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Tutorial GameVibe Manual

Discussion in 'Tutorials and Tips by the Developer' started by yobuddy, Dec 25, 2017.

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  1. Trip Rodriguez

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    That's exactly why I said I was excluding it for "obvious reasons". I know the Elite Dangerous plugin takes a ridiculous amount of effort to maintain, I even offered to send SilentChill a little tip each time he has to fix it after a patch but he gracefully declined. I decided it was entirely too much to ask for a feature that would add more work!

    I will admit I do still really want a nice "bump" when the docking clamps grab on or detach, and motion cues for the hangar elevator would be really nice too!


    @paulopsx2 I did basically the same thing for Elite Dangerous but the results were not very good. Weapons seem to have no punch, the docking sound is not very strong, and if you crank volume up you get a constant huge vibration during flight. Better than nothing, but Elite sounds isn't well suited to this method.
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    Anyway it's quite easy to implement your own plugin which supports GameVibe....
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    The big difference thou, is that with GameVibe, the plugin writer needs only to add the output into the plugin and then it just works.
    Also, GameVibe technically is still in beta, and look how many games are supported while still in beta (vs other apps that have been out a long time.)

    Last update to GameVibe gave us these new outputs.
    (Which should help allot for flying games I think.)
    • Flaps (Flaps)
    • Landing Gear (Landing Gear)
    • Weapons1 (Gun, Cannon, or any fired weapon)
    • Weapons2 (Gun, Cannon, or any fired weapon)

    All in all thou, I think we are close to a full release of GameVibe, as the internals have been polished up along side v2.4 of SimTools.
    In short, this means I can finally concentrate on actually using the tool for more games, and stop spending tons of time on how to make it easy to use for plugin writers. (as it will be finished.)

    And btw, adding new affects in the future is not to hard either.
    So even once its out of beta, its been written in such a way that we can add whatever we want for vibes as we go!

    Take care guys!
    yobuddy
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    for shure. tks. put DCS on priority list rs
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    Hi. I'm new to GameVibes and just got it setup today. After some driver issues I have all four of my Buttkicker MiniLFEs working. I setup my soundcard per the manual/tutorial and now am trying to create vibes. Are there any recommendations on which sound patterns work best for different vibes? I could tell the white, brown and pink noise are probably preferred for turbulence and engine hum type sounds, but am not sure if sine, sqr, or tri is better for one sound type or another. Is there any info on that anywhere? Thanks in advance.
    gbdesai, Jun 30, 2019
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    Yes, when adding them, this was my though.

    I think this is mostly preference and what works best for your setup.
    I would start with sin wave thou.

    Hope this helps!
    Take care,
    yobuddy
    yobuddy, Jun 30, 2019
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    well it depends. some games like NLS2, elite dangerous, haves a diferent patterns. racing games have intuitive rpm vibes... generally betwen 700 and 9.000 for rpm.
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    I haven't been able to try gamevibe because of the regional issue. Should be fixed, but my rig is not operational at the moment.

    I'm wondering if it is a good assumption that running gamevibe would provide tactile effects more in tune with a motion rig running simtools than for example using simtools for motion and simvibe (simxperience) for tactile?
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    Game Vibe lets you customise tactile effects,which are different from motion, but both use telemetry data.
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    Hmm, it might be I badly frased my question. Because gamevibe and simtools are part of the same application and interpret telemetry in the same way. Or atleast being created by the same person. Would it mean that the tactile effects sync better with the motion when using gamevibe, opposed to using other software alongside simtools motion to drive the tactile effects?

    I can check this my self in a few weeks time, but just being curious.
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    The telemetry driving both motion with SimTools and transducer for Game Vibe is the same, but is used differently to what outputs they drive. In both cases the telemetry data is dealt with quite efficiently. That said using different software for say transducers and SimTools for motion will work, at times there are some port conflicts to manage, but other than that the main differences is in having differences of approach in the two software as to how they lay out and manage controls.
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    That makes sense. Thank you for the insights noorbeast .
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    Hi, I am still in progress of figuring GameVibe out, but I am writing to report a crash I am seeing sometimes:
    Application: GameVibe.exe
    Framework Version: v4.0.30319
    Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
    Exception Info: System.AccessViolationException
    at <Module>.CoCreateInstance(_GUID*, IUnknown*, UInt32, _GUID*, Void**)
    at SlimDX.XAudio2.XAudio2..ctor()
    at XAudio2_GameVibePlugin.GameVibePlugin.PlayNote_GameVibe(IntPtr, System.Guid)
    at GameVibe.MyAudio.Note.PlayNote_GameVibe(IntPtr, System.Guid)
    at GameVibe.cls_ActiveNote.CreateNoise()
    at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(System.Object)
    at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
    at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
    at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object)
    at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

    I feels like it has to do with order of startup of Game (rF2) vs GameVibe - I hope stack helps :) Note that it does not crash all the time, just sometimes - I have not figured out exact repro sequence yet.

    PS: I wonder if order of available devices changes when I start VR HMD or something?
    The Iron Wolf, Jul 25, 2019
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    Try this and see if it makes a difference: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109
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    Hi @The Iron Wolf,
    Please make sure you are running the newest GameVibe version, as it has all the prerequisites in the installer now.
    I only say this because I see this in your post "Framework Version: v4.0.30319" and its now compiled against v4.6.
    Take care,
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    Thanks @yobuddy, I grabbed my mine from the simtools site after upgrade of license. It appears to be v2.0:
    upload_2019-7-26_7-12-4.png
    But I installed Simtools v2.4 on top of v2.3, I wonder if there's some conflict. To my surprise, I still see v2.3 in the control panel:
    upload_2019-7-26_7-14-43.png

    Lastly, I do not think I have .NET 4.6 installed, highest I see is 4.5.1, I wonder if that is the issue. Also, crash seems to be in SlimDX/Xaudio - are those built against 4.6 as well?

    However, if it was dependency issue, wouldn't tool crash all the time? It crashes only sometimes, and it seems to be related to the startup order of SimTools/GameVibe/Game. I am getting my transducers/amp today and will update if I figure out the exact sequence that leads to crash.
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  17. yobuddy

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    It's worth it I think to simply update you .net to the latest version.
    just so we can cross that possible problem off the list.
    yobuddy, Jul 26, 2019
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  18. The Iron Wolf

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    would you recommend exactly v4.6 or the latest? (4.7.2?)
    The Iron Wolf, Jul 26, 2019
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    I'd simply load the latest.
    Take care!
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    It looks like my system already has that, so that is not the cause of crashes.
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