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Anything good in there? I'm always looking for more vinyl :)

 

I was hoping for Yodelin' Andy.

 

Some good stuff in there. It's rare to see Pink Floyd on vinyl (at least, none of the thrift stores I've visited here had any).

 

I want to get excited about vr but......

I google around a few times a year and never find a good reason to invest in quality equipment.
A few years ago I was able to make a 'game' for google cardboard that my son and I could explore around in and kill monsters, all with free assets and animations from Unity.

It was crap, done in spare time by someone with 0 knowledge, experience, or training, yet it was probably better than most of the $1-5 'apps' being sold in the play store which always turned out to be nothing more than low quality tech demos.

Yes Oculus is a step up from there, but.... still I haven't seen anything to get excited about. It baffles me to be honest, there should be some good stuff by now.

 

I do not know what is current, but Unity is easy to use and learn, and can be used to create content for Oculus.
https://unity3d.com/partners/oculus/getting-started

 

I am sure there are other ways for professionals, for me with no knowledge it was easy and intuitive, and i could drag and drop models easily. scripting took me a bit to figure out but i think you have the choice of c#, unity script which is some sort of java script, and one other language they use, I found that c# was easiest to do the most with.

It would be good to watch a few unity tutorials there are tons of them online as well as their own tutorial series on their website, it makes starting out and some of those UI issues easier to work with I think. There is probably even a hotkey cheatsheet somewhere online to print out.

Or alternatively, Peter(notadmin) used to work there I think, he probably knows better the best way to start.

 

driver to use your 3DConnexion controller in the editor

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/spacenavigator-driver-9774

 

Yeah, stick with C#. Let me know if you run into any issues with Unity. I no longer work for them, nor do I know how to build games in it, but I have a ton of e-books, assets, and contacts who might know answers to specific questions you'd have.

 

sounds like you are kind of cranky this week :)

Perhaps I used the wrong term, maybe 'plugin' is more appropriate than 'driver'?

What exactly are you wanting to achieve?
Scripting (code writing) should only be needed for gameplay type stuff, or things moving etc....

If you want to do just the world building, displaying your models and architecture and landscapes etc.... then no coding should be needed......

When I started, I just went into the asset store and found free tutorial projects that were somewhat like what I wanted, then removed the models and placed ones I wanted. I imagine you can do this easily with a VR tutorial which will keep all the coding needed for the moving around in your 'world' and let you just build your world. The learning then will be how to work with models drag n drop, and prefabs (models with textures set up, or groupings of models you want to reuse, etc...)

 

Unreal Engine has something called Blueprint, which allows non-coders to make games. I'd call it "Visual programming", meaning you don't have to write any code, but it's more or less like a workflow process.

Unity has something similar nowadays. It used to be something you could purchase on the Asset Store, and for quite some time was one of the more popular add-ons. I think that since then, it's now something also offered natively within Unity itself.