When enabled, and a skybox is detected, Dolphin VR now draws it infinitely far away, and it is not affected by freelook or position tracking.

So I added a game-specific option to Dolphin VR for recognising any 3D object drawn at 0, 0, 0 as a skybox. To achieve that, games often draw the sky as a box (called a skybox) or a sphere centred at 0, 0, 0 relative to the game camera. That works in 2D because everything else will still be drawn in front of the sky, but it doesn’t work in 3D when you can see how far away everything is.īecause the sky is infinitely far away, it’s apparent position should not be affected by moving the game camera. Examples include Wind Waker, Metroid Prime 1 and 3, The Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and Blood Omen 2.īecause the sky always has to be behind everything else in the scene, games just draw it at any depth, then clear the depth buffer before drawing anything else. Until now, several games have had issues with the sky appearing too close when viewed in 3D. Here’s an old post from a year ago that I never got around to publishing… So much to do still, but I’m glad I’m making progress on it again! Some synchronization issues persist (Super Mario Sunshine objects bouncing, start of game lockup), and I still haven’t implemented it when the XFB is enabled, or in deterministic dual core mode. ini though, so end users don’t have to worry about figuring out the correct settings! Eventually I hope to fix this so the game works either way, but it’s a solid workaround for now. I’ve forced off the synchronization in the. The only game I’ve found that has issues with it being enabled is Zelda: Wind Waker. I’ve found that this fixes judder issues, synchronous timewarp issues, as well opcode replay errors, crashes and warnings. Generally now, it is always recommended to run with “Enable Idle Skipping” on. This helps fix issues on a bunch of games. The discovery of a CPU->GPU synchronization option hidden in the “Enable Idle Skipping” section of the code was also a big win. Will the other bullet points help at all? I’m not sure, but there’s only one way to find out! I also need to add options to correct the rest of the bullet points. My fix has only been implemented for Direct3D, so I still have to figure out how to do the same thing in OpenGL. This fixes a bunch of games that had terrible flashing and corruption making them unplayable with the Opcode Replay Buffer enabled. So far I’ve implemented fixes for the Vertex Buffer and Vertex Shader Constants. I didn’t know too much about the Direct3D 11 rendering pipeline before this week, so it was a good way to ramp up on Direct3D at the same time. I’d overlooked the fact that the CPU could decide to change a bunch of things in memory midframe. It’s really starting to come along, and I’ve fixed a lot of issues with it.

I’ve been working every night on the opcode replay buffer for about a week now.

Dolphin vr settings for wind waker