After working on a game for Rec Room's game jam (see here), I'm back at working on icosi-do's support of Tilt Five™ glasses:
- I changed colours again because pure red was too dark and might flicker a bit with Tilt Five™ glasses. I didn't want to add any blue to the red colour; therefore, I added green, which meant that the yellow colour had to become a more pure shade of yellow. I still have to get used to the new colours, but they might work better for users with colourblindness. Also, I increased the ambient colour to avoid very dark rods.
- The low Glockenspiel notes are louder now. Yeah.
- I've increased the size of the collision shapes around rods; mainly to make it easier to select rods with the Tilt Five™ wand. The collision shapes are now at a size that I sometimes feel that they might be a bit big, so it's unlikely that I make them any bigger - at least not for all devices.
- There is a new option for Tilt Five™ glasses: SETTINGS > AR GLASSES > CLONE VIEW. If it is ON and the Tilt Five™ glasses are tracking a gameboard, the view in the glasses is cloned/mirrored/shared on the PC screen. Otherwise, the standard PC game view is shown.
Watch video on YouTube (opens in a new tab) - It's now possible to play with Tilt Five™ glasses without Tilt Five™ wand. For this, no wand should be connected (turn it off with the T5 button, if necessary) and CLONE VIEW has to be set to ON. Instead of a mouse pointer or reticle, a small sphere is shown to indicate what you are pointing at.
- But how do you resize and move the puzzle without a wand? Well, if Tilt Five™ glasses have been detected, it's now possible to change the size and height of the puzzle with keyboard ("Z", "X", "H", "Y") and Xbox controller (bumpers and "X" and "Y" buttons).
- If CLONE VIEW is set to OFF, it's possible that one player is using Tilt Five™ glasses and wand while another player is using PC screen and keyboard/mouse/Xbox controller. (Hovering over rods doesn't work yet for the PC player, but apart from that selecting rods works fine. Does anyone really want hovering to work?)
Please let me know what you think! I still have to test Remote Play Together between a Tilt Five™ player and a PC player, so there might be more changes coming soon in case that doesn't work as expected.
UPDATE: I tried Remote Play Together from a Windows PC (using Tilt Five™ glasses and wand) to a Mac (using keyboard and touchpad), and it worked fine. If you want to try it yourself: the player using Tilt Five™ glasses has to be the host and you should set SETTINGS > AR GLASSES > CLONE VIEW to OFF.
