Mission Editing and VR

[[SRH]Festa_VR_Noob]

Not sure where to put this topic, so for now, I`ll start it here . . .

 

I run the non-Steam verison of the game, and have VR enabled as the 'norm'.

 

This has kind of put me off tinkering with missions as i used to before VR, as for testing i don`t want to have to keep donning the headset or having to keep switching off the VR while i do my mission building.

 

Are there any tricks I`m missing here, where i can run a different shortcut to temporarily disable VR without having to edit a config file or turn off VR in-game?

 

I`m also not a big fan of batch files doing a bunch of stuff before running, but this will probably be my last resort if nobody has any better ideas?

[No601_Swallow]

Testing and running missions that you've been working on is a bit of a bi-atch with BoS. I have to quit the ME and fire up the game, test, then quit the game and fire up the ME, and... rinse and repeat.

 

Someone in the mission editing forum said once that the trick they'd used in RoF (which uses more or less the same ME) was to run the ME on a second computer (perhaps a laptop of some sort) and then transfer the mission files over to the gaming computer for testing. This would obviously take care of your having to switch the VR on/off. That's perhaps the only solution I can think of. It's a niggle, because it's the main cause of slowing down mission building.

 

You can learn the mechanics of building missions and these can become fairly easy and swift, but testing is time-consuming!

Edited December 7, 2017 by No601_Swallow

[[SRH]Festa_VR_Noob]

I`ve built a few missions, so get the whole thing of having to close ME/launch game/test/cry etc.but all of this was before i got hooked on VR.

 

I`m still at the point of having to test, just in case, as it can be a pain if on fly-night we find some annoying bugs that ruin the experience a little.

 

I had tried, previously, to run a virtual machine. That failed.

 

I was hoping to not have to run a second machine. My son does have a PC on the same network that I can probably remote into for that purpose though, so definately one to consider . . thanks

 

Hoping there`s a simpler solution though. Will wait and see if there are more suggestions before going down that route.

[TG-55Panthercules]

You might want to check out this thread - it looks promising for doing things like being able to go from game to ME and back without taking off your VR headset (but I haven't received the update yet so can't vouch for it myself):

 

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/32383-rift-core-20-coming-oculus-soon/

Edited December 8, 2017 by TG-55Panthercules

[No601_Prangster]

You can have two versions of BoX on your computer, one with VR and one without. Copy and paste your game folder to a different location then you just need two shortcuts on your desktop.

Edited December 8, 2017 by No601_Prangster

[[SRH]Festa_VR_Noob]

You might want to check out this thread - it looks promising for doing things like being able to go from game to ME and back without taking off your VR headset (but I haven't received the update yet so can't vouch for it myself):

 

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/32383-rift-core-20-coming-oculus-soon/

 

Good concept, but wanted to get away from using the Rift at all while editing and testing. My poor eyes can only take so much lol

 

 

 

You can have two versions of BoX on your computer, one with VR and one without. Copy and paste your game folder to a different location then you just need two shortcuts on your desktop.

 

This is such a simple solution, I didn`t even think of it! Makes sense, as I already have a second DServer account install. I thought I could use this for testing single player offline, but the GUI has been edited to not allow it to be used in a game capacity (understandably). it can be done, but it`s fudgey and awkward.

[[SRH]Festa_VR_Noob]

You can have two versions of BoX on your computer, one with VR and one without. Copy and paste your game folder to a different location then you just need two shortcuts on your desktop.

 

This was the answer.

 

I didnt install again, but copied the whole game folder to a new drive, edited the config file to disable VR and new shortcut on the desktop.

 

Bish. Bash. Bosh. . . . Cheers!

[major_burns]

I wrote a batch file (Win7) that copied the appropriate startup.cfg file to the file BoS uses.

 

Start BoS in the mode you want and then exit.

Copy the startup.cfg file to another file (like startup.cfg.NoVr).

Repeat for the other mode you want (VR?)

I use three, one for VR, one for non-VR and one for non-VR triple scceen.

Then write a batch file for each mode.

BosVR.bat for example.

Each batch file should copy the saved version of startup.cfg to the main startup.cfg file and then start Bos.

 

Here's an example for VR, assuming you put the saved VR settings into startup.cfg.VR

 

pushd <your steam folder>\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data\
copy startup.cfg.Vr startup.cfg
popd

 

Or, for no VR:

pushd <your steam folder>\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data\
copy startup.cfg.NoVr startup.cfg
popd

[[SRH]Festa_VR_Noob]

I wrote a batch file (Win7) that copied the appropriate startup.cfg file to the file BoS uses.

 

Start BoS in the mode you want and then exit.

Copy the startup.cfg file to another file (like startup.cfg.NoVr).

Repeat for the other mode you want (VR?)

I use three, one for VR, one for non-VR and one for non-VR triple scceen.

Then write a batch file for each mode.

BosVR.bat for example.

Each batch file should copy the saved version of startup.cfg to the main startup.cfg file and then start Bos.

 

Here's an example for VR, assuming you put the saved VR settings into startup.cfg.VR

 

pushd <your steam folder>\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data\

copy startup.cfg.Vr startup.cfg

popd

 

Or, for no VR:

pushd <your steam folder>\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data\

copy startup.cfg.NoVr startup.cfg

popd

 

Cheers for the pointers, but i wanted to steer clear of batch files and have found my answer in having another game folder.

 

Good information for anyone else that may want to run the batch file route though.