bigcatrik

Yes, you can animate that.

There’s a reference page that shows you what you can animate on each texture node.

https://www.soft8soft.com/docs/manual/en/blender/Shader-Nodes-Reference.html

A green checkmark means it can be animated, and a red “x” means that it cannot be animated. If you go down to the entry for the Wave Texture everything can be animated except Detail Roughness, right above the Phase Offset.

kdv wrote:

Simple “collision detection” based on raycasting.

Thanks, kdv, but gee I dunno. I’m the “non-coder ” they seem to be pitching this stuff at, but when it gets into raycasting, all those variables, lists, dicts, etc. it starts looking an awful lot like “coding” or flat-out “programming” (is there a difference?) to me and I’m rather lost. Puzzles are miles away from the event sheets of Construct or GDevelop which I can usually logic my way through (I was a wiz at Basic in the early 1980s, honest) and even with Verge3D Puzzles I was able to get the camera turning with the right analog stick with the information from #ThomasFabini above (not in the example I provided, though, since I wanted it to use their “VR Controls” verbatim).

Maybe I’ll be happy with the flat movement I have so far (left stick move, right stick turn) and wait to see if that “Virtual Reality” demo project mentioned above by #YuriKovelenov appears.

Thanks, again.

Thomas Fabini wrote:

you should be able to address the thumb sticks’ axes separately by checking the controllers handedness (left, right) first.

Thanks! That put me on the right track.

Next up would be following slopes/climbing stairs. The raycast stuff in the “VR Controls” looks like it might be trying to do that, but it doesn’t work like it seems it should. It will follow a floor, but ignore slopes/stairs.

I just change the name of the folder on my drive and the app still seems to work.

The main reason I need to do this is because I can’t find a browser on the Quest 2 that will delete cache history when viewing in VR, whatever I try — incognito mode, developer options, etc. — and it ends up showing me the old version although I’ve uploaded a new one. The new version may load eventually, but it takes at least several minutes and that’s not conducive to efficiency.

I rename the folder, refresh the App Manager, and upload again creating a new link, which will load the new version every time (and I do delete old versions from the server). I’m not doing anything fancy, just a Blender-exported gltf and a handful of puzzles, but I realize I could run into problems in the future.

I think, at a minimum, you have to have a “when clicked” puzzle with an “enter VR mode ___” in its “do” slot.

Experts, is it correct that you can’t just directly go into VR on page load by using an “enter VR mode ___” puzzle on its own? That there’s a requirement of user interaction to start up VR?

You can set the particles to render as an object and use the “bake” method described here:

Baking Particles for Sketchfab (Blender Edition)

On the page it sends you to scroll down to the third revision of the script for Blender 2.8+:

https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/4956/convert-particle-system-to-animated-meshes

I also had to scale the particles to zero at the end of their lifetime using this method to get them to disappear.

https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/114300/how-to-affect-particle-size-over-time

Someone sells an add-on on Gumroad that does it too but I haven’t tried that: https://blenderartists.org/t/cake-particles-bake-your-particles-as-keyframed-objects/1378059

There may be other ways, I’m not a Blender guru.