Web Browsers are for noobs!

Oh well (Didn't you miss me saying that in the last post?) - I spent most of the day fine tuning the web browser on the laptop in the living room. Yeah in the game - not in my real life living room! And when i finally got it working perfectly I was so proud. How cool is that to watch funny cat videos on youtube on a laptop inside a VR game? I was really excited. And then i realized I can't compile the game without having Visual Studio 2015 installed. Doh!

So to make a sad story short - i bailed out. Deactivated the browser and corresponding logic again, so next built will be without it...

*Sigh*... Yeah i know - there's a free version of Visual Studio 2015 and that will be good enough to compile everything. The main problem is that doing it that way i have to compile the game 2 times every time i wanna make a new release.  While that is fine for the final game it is a significant annoyance right now. Yeah watching Youtube in the game was fun! And it sure added to the immersion. But not here and now.

The browser is not perfect yet anyways. It's based on Chromium - so in a nutshell this is a very lightweight version of Chrome. It does not have Flash or proper H264 support and some other flaws. Hell i could not even load the Patreon page on it. Also it is... SLOW... So after all is said and done it is a nice gimmick and i definitely want it to be in the game one day, but not now.

Besides that i sadly didn't get much else done. Been experimenting with some new models and there'll be much more decoration in the appartment soon, but right now it's not finished yet.

Wish i had better news. Well at least I'll have a new release finished by tomorrow - it's still compiling right now. I'll now have a beer and study particles and other interesting topics that will be helpful soon.

Stay tuned for more interesting news!