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There are many others like it, but this is mine.
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but i don't expect it to work anymore!
Someday i want to go to the Leicester museum to try a working one!
Thanks everyone for the support and happy retro memories
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Well done.
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As for other bits of my Polygon Nightmare first impression: the whole "move forward relative to your head, not to your hand" thing trips me up a lot after Onward set the standard of hand-oriented movement. I wonder if the original Dactyl Nightmare has that same issue.
Also, the game clearly wasn't devised with room-scale setups in mind; if you step out of your starting position, you wind up having an out-of-body experience, and I'm pretty sure I shot myself by accident because of this.
I also want to see if the original game spawned a new 'dactyl with those "Bird is hungry" warnings, because the existing ones floating above don't change their circular flight patterns to get you; instead, a new one spawns, just straight-up beelining right for you. Make sure you've got the right one sighted, because your gun probably won't reload in time for a second shot!
It's cool to see but I would have thought that should actually stretch out to be my actual display, rather than me looking at the screen from a far. Is that not what it's supposed to do?
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As for other bits of my Polygon Nightmare first impression: the whole "move forward relative to your head, not to your hand" thing trips me up a lot after Onward set the standard of hand-oriented movement. I wonder if the original Dactyl Nightmare has that same issue.
Also, the game clearly wasn't devised with room-scale setups in mind; if you step out of your starting position, you wind up having an out-of-body experience, and I'm pretty sure I shot myself by accident because of this.
I also want to see if the original game spawned a new 'dactyl with those "Bird is hungry" warnings, because the existing ones floating above don't change their circular flight patterns to get you; instead, a new one spawns, just straight-up beelining right for you. Make sure you've got the right one sighted, because your gun probably won't reload in time for a second shot!
The original game had only a button to move forward on a set speed (slow). I believe you change direction by moving your head, not by direction of your hand but i have to check with my friend at the Retro Game museum.
About room-scale. i haven't got into that yet, butt the original game was a complete stand in the small pod and rotate on your feet
Dactyl behaviour is exactly what you describe. two show dactyl circling and when the dactyl coms for you, a new one is activated and one of the circling ons disappear until you get picked up or plast it.
the bird diving for you is an animation an is a child to the OVRplayer, this is why its locked on to your HMD view even if you swivel around trying to get away from it. sorry for this part but remember i'm a self learned dev.
In fact I think I know of a really dirty but effective work-around that will keep it trained on your position but leave it's rotation intact so that it wouldn't "spin around" with you.
Edit: Just tested and this should work:
Step 1: Make your "dactyl animation" a child of an emptyGameObject first
Step 2: Make THAT empty a child of the OVRplayer with its local position 0,0,0
- At this point nothing should have changed and it should still work as normal
Step 3: Add this script to the emptyGameObject
All it does it remember the localRotation when it began with when it is instanced, and keep the rotation fixed.
Since the Dactyl animation would be a child of the empty, the position will still track along with that empty but the rotation will remain fixed to what was set in the empty when it is instanced.
Of course I've made some assumptions about how you've got it set up:
A. Your animation is a direct child of the OVR player, if this is not the case and there is already a child inbetween the animation object and the OVR player then you could just drop the above script into that object.
B. Your animation is an instanced object or prefab when the Dactyl appears, if this is the case then you may need to remake the prefab with the new empty and instance that Empty with the dactyl as a child.
If this is not the case and it is an object that remains in the world but simply activated/deactivated then you may need to add to the above code to create a random rotation quaternion whenever the dactyl appears.
Sorry if that got a little confusing, if you are interested in any more let me know. I'll gladly help.
The biggest "question mark" in my mind is whether or not the animation is an instanced prefab at the time that it attacks you or if it is just a hidden object that is set active true/false. Because that might change a couple of things, but wouldnt be hard to adjust for.
the real deal. @ Stockholm tech museum
Hopefully i will be able to do a real size 3d model out of this, to remake the boring intro
I used to play Daktyl Nightmare all the time in London at the Trocodero (if I remember correctly) and also in NYC at South Street Seaport ( again, if I remember correctly) sometime around 1993-1994. I was quite good at it, lol. I think it was 3 or 4 pound coins to play in London, expensive but worth it, really fun game. So here I am, 26 years later (omg) and about to buy my first home vr system, the quest. So I have to ask... will Polygon Nightmare be available for it? I see it isnt one of the first 50 games... but sometime later? Thanks for any comments, would love to play this again. Am curious to see what its like compared to a game like Superhot, which I've never played. Is it really a 25 year jump in graphics and gameplay...?