Has anyone ever tried to implement VR support for Vintage Story?

[Reva Revenant]

Hey,
I’ve been wondering for a while if anyone has ever tried to get VR working with Vintage Story in any form. Even just experiments, half-broken prototypes, engine hacks, whatever.

If someone did try:

• How far did it get?

• What approach did you use?

• What killed the project in the end? Performance, engine limits, input, UI, sanity?

And if nobody really tried, I’d still love to hear from people who know the engine/modding side:

• Does VS even make sense for VR?

• What would be the biggest technical roadblocks (stereoscopic rendering, etc.)?

• Are there any hard engine limitations that make this basically impossible or extremely painful?

I’m not saying “we should totally do this tomorrow”. I’m mostly trying to understand if this has already been explored and what the outcome was.

If there are old threads, abandoned projects, or stories like “we tried this once and it was a horrible idea”, please share.

Thanks!

[Foe Hammer]

I feel like I have seen a mod involving VR at one point, but I cannot find it so sadly I have no information for you on that front.

I know there have been a thread of two like this one where it has been suggested and gotten reception from people agreeing they would like it, and supposedly VR support was in some way on the Roadmap, but if true it is not there anymore.

All that said, I would be surprised if no one at all has at least taken a stab at it, and I am sure someone managed to get it to at least sort of work with a level of jank.

[Reva Revenant]

8 minutes ago, Foe Hammer said:

I would be surprised if no one at all has at least taken a stab at it

I’d be surprised too. But still, I tried to dig around for anything that looks like a real attempt at implementing it, and so far I’ve found basically nothing. Just a bunch of posts over the years asking for VR support and people saying "yeah that would be cool".

[Foe Hammer]

5 minutes ago, Reva Revenant said:

I’d be surprised too. But still, I tried to dig around for anything that looks like a real attempt at implementing it, and so far I’ve found basically nothing. Just a bunch of posts over the years asking for VR support and people saying "yeah that would be cool".

Ya fair enough lol. Hopefully someone who has been around for longer than me had a more satisfying answer for you.

Welcome to the forums btw!

[LadyWYT]

Welcome to the forums(and the game)!

Like @Foe Hammer already noted, I can't recall having seen a mod or anything either. I know that the subject has been mentioned a time or two, and several players eagerly agreed that it would be cool to have, but I don't think anyone's taken a crack at actually implementing it. Or rather, I suspect that any attempts made probably got abandoned rather quickly. Vintage Story doesn't really seem like an easy thing to port to VR given how some of the controls work.

[Reva Revenant]

Well, now at least we can say someone did try. And even better, there’s an image of a WIP to prove it actually exists.

There’s a lot of stuff wrong in that image, but I’ll have to sit down and properly figure that out tomorrow.

Still, it’s nice to finally have something concrete instead of just "maybe someone did this once".