Interestingly, at least one of the old apps (rif/Reddit is fun) still works through VPN for me even if the web UI blocks the same thread from exactly the same IP.
DISCLAIMER: Unfortunately, this subreddit only allows one image per post, so I apologize for the image quality, as I had to collage images of this event into one large portrait.
Yes! I am that crazy lad who rented out a movie theatre last year for my graduation party with the Steam Deck! (on r/SteamDeck)
This time, I decided to do the same thing except a bit bigger and beyond.
As you can see, I have EIGHT PLAYER WIRELESS CO-OP working! No, this is not magic, but a ton of thinking and planning on my part to get this working.
This is done by using an external Bluetooth 5.3 Adapter alongside an Xbox Wireless Adapter. To make this simple, this would split the connections to have 4 controllers that are far away in range using Bluetooth, and the other half using 2.4GHz that the Xbox Wireless Adapter uses.
I used 4 off brand Nintendo Switch Pro Controllers (that were amazingly better than the authentic Pro Controllers) to connect to the Bluetooth Adapter, and used 4 Xbox Controllers to connect to the wireless adapter.
What included in my rental was 4 hours of gaming, unlimited popcorn and drinks by the theatre, can bring food from the outside, all under $1000.
Granted, this varies on location for how much theatre rentals can be, so depending on your cost of living is in your area, it could be higher or just about the same!
So, you may ask “how the ** did you get 8 player co-op working?!?!”
Great question.
This was done by having Windows and SteamOS dual booted on my Deck, which I used a program on Windows called “NucleusCo-Op” that lets you basically turn any game into a splitscreen title.
After we did Minecraft and BOII CoOp, I had to (no pun intended) switch over to SteamOS to play the Switch games. Would love to see a port of NucleusCoOp on Linux so I can get rid of Windows DualBoot permanently!
I did a lot of effort to get this all set up and working in less than a month, as I pretty much planned this last minute.
As you can see with the 8 player Minecraft, it looks like old console Minecraft with its visuals and HUD/UI!
This is because of a great mod called “Legacy4J” which literally accurately recreates console Minecraft if it were continued today. It even has native controller support built into it, even for the Steam Deck!
The Developer of the Mod, Wilyicaro, helped to make this work with NucleusCoOp!
Shoutout to him, he’s an amazing man, as he did all of this less than a week to get it working for me.
Same goes with Call of Duty: Black Ops II, as I also used NucleusCoOp for that.
So, how did it all run?
Minecraft with a TON of performance mods, ran at a perfect 60fps the entire time, with each instance having 6 chunks to save on memory.
COD BOII with all of the lowest graphical settings, ran at 60fps in all of the instances.
It’s truly amazing, considering I was using Windows, a non-supported platform for the Steam Deck besides a new driver about 8-12 months, with such incredible graphical performance.
And yes, as you can see with later images, I also emulated Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and held a mega tourney all emulated on the Steam Deck as well with flawless performance.
I, at my own birthday party against really good players, somehow managed to win despite the fact at my graduation party last year, I lost in the first round LOL. Snake for the win, baby!
You may ask, “Is this practical? Why not use a gaming PC to do all of this?”
Amazingly, I would consider this to be more practical than using a gaming PC because of its size.
I fit all of the 8 controllers I had, along with my Steam Deck, its dock that had a USB hub connected to two USB extenders of the adapters, fit in a small tiny plastic tub.
With a gaming PC, have fun hauling a large 40lb metal box around and take a lot of time to attempt to set up. Steam Deck was literally just plug and play with the projector supporting HDMI!
The Steam Deck is clearly powerful enough to be able to handle what I’ve done, with having 8 player splitscreen AND Nintendo Switch emulation off of one singular device.
It’s genuinely amazing.
Anyhow, I hope this post inspires someone to do what I did, to rent out a movie theatre and use their Deck to play games with good lads and have a ton of fun, because it’s worth it!
Back in the early 2000s there was such poor support from non-Windows for high powered graphics cards, it's no wonder vvvv never moved to other platforms. I worked at a Mac/Linux art studio in that time and we had to keep buying Windows boxes just to run the video artworks we produced.
the docs regarding HTML export is very old as that feature is unsupported by Unreal Engine since UE4 days. They abandoned web export basically, because the features they needed did not exist on the web platform back then. The post is about a 3rd party attempt to bring those experiences to web through the use of WebGPU - Unreal Engine 5 by itself does not support it (yet, if ever).
I could see Epic maybe giving it another go, but the features would be limited. When people hear UE5 they think of the new flagship features like Lumen and Nanite, but those are built around API and hardware features a few generations ahead of what WebGPU currently offers. Nanites software rasterizer, for example, really needs 64bit atomics to be at all viable.
That's the old UE4 web target, which Epic deprecated way back in 2019. OP is about a new UE5 web target developed by a third party rather than Epic themselves.
The GPT-V accepts screenshots of your desktop and application GUI as input. Please ensure that no sensitive or confidential information is visible or captured during the execution process.
Azure OpenAI still flags prompts that trigger their censorship rules for human review. The only way around that is to request a waiver which is generally reserved for regulated industries. That may have changed (hope so!) but at the time I know it was a non-starter for some privacy-minded clients.
Thanks for clarifying this — I was wondering if this was something I should be doing with my laser printer, and wasn't looking forward to investigating!
I fell in love with Tetris back in the 90s, I’ve played it on a bunch of platforms (including a keyring). To learn VR game dev I’ve been working on a 3D version of Tetris:
Another of Unity’s big plays goes up in flames. I must admit I really didn’t understand what the plan was for Weta. At the time of the deal it sounded like in five to 10 years Unity would become a realtime movie effects company competing with Unreal.
When I think of where Unity is heading, I suspect I’ll be using a different tool in a couple of years. But for now I’m sticking with it and making my code run as much outside the engine as possible.
