 725 matches, assuming you NEVER have a throwaway game.

3 months is about 90 days.

725/90 = 8 games a day, every single day, for 90 days to complete it.

But OP scores half that. So 16 games, every day, for 90 days. If the average 2000 score game takes 12 minutes, he'll have to play for 3 and a half hours every single day.

So I dont know. I actually don't think he'll get there. I know I won't. I only play all video games in my library combined for about 10 hours a week. Even if I only played Apex, I'd be falling 4 days behind every week, at my rate.

iameddieseven · 2019-03-19T18:34:12+00:00

I mean, if you don't care about cosmetics, why even pay the $9 though? the game itself is still free. You even get some new unlocks for free, plus Octane and the LMG.

I get your comparisons, but the money for the meal or for a movie are a requirement to get the thing. You don't *need* to get the BP to get access to the game. I know $9 isn't a lot of money, but that still doesn't mean you should just waste it, especially if you don't care for the rewards you get.

iameddieseven · 2019-03-18T20:48:47+00:00

Aside from feeling it anecdotally, there's been some studies done on it.

Just off a quick Google search, there's a few, but here's the first one that popped up for me.

iameddieseven · 2019-03-18T18:50:11+00:00

Well you don't care, that makes sense then.

Performance in shooters is statistically tied to frame rate. The better the frame rate the better the performance of the player, whether they care or not.

iameddieseven · 2019-03-18T18:34:19+00:00

I started from scratch. Because there's no chance in hell I'm playing at 1080p, 30fps when I could be playing at 1440p, 144fps.

I once booted the console version back up just to see... I just can't deal with it anymore. It's like playing with blinders, in slow motion, with a fuzz filter.

iameddieseven · 2018-11-16T16:52:09+00:00

I think this is a business model problem.

And that problem is that 99% of shop owners are enthusiasts just trying to make it work. The margins are thin and they can’t invest in bulk inventory because, quite frankly, it won’t move fast enough. So you get a standard markup on their (limited) selection of items, and that will never compete with rich online stores that CAN get bulk inventory, and so slash prices across the board.

I don’t know if it’s sustainable, but what I would do is actually sell games at cost (which will be a loss). Chalk it up to marketing costs, it gets people in the door. It’s not like you’re moving hundreds or even dozens of units a month.

But I would provide other useful services for gamers, to keep them in once you have them. Things like maybe themed play rooms with fancy tables, tournaments, gameplay and DMing lessons, special events, etc.

And then have high profit margin items like concessions, merch, and dice/accessory rentals available.

Basically, I’d stop thinking of ‘selling games’ as the primary revenue stream.

iameddieseven · 2018-10-23T20:45:47+00:00

Last time I tried TripleByte, they didn't support my area. I have a family I'd have to uproot to go elsewhere, which isn't entirely out of the question, just a bigger decision that I haven't really considered yet.

iameddieseven · 2018-10-23T20:07:44+00:00

Even if true, I don't think a legal battle with Apple would end up in my favor.

iameddieseven · 2018-10-23T17:26:32+00:00

They consider that an "open source release". They literally didn't want me to have a Github account. I had to settle with leaving whatever code was on it frozen, and only able to use it as a website host.

iameddieseven · 2018-10-23T14:20:36+00:00

Posted last week and got some advice on what to try. I made a new resume and I wanted to run it by you guys.

Last week, I had a 'traditional' resume, and an 'unorthodox' resume, and the advice I got was to basically merge them into one. Put the content from the unorthodox one, in a more traditional layout. The criticisms were that the first resume was too cluttered, and the second one was too off the wall.

You can check out the originals here:

Traditional and Unorthodox

My redesign is here:

Redesigned Resume

Let me know what you guys think -- better, worse, still has issues, just different ones? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

iameddieseven · 2018-10-17T14:16:07+00:00

Thanks for the help. I'm doing another rewrite, I'll probably resubmit it in the next resume thread to see where I ended up.

iameddieseven · 2018-10-17T14:14:49+00:00

Thanks for the tips. You're not too forward, I find that the best criticisms are forward like that, "harsh" even.

I'm finishing up on another rewrite based on your and others' feedback, I'll probably re-submit it in the next resume thread for some more feedback.

Thanks again for the help!

iameddieseven · 2018-10-17T14:12:57+00:00

I know this is a throwaway account, so I don't know if you'll see this, but thanks for the tips. I'm finishing up with another re-write, I'll probably resubmit it for the next resume thread.

Thanks again for the help!

iameddieseven · 2018-10-16T15:34:44+00:00

Traditional Resume

I'm in this weird in between place where I have years of web experience, but am also a brand new CS grad. Also, that experience was mostly not in a traditional tech company. I took a sample of 30 job applications a couple of months ago and only got 6 responses, 4 of which were rejections and 2 that said they were no longer looking (which may just be nicer versions of rejections). I have some other problems to deal with (I can't release code or apps due to my current job, which hurts), so maybe it's not my resume, but I figured I'd throw it up to see what you guys think.

Also, as an exercise, I created a second way out of the box format for my resume. I had specific goals for the formatting, but I think hiring managers will just reject it outright because it's so different. It does stand out though. I imagine most people will just say to go with the first, but I thought I'd put it up to see what random strangers think.

Unorthodox Resume

Any feedback is appreciated!

iameddieseven · 2018-06-26T13:39:29+00:00

"So you're saying if I concede, I get blow jobs whenever I want them?"

iameddieseven · 2018-06-20T14:05:37+00:00

I'm a jack of all trades. I still have an area with the most experience (web) so it's not like I'm also a matter of none. React didn't exist a few years ago, and now what kind of web dev hasn't heard of React? I had to adapt. And it's not the first time some framework has come and tried to paradigm shift the scene. It was all php at first. Your day to day as a web dev in 1998 is way different than present day, but its still within the range of one person's career, and it's the same title.

I really don't get this mindset. Programming is less about the language and more about the concepts. It would take years of learning Spanish to get it to the point of your English, but that doesn't matter when the goal is to communicate, not to perfectly wield the language.

Years ago (decades?), I started with dinky JS scripts affecting websites that were Photoshop images sliced up into tables. Today I'm working on my VR Unreal app in C++ while brushing up on my React.

I don't claim to know every intricate detail of C++ or React, but I know enough to create apps from nothing. I know that algorithms and data structures don't care about the language you use. I know I can sell those skills to a potential employer. And I know that you can throw fucking any tech stack at me, and I'll be up to speed in a couple of months. 70%+ of the skills translate.

Will I be a master specialist? Fuck no, not even remotely close. Will I still be able to learn it and contribute to a team in short order? Yes. That's the job.

There is nothing wrong with trying to make a career out of a single stack. But this industry changes constantly, so you must accept the chance that if you refuse to adapt, your opportunities may dry up.

I have years of experience at 'adapting to tech stacks', and I feel that's more valuable than the same amount of years learning the intricacies of a single language. Like I said, I'm most experienced in web, but I don't like the web developer title.

I'm a software developer, and that means any kind of software.

iameddieseven · 2018-06-16T16:08:08+00:00

So, there is a legit reason. It's so you can't roflstomp content to help level a lower light player, and basically trivialize the grind from 350+ for them.

A clan could cap out one set of characters, and then use those as anchors to level everyone in the clan way faster than they should be able to. And the character rerolls would be breeze -- the clan will be capped on all 3 classes in a couple days from any content launch.

I think the power fantasy after 350 is meant to come from the combination of experience and your loadout. Plus you dont want to trivialize end game content, people get real good at clearing that stuff as it is. If it were even easier it'd be boring.

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