My initial Omni Experiences and tips (And curious about how others have solve this)
Wow, the first few days have been brutal. I may be wrong on a lot of these things, so hoping that what community is left can help me understand the issues I'm hitting, and hopefully point me to documentation so we can try to make this better (or I'll start writing up some).
From what I'm seeing, the 'controller' emulation doesn't seem to work with games which my 360 controller works fine with. I tried setting the games to use WASD so that the Omni could control them, but then realized I couldn't shoot/aim. If I turn the controller settings on, the Omni doesn't work. If I use WASD settings, I can walk in the game but can't do anything else unless I'm carrying a keyboard...I believe the thing to buy here is xpadder...I'll try this tonight and report back.
If you're going to want to try Skyrim, I recommend the vanilla one, then going to get the nexus mods to enhance it and make it work in VR. I bought the special edition, which doesn't support some of the mods that are recommended for VR. It really feels like the original has the better mod support.
VorpX is neat....spent 60 bucks on it...buy it early as they have to mail a key to you and it can take a bit (though mine did come within an hour). It'll help convert games that weren't VR (like skyrim/fallout) to a pseudo VR). I'm hoping to get fallout4 or bioshock infinite working and giving those a shot soon, as I've heard they're fun on the Omni. (Anyone else got starter game recommendations?)
Right now I feel like to play a game I have to research what might work...then tweak Vorpx, map the controls in Xpadder, and then tweak the Omni settings to work. Then when playing, wait till you jump into the game before putting on the headset. It's only been two days, and about 5 total hours of downloading, installing, tweaking, and reading...but I'm hoping to have a decent experience at some point.
Any tips/tricks/ game recommmendations? I would like to get to the point where we can have a quickstart sticky that recommends this stuff to people (or maybe it exists and I'm missing it). Also, we seriously need not only a working game list, but the tweaks/mods/etc. per game. Suteki has a bit of an older one, but I think we need even more detail than if its native/headset/vorpx/etc. to really be useful. I also appreciate the work he's been putting in...it's really the most helpful thing I"ve found so far.
From what I'm seeing, the 'controller' emulation doesn't seem to work with games which my 360 controller works fine with. I tried setting the games to use WASD so that the Omni could control them, but then realized I couldn't shoot/aim. If I turn the controller settings on, the Omni doesn't work. If I use WASD settings, I can walk in the game but can't do anything else unless I'm carrying a keyboard...I believe the thing to buy here is xpadder...I'll try this tonight and report back.
If you're going to want to try Skyrim, I recommend the vanilla one, then going to get the nexus mods to enhance it and make it work in VR. I bought the special edition, which doesn't support some of the mods that are recommended for VR. It really feels like the original has the better mod support.
VorpX is neat....spent 60 bucks on it...buy it early as they have to mail a key to you and it can take a bit (though mine did come within an hour). It'll help convert games that weren't VR (like skyrim/fallout) to a pseudo VR). I'm hoping to get fallout4 or bioshock infinite working and giving those a shot soon, as I've heard they're fun on the Omni. (Anyone else got starter game recommendations?)
Right now I feel like to play a game I have to research what might work...then tweak Vorpx, map the controls in Xpadder, and then tweak the Omni settings to work. Then when playing, wait till you jump into the game before putting on the headset. It's only been two days, and about 5 total hours of downloading, installing, tweaking, and reading...but I'm hoping to have a decent experience at some point.
Any tips/tricks/ game recommmendations? I would like to get to the point where we can have a quickstart sticky that recommends this stuff to people (or maybe it exists and I'm missing it). Also, we seriously need not only a working game list, but the tweaks/mods/etc. per game. Suteki has a bit of an older one, but I think we need even more detail than if its native/headset/vorpx/etc. to really be useful. I also appreciate the work he's been putting in...it's really the most helpful thing I"ve found so far.
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Also, I was wrong about what Virtuix released for Occulus..they did release two Travr titles for Occulus, and I got to paly training ops last night and get a feel for what a game dedicated to the Omni felt like. And holy crud was that amazing! Now I look at my Omni as almost an arcade system...it doesn't play a lot of games, but what it does play, it can be an amazing experience. I'll hopefully try Alice VR and some of the other games that are VR Native, but can use WASD, tonight.
Have you tried this one?
https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/50243/roborecall-locomotion-mod
"To get it to work make sure to double click the mod file to install, in game select mod as per video but you must select map on the right, you cannot use mods on the main story game."
I'm hoping to find a one stop shop to do modding on this thing. Joe, how do you like the walking so far?