December 2019

31 Dec

Development on Project Stardust, a Virtual Reality X-Wing simulator, has been ramping up for the past month. It is planned out and ready to be a big part of my last four months of University. If you haven't heard of this project you can read about it here. Current version as of this post is 0.71b and there is a lot to add in order to get to version 1.0. Here are my current goals for a "complete" experience, broken down into core and secondary: Core Additions   HOTAS support Ever since I published the first prototype I have been getting messages about adding HOTAS...

05:53 / Games / Project Stardust / Software Development
26 Dec

Today I am going to walk you through a bug I encountered while creating my most recent project Project Stardust. If a camera in Unity moves too far away from the origin of the play space, things start to break down mathematically. Visual artifacts become very apparent, most often seen in the form of vibrating or flickering meshes/textures. The Cause: Floating point rounding error Since the Transform's  x, y, and z coordinates are of C# float data type there are limitations to ranges in which rounding errors do not occur. For a full write-up of why this happens you must understand the IEEE standard for floating...

00:38 / Coding / Games / Software Development
13 Dec

For those of you who aren't familiar with this VR project or the purpose check out this post. It is an X-Wing Virtual Reality experience created by Dylan Stout, a VR researcher and software developer. You can DOWNLOAD Project Stardust 0.71b HERE Project Stardust - 0.71b.zip SHA256: 06360D25C50ACAE08D5D2CD5744E1DC0CC0D37EE1EABD443AE06E1317ECB2FD0 File Size : 870MB [891,439 kb / 912,832,798 bytes] How do I verify the integrity of a file?  Having troubles with the download?  In the event the above link does not work for you, try this one. If neither of them work contact me on twitter. Is this program safe? I highly recommend running your own anti-virus scans on the entire contents of your...

19:41 / Games / Project Stardust / Software Development