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At this point it's been while and it's not been supported as far as I know. I'd recommend looking at other free alternatives or perhaps paid packages like Flatkit.

@@JamesArndt yes, I just found FlatKit, it looks really good, I think I'm going to use that instead

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Thanks, will do!

They should have gone with unreal engine 5

Out of curiosity, how old are these games and are they graphically intensive?

@@JamesArndt Mostly from the 2020 - 2022 era. All kinds of games from modern (usually with reduced settings) to retro style. In Kao the Kangaroo I had to reduce the settings but still looks good to me. I have stuff like Death Stranding, Horizon Chase Turbo, DARQ, retro dungeon type games and dozens of others and they work fine. All very playable with the right settings. I have a 2TB M.2 drive (installed in the spare M.2 slot with Win10) 32GB and GPU set to use 8GB.

@@redleader7988 Thank you for the info. I'm kinda surprised Death Stranding would run on the VCS (even with reduced quality settings). This is pretty hopeful to hear. Sounds like you've upgraded the storage, the RAM and the GPU. Is there some form of special OS version or setting within the OS that unlocks more memory for the GPU? As an aside, if you're interested in following progress of the game I'll be putting out on the VCS, here's a Discord invite. discord.gg/bc7k3ygF

@@JamesArndt Death Stranding runs very well. What I did was set my UMA frame buffer size to 8MB, which seems to increase the available to the GPU according to Task Manager. I probably need to look more into that setting to see what all it does. I used the following video as a guide. The bios settings are about 20 minutes into the video: czcams.com/video/WgROVDIhdAY/video.html

@@JamesArndt I'm very glad to hear that your game is coming to the VCS! This will very welcome news to the community. Will this be an exclusive to the VCS? I joined the Discord.

Not sure I follow. I haven't finished. I haven't even started the development phase and finishing would be a ways away. This is only the pre-production phase. Key mappings are known button maps to common input devices. They need to be determined so that when I create those input maps in Unity I have that information. How am I able to do that in advance? Experience having mapped inputs from these input devices to character controllers several times before. I know the common button mappings and I already have the character controller asset. If any of those need to change at any time, they can. It's completely flexible and modifiable if any kind of change or replacement is needed. Once I start white boxing the levels, the experimentation will begin. Game feel and the feel of combat will require heavy play testing to get just right. Depending on the findings those design documents will change and update. They are living documents.

thank you for the great reply, @@JamesArndt. However, that was not my actual point, that was just an example I gave - of the situation where waterfall prototyping is used instead of 'agile' prototyping - wherein a game is designed in such detail that it has no 'growth potential' (as in weighed down by heavy 'promises' (self-made expectations for overly specific 'waterfall'-designed products) (almost like being burdened by a large codebase) even in the alpha or pre alpha stage

@@nathanielblairofkew1082 Well it's important to note that I am developing under the agile approach. I have a backlog, am using stories and the whole deal. I'm using Trello to manage some of this. It's agile scrum and I'm working in two week sprints. Everything can grow or retract as needed, features, mechanics are not set in stone and very flexible based on the dynamics of playtesting and prototyping. My focus is on iteration and flexibility. All of the documentation is a set of guideposts to keep me on a general path. The specifics are more like notes that serve my poor memory. My focus is primarily on the core pillars of this game. Everything I do has to contribute to those core pillars. This is what will keep me on track, help me keep a timeline and result in my ability to ship. I've attempted much looser, open-ended development before, on numerous projects...and it's never, ever gone well for me. It simply does not work for me and my way of thinking around problems. You asked why I would document input key mappings? I would ask, why wouldn't I? I need to establish what those would be so I can have a baseline to even iterate from, that I can be flexible from. You have to start somewhere at a baseline. I know my platforms, and I know the controllers associated with them and knowing button mappings allows me to create a set of Unity input actions based on that information. I think it would be impossible to even set up without documenting and knowing what those should be. I can't memorize them all, and I'm not going to make guesses when setting these up...so it makes logical sense I would document those somewhere. I would recommend you check out a book. It's called, Level Up! The Guide to Great Video Game Design by Scott Rogers. I used this to teach game design to my students. There are some basics around designing a game that you can find in those pages. They don't just apply to small team devs like myself (less than ten people), but they also apply to larger studio teams too. These are fundamentals around what it takes to build a game and build a game that is fun and engaging. I think too many ignore those aspects and that's probably why only a few games out there truly become hit games. We don't live in a world where one can reasonably expect to have a hit game, and they just go off of instinct, personal preference, or just "wing it" by free-form development. That will not work for 95% of developers out there.

Sorry forgot the link to the book :) amazon.com/Level-Guide-Great-Video-Design/dp/1118877160

@@JamesArndt thanks heaps. I'll look into it. And good luck with your game! I was telling some people about it yesterday and they seemed interested in the concept :)

Who is 'Dex' by the way?

It’s disappointing that it’s clearly not meant for your average gamer/consumer. That and the price is absolutely ludicrous, out of reach for most except enthusiasts and well-funded developers.

@@JamesArndt Exactly and wait for Apple to come back with more ridiculous accessories and prices for this headset in the coming months 😶

In what world is an M2 not capable of rendering 3D models and immersive MR apps? Of course you wont run AAA game titles with realtime raytracing on it, but its more than capable to render 3D models. Everything they render in the Vision Pro is 3D models, so I am not sure what you are referring to. The Meta Quest 2 uses a Snapdragon XR2, which is even slower than an M1!? Sure, it would be nice to be able to use the Vision Pro as a standalone headset with rendering from a dedicated machine and the price is ridiculous, but saying it doesn't have a capable GPU is not correct.

​@@letspretend_22Literally same thing i was going to say. Thank you for commenting. They dont know what theyre talking bout lol

It does but they have moved the repo. On the top left of the home page, the drop down can be change to 0.9 and the install page has a different git repo.

Yes, but fine on 2022.2 (I know this because I just ran into the same problem as you).

@@mccleod6235 Did you not get film iternal errors? i think its something wrong with the dependencies

@@dahstroyer yes with 2021.3. But it worked fine with 2022.2.

Thanks, will do!