Welcome to the November 2022 version of VR Modding Month-to-month, a month-to-month article to maintain you updated about all of the thrilling issues occurring within the fantastic world of the Flat2VR Modding neighborhood!
As at all times, this has been an enormous month for VR modding! As if proper on cue to mark the fictional begin date of Sword Artwork On-line, among the best and largest MMO’s on the earth, Last Fantasy XIV is getting a VR mod, Praydog has made some big breakthroughs on his Common Unreal Engine Injector VR mod, Puredark and Praydog have made some big breakthroughs that might enhance efficiency in lots of video games (not simply VR mods, however VR video games too), and way more!
For those who’d prefer to study extra in regards to the Flat2VR modding neighborhood itself, take a look at our first problem the place we introduce ourselves, and if you wish to get entangled, take a look at the official Discord server or Twitter.
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Last Fantasy XIV VR Mod
First, the extraordinarily proficient modders Marulu & Streetrat who labored on the already acclaimed Half-Life 2 VR mod have been engaged on a full 6DOF VR mod for among the best MMOs, FF XIV. The mod will help 1st & third individual, movement controls, and extra!
At first, the mod will focus extra on enjoying the sport utilizing your movement controllers like a gamepad (the sport has improbable gamepad help out of the field), however will later help precise movement controls (you too can play with mouse & keyboard too if you would like too).
For followers already of the MMO, it’s such a deal with to stroll by the acquainted streets and see beloved characters up shut for the primary time in beautiful VR. For raids and really enjoying, you’ll probably need to keep in third individual for now as you’ll be capable of have an incredible view to go searching the battlefield and see all the things that’s occurring in full attractive 6DOF VR.
Over time, the mod group has plans so as to add full movement controls, Half-Life: Alyx-like choice menus like this, and so forth.
I’m an enormous fan of considered one of VR’s solely MMO’s, Zenith (not simply because I helped work on it!), but when there’s one factor VR has desperately wanted, it’s extra wealthy MMO’s with deep worlds gamers can get misplaced in.
There’s a collection of channels setup in our Discord, so soar in if you wish to maintain updated on the mod’s progress and take a look at the Alpha model quickly! The mod will probably be utterly free and open supply when it launches in alpha in two weeks!
STAR WARS: Jedi Knight II – Jedi Outcast VR Mod
Jedi Knight 2 VR Mod Will get Higher & Nearing Public Launch!
The Jedi Knight 2 beta will get higher with movement managed pressure powers & is nearing a free public launch on Sidequest!
If you wish to obtain it now, help the group’s superb work on Patreon: https://t.co/d8tpXNxicU pic.twitter.com/hEqtsud3o7
— Flat2VR (@Flat2VR) October 21, 2022
Jedi Outcast is a sport that I fondly bear in mind after getting it one Christmas practically 20 years in the past. It’s onerous to explain the waves of nostalgia that may hit if you first load up considered one of your favourite video games and are—for the primary time—actually in the sport like solely VR permits. TeamBeef’s newest VR mod, Jedi Outcast VR is just the most recent VR mod to do that for me.
The mod, like many different DrBeef ports, runs utterly standalone on the Quest (Pico 4 help coming quickly). The visuals maintain up fairly properly and all of the unimaginable work so as to add full movement controller help on all of the weapons, lightsabers, and pressure powers make it actually a dream come true to play.
DrBeef’s VR mods are all extremely praised and have been downloaded a number of million instances. Like his different mods, it is going to be free and open supply when it releases.
If you wish to obtain the Jedi Outcast VR mod now (the entire sport can now be performed from begin to end), help the group’s work on Patreon the place you’ll achieve early entry to this and different WIP TeamBeef mods. Assist for the sequel, Jedi Academy can be deliberate.
Flexible & The Ink Machine VR Mod
One other TeamBeef VR mod that’s been within the works is a VR mod for Flexible and the Ink Machine. This extremely praised horror sport is getting the total VR remedy with 6DOF roomscale help, movement controls, and extra! Assist for the primary chapter simply launched on TeamBeef’s Patreon and the entire sport will probably be playable in VR from begin to end without spending a dime when the mod publicly releases somewhat later.
Half-Life VR Mod
Within the final couple problems with VR Modding Month-to-month we coated our Half-Life 2 VR mod that launched immediately on Steam to ‘overwhelmingly constructive’ evaluations. We had been fairly humbled when Kotaku reviewed the port and stated it was “virtually too good to be true.” There’s nonetheless quite a lot of thrilling updates popping out quickly for Half-Life 2 VR, together with extra mod help, up to date graphics and the Episode 1 & 2 expansions (and way more). However what about Valve’s sport that began all of it? DrBeef and group did a wonderful job porting the unique Half-Life to the Meta Quest a pair years in the past, however what about for PCVR gamers?
That’s the place Max is available in and has been onerous at work for the previous few years constructing a port for PCVR. The port has been constructed from the bottom up (separate from DrBeef’s work) and has new options akin to bodily ladder climbing, palms, a particular VR HUD, and extra. Although launched immediately on Steam, it’s nonetheless in Early Entry and there’s nonetheless a big roadmap Max has deliberate for the port. If you wish to soar into the sport that began all of it although, you’ll be able to play it all through from begin to end now nonetheless. Obtain the mod free on Steam (you will have to personal a duplicate of the bottom sport).
