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Outerra Tech Demo - The whole planet Earth

camenix
Honored Guest
Outerra Tech Demo (the free version), as well as the full version of our alpha sandbox game (Anteworld) now come with Oculus Rift support.

Outerra is a 3D planetary engine in development, capable of seamless planet rendering from space down to the surface. It uses real elevation data of Earth, refining it to centimeter resolution using fractal algorithms. It offers unlimited visibility, progressive download of data and procedural content generation. For more info see the features and the Outerra forums.





Download the latest version here: demo.outerra.com

In case of problems please see the instructions for graphics driver issues, startup problems.

The demo can be upgraded to the full version in-game, after you verify it's working alright and want to support the development. The engine is still alpha, meaning there's lots of stuff still being worked on - more biomes, 3D trees etc.

To use with Oculus Rift:

  • check "use if present" in graphics/stereoscopic settings in the main menu

  • select a higher resolution if possible to help with the aliasing

  • by default the stereoscopic mode uses a reduced quality grass, you can uncheck it in the stereoscopic settings if your graphics card is powerful enough

  • restart

  • you should have the magnetometer calibrated using the OculusConfigUtil to to avoid drift. To reset the orientation, press the semicolon key

  • you can use alt+semicolon to toggle between the stereo and mono modes


Happy roaming the planet!
Outerra
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camenix
Honored Guest
"evill33t" wrote:
Is the engine only available for windows? A OS X version would be great.

Right now Windows only, and we need OSX to support at least OpenGL 3.3 to be able to run.
Outerra

Pingles
Explorer
"camenix" wrote:
Please PM me the eng.log - it can be found in the Outerra data directory (the second directory that was selected during the install, by default in Users\yourwinname\outerra\eng.log)

Also, when uninstalling, the cfg files stay - you should delete them manually to be sure. Move them away, and it was the cause please send them to me as well, so I can debug it. Thanks!


Will do. Eager to try again tonight when I get home from work. I will delete the config files and will PM you the eng.log.

cybereality
Grand Champion
Tried this out. It's awesome!
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camenix
Honored Guest
So it seems the problem appears when you installed to Program files (default), but chose the data directory to be the same on the next installer's page, and at the same time you have UAC enabled in Windows. This version checks if the data directory is writable, and if not, it changes it to the user directory, but that one is empty and sometimes the startup may fail when the base terrain data aren't downloaded fast enough.

To avoid these problems, for now please keep the data directory to be in the default user folder, or somewhere else than the system folders, for which Windows UAC blocks the write access.
Outerra

Pingles
Explorer
Fantastic!

It was definitely the User files. Once I had them installed in the game folder we were golden.

Thanks for the help.

evill33t
Honored Guest
"camenix" wrote:
"evill33t" wrote:
Is the engine only available for windows? A OS X version would be great.

Right now Windows only, and we need OSX to support at least OpenGL 3.3 to be able to run.


Well, seems Mavericks comes with OpenGL 4 :3

Patrickshirley
Honored Guest
First let me start by saying that flying in this thing is absolutely mind blowing however is anyone else finding head movement ever so slightly laggy? The menu is fast and responsive and the flight controls too so I don't think it's a frame rate issue.

camenix
Honored Guest
Update 0.7.16.3733 was released, changes:

  • semicolon key resets tracker orientation

  • fixed occasional black screen with third person follow camera

  • fixed crash at startup when data directory isn't writable because of Windows UAC

Changelog
Outerra

camenix
Honored Guest
Update 0.7.16.3745, changes:

  • fixed shadows on transparent objects in stereo mode (cockpit & instruments)

  • switching between various stereo modes and rift now works without restarting

  • more options for non-Rift stereoscopic modes

Changelog
Outerra

sammaz
Honored Guest
Best sandbox for fun times with Rift.

I got the full version and downloaded a bunch of cars\vehicles...

Best 1st person vehicles are :

jeep wrangler, 2013 viper, flying boat, mig 29, hot air baloon, 🙂 :shock: :shock: :shock:

Also you have to get the full earth dataset so you can fly over you hometown 🙂