RoomWithAView Alpha 0.5 update

This week is the release of the content I talked about last week, plus a handful of other updates.

The multiple monitor update is in the game now. These work fairly well. The desktop viewers in general received a lot of reworking to make them stable(er). In particular you should see a far fewer crashes on startup when loading rooms which have viewers in them now.

The game controller is also implemented now and working fairly well. To use it you can either select the "Cont" button on a desktop viewer, or just point at one with an empty hand and press the "Grab" Grip button. The same button can be used to drop the controller and go back to mouse input.

The controller emulates a keyboard. The left pad buttons send arrow (up, down, left, right) keys, and the right pad and triggers send the key shown on the button.

So if you're setting controls for a given game just map the actions to the same keyboard key that is shown on the controller buttons.

For an SNES emulator you might do:

For Stardew Valley I've done:

One thing to note is that the O and P keys are now sent by the top buttons on the Vive wands. They were originally a center touchpad press, but that cause too many unwanted button presses. I'll update the controller model in game to make that more apparent in the next update.

Mouse inputs can be done by dropping the controller and selecting something by pointing and using the trigger, then picking up the controller again. It's not going to win any clutch CS:GO wins, but for slower paced and emulated games it works pretty well.

The environment update is in place too. Simply put any 360 panorama image in the Environments folder in the game and it'll load in as an environment.

Additionally new for this week is an update to the furniture placement. Furniture can be rotated during placement now, and works a bit better in general. There is also an instruction block that appears in new rooms. It just details some of the controls in game. It'll need to be updated and made a bit more clear, but it's a step towards polishing the game.

Things I'm working on now: Elevator updates, a 3D model importer to pull downloaded models into your room, and more stability updates.

-Ark1ve