Left 4 Useless 2 VR
Talking of Valve, among the best co-op shooters of all time, Valve’s Left 4 Useless 2, has had a VR mod for a short while now and has been getting a gentle variety of updates. The mod presently helps movement controls, full 6DOF synced eye rendering, and even helps extra mods and customized maps!
This Halloween, a group from our neighborhood, SpecialAgentinChargeWd40 & Deanoov91 made a complete conversion Ghostbusters marketing campaign to be performed with the VR mod in thoughts.
That is simply an instance of one of many tons of of marketing campaign maps you’ll be able to obtain and have a blast enjoying with your folks collectively, surviving zombies (or ghosts) in full VR.
Common Unreal Engine VR Injector Mod
Final month, we coated a few of the thrilling issues grasp modder Praydog has been as much as with the ‘one mod to rule all of them’, a common mod that provides full 6DOF VR help in practically each Unreal Engine sport (UE4 & UE5 particularly) ever made. That’s hundreds of unimaginable video games with many within the AAA class.
There’s nonetheless no actual launch date, however Praydog has been making big progress and is making quick work of issues that should be achieved forward of the discharge.
One factor that he’s been engaged on is a framework in order that different modders can add extra options to particular video games. In simply two days of labor, Praydog made an instance mod, including in full movement controls to a sport utilizing his framework. The primary sport to get movement controller remedy is Severed Metal and serves as a improbable template so as to add movement controls in different Unreal Engine video games for different modders.
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What Unreal Engine video games are you most excited to play in VR when Praydog’s mod releases? I’ve put collectively a listing of some hundred video games right here.
Vote in your high picks right here so we all know what to deal with by way of extra polish!
Up to date VR Mods For All Fashionable Resident Evil Video games & Shadows Of Rose Enlargement Assist
As if Praydog wasn’t already doing sufficient and doing the not possible, he’s nonetheless managing to work on a reasonably big replace for his current RE Engine VR mods. Praydog has labored with PureDark so as to add DLSS + FSR 2.1 help into the sport’s engine to enormously scale back the GPU efficiency necessities. He additionally managed to get single-pass stereo rendering working which enormously reduces the CPU necessities.
Right here’s a earlier than and after of a sure room within the sport that’s been notorious for being a heavy hitter by way of efficiency:
A sneak peek on the upcoming DLSS + single body multi-pass rendering replace for Resident Evil mods by Praydog & PureDark.
This room used to utterly kill even high-end techniques (Earlier than & After) pic.twitter.com/HIAvdAiObG
— Flat2VR (@Flat2VR) November 1, 2022
One other main replace to Resident Evil 2 VR particularly is a 4k texture pack that Ashok has created, giving gamers the flexibility to essentially take a look at issues up shut and see a stage of element that was earlier than not possible.
🔥 Resident Evil 2 Texture Pack 3.0 Replace 🔥
Ashok has labored extraordinarily onerous to make Resident Evil 2 completely beautiful when enjoying in VR by changing practically each low-res texture within the sport so you’ll be able to actually lean in and take on the earth up shut.https://t.co/cBGogXR4t2 pic.twitter.com/nnCdPgE9I0
— Flat2VR (@Flat2VR) November 4, 2022
Our good friend BeardoBenjo lately did a video on simply how good the sport appears to be like at max settings on his shiny new 4090. Praydog’s replace ought to enable extra folks to expertise the sport like this quickly.
Along with efficiency updates, Praydog can be including first individual VR help to the model new ‘Shadow of Rose’ enlargement for Resident Evil Village (usually solely a third individual sport) and must be popping out quickly.
Skyrim & Fallout 4 VR DLSS & FSR Assist
Extremely proficient modder PureDark (whose Gunfire: Reborn VR mod is releasing very quickly) has been engaged on tackling the difficulty of excessive efficiency prices on a few of these VR ports and mods. Since VR requires rendering each a left AND proper eye individually + reaching 90+ fps AND rendering at excessive resolutions, it’s no surprise the specs required to run VR are fairly excessive.
PureDark began to surprise ‘what if Nvidia and AMD’s leading edge efficiency enhancement tech like DLSS and FSR 2.1 might be modded into VR video games to get these nice advantages too?’ The method of doing that is fairly daunting and up till now, nobody else has been capable of crack it. DLSS is an AI machine-learning upscaler that requires deep information of the sport to work properly. It must be fed movement vectors, the sport’s depth buffer, together with management to do jitters, and so forth.
PureDark first created a framework so as to add DLSS in virtually any Unity sport. Then he started experimenting with different engines. He labored with Praydog so as to add DLSS & FSR to the Resident Evil video games after which started work on including it to Skyrim & Fallout 4 VR.
Skyrim and Fallout 4 have hundreds of mods that may push the sport to seem like a subsequent gen title (on the expense of your poor GPU heating up the entire home and crying for mercy). PureDark’s work ought to convey down the barrier of entry performance-wise on many video games together with letting us push the graphics even greater than was doable earlier than.
Talking of Skyrim, Skyrim VR continues to be among the best VR video games interval due to the unimaginable work of so many modders, giving it virtually Blade & Sorcery ranges of VR management.
Our good friend BenPlays lately did a video on simply a few of the newest Skyrim VR mods that convey the sport to the subsequent stage.
Get Linked and Keep As much as Date on VR Mods
Properly, these had been a few of the greatest Flat2VR updates this month, look out for one more problem subsequent month! For those who’re all for studying extra, have to get assist with putting in/utilizing any of those mods or simply join with a tremendous neighborhood of fanatics comply with alongside right here:
