Agreed! I remember testing this on my DK2 last fall and creating a custom Modo environment where I literally chopped the "Screen" into several bits so different parts of the interface were closer or farther away for legibility on a lo-res screen. I just bought and installed this new version and am looking for where the environment editor even IS! ... Excited to make something sweet. :)

You can start the environment editor from the dialog box that pops up when you start Virtual Desktop in you Steam Library. You can also launch it directly from the Steam\SteamApps\common\Virtual Desktop folder on the disk where you installed it.

How do you specify where the display goes on the model?

I can't find the reference, but I recall that Guy said if you use the fixed screen option, it uses the first object in the model and assumes it's the screen.

I've never made a model with a fixed screen, I just use the default normal screen.

Still can't find the reference, maybe I just imagined it?

If you want to see a demonstration of a mesh with a fixed screen, the Home Theater environment that comes with Virtual desktop is taken from the Oculus Mobile SDK, so you can download that and take a look at it.

I believe he said somewhere that it looks for an element named SCREEN, and right now only supports a single monitor.

Russel is correct, if you check the "Fixed Screen" option, it looks for a mesh named "Screen" (not case sensitive) and currently only supports 1. Also the scale needs usually to be set to 0.01 to match the scale in VRD. I'll hopefully have time to write a guide soon but feel free to ask any questions you may have.

Note that you can create and publish environments at the moment but users will not be able to download them just yet. I'll add this in a future update, once there is a bit more content too :-)

Originally posted by ggodin:

Russel is correct, if you check the "Fixed Screen" option, it looks for a mesh named "Screen" (not case sensitive) and currently only supports 1. Also the scale needs usually to be set to 0.01 to match the scale in VRD. I'll hopefully have time to write a guide soon but feel free to ask any questions you may have.

There were animated elements in the Rick and Morty environment you previewed in the promo video. When I first experimented with creating an environment, I thought it had to be packaged as a single .obj file. Can such a file include animated elements, and what is the best package to generate a file like that?

There is no animation in the Rick and Morty environment. It is generated from a single .fbx file.

I got a model working with screen. But cant seem to get positional tracking working. Right now im just putting the scene origin where i want the camera to be. I notice it works fine in the Home Theatre. Does that file have a specific object to define the camera position?

I would like an animated spaceship cockpit witht the screen on the windshield; will that be possible in the future?

Originally posted by Nick P:

I got a model working with screen. But cant seem to get positional tracking working. Right now im just putting the scene origin where i want the camera to be. I notice it works fine in the Home Theatre. Does that file have a specific object to define the camera position?

try to change the scale to 0.01, that's usually why positional tracking doesn't seem to work

If anyone is wonderful enough to show us a blend/obj/fbx file with a successful Virtual Desktop environment. I'm sure it'll be tremendously helpful to others here.

Check out the Home Theater FBX from the Oculus Mobile SDK, that's where the one in VRD is from (with some tweaks obviously)

Excellent thanks.