[DK1/2] AeonAlpha

rupy

"It's like Homeworld in first person."



Lowpoly multiplayer space shooter, for high framerate and zero simulator sickness.

Added a chat to http://aeonalpha.com so you can have it opened in one tab and hear when someone else goes to this page so we can try and have a multiplayer session. This means if you want to play browse to http://aeonalpha.com first an see if someone is in the chat there first.

Instructions:

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Disable Aero on Win: Right click desktop, Personalize, Select "Windows 7 Basic" Theme.
- Disable force vSync: Aeon should render at 2xHz FPS.
- Uses 0.4.4:

- Switch to extended display mode. -

Keep the Configuration Utility open.
- For DK2: rotate screen to 1920x1080 like all other "extended" demos.

- To launch double click bin/aeon.jar
- IPD Config: hold 9-key until crosses diverge, then press 8-key until crosses converge.
- Controls: Arrow keys and A, S and W.
- Press R to reset view.


Download (This also works without Rift, so you can play with friends that don't own a Rift)
Readme

maxhille

Does not work for me. I stopped the 0.4 service. I just get a window without stereo on my primary screen.

rupy

Did you switch to extended display mode?

I added remote debug for this, so if you can try again, I will see what goes wrong.

It will patch automatically, you don't have to redownload.

rupy

The problem might be that you need to install the Microsoft VS2010 C++ redists (both x86 and x64) from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555

rupy

Ok, I think I fixed it, sometimes the 0.3.2 driver reports a real DK2 as being not real. Now I just look at the Product Name so it should work for everyone. Let me know!

ad2003

ok works now! Portrait Mode.

rupy

Ah, sweet! Thanks for letting me know!

rupy

It seems some of you failing to run the game because Java can't load the JRift (and/or other) dependencies:

The only way around that is to create a run.bat file with these contents in the aeon folder:

"PATH\TO\YOUR\java" -Djava.library.path=bin -classpath "bin\aeon.jar;lib\jinput.jar;lib\lwjgl.jar;lib\lwjgl_util.jar;lib\json.jar;lib\mp3.jar;lib\freetts.jar;lib\jrift.jar" client.Aeon
pause

After replacing the PATH\TO\YOUR with your path, f.ex. C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin

And double clicking that to run Aeon.

cybereality

Chrome says the file is malicious and has blocked me from downloading.

AxelBernadotte

Chrome always complains. Using Internet Explorer for downloading my malware.

rupy

cybereality wrote:

Chrome says the file is malicious and has blocked me from downloading.

Does http://rupy.se/aeon.zip work?

hymanator

Does the download contain .bat files with the .zip file? Those can be flagged as malicious.

rupy

Nope, you have to create it yourself if you have trouble double clicking bin/aeon.jar.

I think the res/talk/mbrola.exe I use for "the voice" is the culprit here.

GrahamH

AxelBernadotte wrote:

Chrome always complains. Using Internet Explorer for downloading my malware.

I think you should sell the concept to microsoft .. A whole new branding for IE.

"Interent Explorer: THE best for malware downloads"

rupy

Patch released:

I noticed that on my 750Ti the game renders at 1000 FPS which causes the rendering delta to fluctuate so I capped the sync to 300 FPS.

Also rotated the rendering to 1920x1080 so it works the same way as other extended apps.

rupy

Added a chat to http://aeonalpha.com so you can have it opened in one tab and hear when someone else goes to this page so we can try and have a multiplayer session. This means if you want to play browse to http://aeonalpha.com first an see if someone is in the chat there first.

rupy

You guys need to stop forcing vSync.
This game renders at 250 FPS on a Intel 4000 HD.
This is an extract of the user FPS from the last couple of days:

2798328107645222545 11/09 13:38 300 VR 
3109564995611732247 13/09 22:52 300 VR 
3270553253964175851 09/09 18:05 298 VR 
3512771104996638668 11/09 22:11 75 VR 
4262376612338828061 12/09 06:20 60 VR 
490979811929904906 11/09 04:25 75 VR 
6144882540596340337 15/09 16:04 75 VR 
6691764785237902795 15/09 21:34 60 VR 
7426382302560259088 14/09 21:43 300 VR 
7604981736169729691 11/09 23:49 60 VR 
7848949165951959728 14/09 18:24 75 VR 
8113618767863192644 13/09 21:48 300 VR 
9182273550069794243 14/09 08:17 231 VR 
9210961163722582454 14/09 00:55 75 VR

Half of you are getting sick for no reason!
Please try to turn vSync off and compare!

rupy

New TTS engine, you need to re-download everything if you have the old version. Edit: Ingame voice chat with spaceship filter should now punch through UDP properly.

rupy

Added barrel and chromatic aberration distortion. Edit: Don't forget to turn Aero off!

rupy

Added super-sampling and 0.4.4 integration, but you need to keep the config utility open.

Linux and OSX should work, not tested yet though.

OSX works, but the rendering gets cropped by the OSX OpenGL implementation (I think the super sample is cropped to the screen size), also there is judder probably caused by some OSX "feature" similar to Aero on Windows. vSync gets turned off properly; actually I can't get OSX to use vSync at all. I think the compositor in OSX is inducing the vSync problem.

EDIT: The super sampling problem can be solved by setting the screens to duplicate and the vSync issue can be worked around like so.

Linux rendering works fine but you need .drirc file with vblank_mode=0 XML to unlock vSync and the tracker is broken or really hard to get to work. Also the performance is lightyears from windows.

Now we know why Oculus and Valve has dropped Linux and Mac support.

Unfortunately since there are binary changes you need to download the whole 27.5MB zip again.

rupy

I patched the game with my adaptive "double-screen-Hz" FPS solution.

If you try it you will almost get a better experience than 0.8 with Async Timewarp, Late Latching and Direct Rendering.
Except tearing and ghosting which will be solved in the CV/Vive screens (global update) and/or next gen screens (no ghosting).

Why?

Because when you render two frames per Hz of the screen, the last frame is as close to the photons as you can be, in this case a latency of 6.6 ms for the DK2 and 5,5 ms for the CV1.

Until we either get screens that show frames when they are received or can ask the screen when the next frame will be shown; this is as good as it gets.

To try:

- Download everything you need from aeonalpha.com.
- Reinstall Runtime 0.4.4. (will try to merge Stellas jRift 0.8 that came with Minecrift sometime this fall can't access direct mode monitor from LWJGL, the Vive will support extended so I'm switching)
- Install Java 1.5+.
- Disable Aero and vSync.
- Keep the config utility window open.
- Double click aeon/bin/aeon.jar.