SDK v0.3.1 Unity 4 Pro Integration discussion

"cybereality" wrote:
@excelynx: I have filed a bug for the image effect / black screen issue.

Thanks, cybereality! I really appreciate you looking into it and the effort you're putting into fixing all the issues with the preview. :)

I haven't been able to nail down exactly what the cause is, but I can consistently repro it in my test scene. If I have a scene saved with an OVRPlayerContoller that works (i.e. dropping Tonemapping or other Image Effects onto one of the two cameras doesn't break that camera) and then delete the OVRPlayerController, drag a new one in from the prefab - that new one is then broken (the Image Effects black out the camera). They're otherwise identical. The only thing I could think of is that there might be a value that's getting serialized or saved somewhere behind the scenes that shouldn't be. I don't know if that helps any.

Has anyone tried to get any NGUI and or Daikon Forge working? I messed with it for a few minutes and noticed rendering to a texture the old way was broken. I was going to spend some time with it this weekend to see how things go.

Yikes.. wish I read this thread before trying it out.

Took me about 2 hours to figure out it was the image effects blanking the camera. I finally got it running, but for some reason 1 eye was lower than the other and my framerate was hovering around 40 instead of 60. Even after deleting my player controller and placing the new one in. Ain't nobody got time for dat.

The OVRdevice script also seemed to delete itself from my original camera controller and add an extra OVRcamera to the left eye.

Hopefully by release I can just do a simple replace as it's will be a huge pain for me to go into every scene replace the prefabs, reattach all of the image effects etc, then change all of the references in my code to point to the new instances.

Wish I could devote more time to testing for you, but I'm trying to develop my own software :P

So has anybody been able to successfully integrate the new sdk into their project yet?

I was holding off from diving in until I heard something more encouraging but I'm really itching to check out Carmack's new work. ;)

"vajra3d" wrote:
So has anybody been able to successfully integrate the new sdk into their project yet?

I was holding off from diving in until I heard something more encouraging but I'm really itching to check out Carmack's new work. ;)

The Time Warping is not currently supported in the Unity SDK, I think it requires lower level acces to the renderer which isn't exposed. I'm guessing they will have to get Unity to open some thing up which most likely will require a new version of Unity as well? I'm sure there is a plan to address this, I doubt they would have went down this path without knowing how it was going to be solved for Unity.

I managed to get it working in my ZVR demo but it was a troublesome process and the end result looks worse and runs slower. It is a 'preview' release I think it's best to either create a test project to play around with it to see some of the new features but I would hold off integrating it into your project just yet.

I can't use it for Lunar Flight as it doesn't allow for multiple layered OVR camera controllers yet, Lunar Flight uses one for the cockpit and one for the world.

Thanks for the info sh0v0r... I appreciate that. I was totally unaware of the timewarp code not being available. I'm definitely going to hold off for the next update then.

BTW, If anyone else is interested in checking out Carmack's new timewarp stuff then you may want to watch this video from eVRydayVR which does an excellent job of covering it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfXDQMLdJLo

Accessing the Acceleration data crashes Unity. It seems the number of arguments has changed between versions...

Also +1 for Eye Position/Root Position not doing anything. Neck position still works.

"zalo" wrote:
Accessing the Acceleration data crashes Unity. It seems the number of arguments has changed between versions...

Can you post the line of code that you are using that causes the crash?

Thanks, I've filed a bug report.