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I’m making a mission and I’d like the mission to fail if you kill one of your own units (blue).

I can do this with an objective, with conditional “if not all units in group X are alive”. But then the objective shows up on the list in game, distracting from the “real” objective.

Is there a way to make the player fail if they kill their own, but without adding an objective? And in a way that makes it clear to them why they failed? A “hidden” objective maybe?

I’d like to make an asymmetric VR game eith Godot, meaning that on the same computer one player wears the VR headset and another player uses the keyboard and mouse.

I’m thinking something along the lines of the desktop player has a map and talks to the Vr player to guide them.

I know Godot can do VR. Can it also display something else on the PC screen at the same time? Is there some special trick to it? Oftentimes the screen just shows the view from the VR player.

Advice welcome!

Edit: post title was supposed to say “in Godot”, of course, not “is Godot.” Silly autocorrect.

I’ve been using Airlink offline, meaning I have a dedicated wifi router for VR that is wired to my PC but the PC has no internet connection.

This has been working fine with Airlink but today things changed suddenly:

When I try to connect to my dedicated wifi, the Quest connects briefly, shows “no internet connection” but then disconnects to go back to my house wifi (with internet connection but no link to PC). As a result, I can’t start Airlink because it just keeps on disconnecting.

I don’t know how to even begin troubleshooting this.

If you have a similar setup, is it still working for you or are you seeing the same thing?

I put together a simple shader. It has an input (“uniform”) where you can put a number, and the shader image writes that number itself in a simple font.

Is this something people might be interested in, so I should package it up for the asset library, or was this a fun exercise but that’s the end of the road?

I’ve been playing with shader code to draw simple geometric shapes. I understand those are slower to draw than textures but I’m also wondering how much of the GPU memory they need compared to a texture.

Is there a way to measure how much GPU memory my shader is using (or will be using)?

Say I have a modern phone and a 360 camera.

If I wanted to take a 360 photo that I can watch in my VR headset and move a bit to the side (“walkable 360 photo”), how should I go about it? What else do I need to know?

I tried the Quest Pro the other day with Link and the thumbsticks didn’t work (I couldn’t move the map or TGP even though they were SOI).

Can someone else with a QP chime in as to whether it works for them?

I have a bunch of data in Parquet files. New files added constantly.

Every record has an associated timestamp. Most of my queries look at recent data only, but some go far back.

Is there some existing database or tool that can cache the more recent data (say, on ssd) but also transparently get the rest from S3 if needed?

It’s ok if it just talks SQL instead of Spark, but I need to be able to do joins.

When I start VTOL VR, it has an animated ad for the plane racing game.

Seeing an ad in a game I paid for rubs me the wrong way. I like the game so I really don’t want to request a refund.

There is an “x” to close the ad but it comes back the next time I start the game.

How do I get rid of it permanently?

Airlink is not working on my new Win11 computer. Help would be welcome.

It’s a modern machine with a 3080ti. Wired Link is working just fine.

When I try Airlink, it stays at the black screen for about 10s then shows the 3D “O” symbol then after another 10s or so it shows the white grid… but if I move my head it’s showing black all around it, as it does for games that have crashed.

In short, this is not normal. My computer uses wifi which I understand adds a bit of latency but surely not multiple seconds. The network itself seems fine, I can connect to it and watch videos and everything.

I tried updating the GPU drivers, made no difference. Virtual Desktop is crazy slow in exactly the

I use the Virtual Desktop 3rd party app and overall I love it.

Recently I had something strange happen though: I use the “home computer” environment but sometimes when I have to take off the headset to tinker with my PC, when I put it back I was somehow switched to the void environment.

Has anyone seen this? Anything I can do to avoid VD switching the environment on me?

I’m relatively new and hoping someone here can help me.

I’d like to load some data, modify it and save back. It crashes on save, even after I remove the modifications so it’s just read then save. The input is larger than RAM but I’d expect Spark to stream it through rather than try to load the whole thing in memory.

My code looks like this:

 spark.read.parquet(‘foo/*’)\
.write.format(‘parquet’).save(‘bar/b’, mode=‘overwrite’)

It fails with:

Job aborted due to stage failure (mymachine executor driver): OutOfMemoryError
WARN: MemoryManager: Total allocarion exceeds 95% of heap memory
ConnectionResetError: connection reset by peer

Perhaps there is a setting I need t

Since the last update I have not met a single enemy airplane in the air, always on the ground by the hangar.

Is anyone else seeing this too? Is it some sort of bug, or a coincidence?

Do not buy your Quest from Target if you don’t already have a Facebook account.

The reason is that Target refuses returns on the Quest, so if Facebook bans your new account you have no recourse.

In the (otherwise excellent) game “Resist”, I am stuck at a level where I have to raise the threat level to bring a tripod guy.

I shoot up the cameras until they light up, then swing in sight of the cameras so the drones come. I shoot those, and the spider thing comes. I can shoot the three things in the front and kill it. But the. I’m still only at threat level 3, I need to be at threat level 4. But there’s nothing else to shoot at. If I shoot at a camera, it resets the threat level to zero.

What am I supposed to do?