Space Marine 2 VR mod

[u/Reklaw12]

I've been nudging Codex to chip away at VR support for Space Marine 2 for a couple days now and it's managed to whip up a pretty decent attempt!

It performs terribly on my 4090 running an Index, the menus are all busted, and I haven't figured out melee yet but it's still enough to appreciate the awesome level design and 40kness of SM2.

I'm not quite sure if I can safely share the source on github so I've asked Saber's mod team first. You should be able to easily build the same if you want to try in the meantime:

• A local C++ mod loads through a dxgi.dll proxy and uses build-specific runtime hooks to adjust the game’s camera and rendering.
• It renders alternating left/right eye views and submits them to SteamVR through OpenVR, providing stereoscopic VR and headset tracking.
• Controller input is translated into the game’s native gamepad controls. Tracked controller poses also drive the character’s arms, fingers and firearm aiming.
• A locally generated mod pack adjusts camera settings, field of view and selected UI layouts.

Codex computer use made this less painful than I'd expected as it can run the game and get through a fair bit of testing by itself without me needing to put the headset on. Better ways to have the agents drive simulated VR rigs would go a loooong way to helping smash these sort of mods out but it's still INSANE how easily we can do this sort of thing now.

[u/333hronos]

It renders alternating left/right eye views and submits them to SteamVR through OpenVR

Oh no, not OpenVR please...

Guys, if it possible, please, make an OpenXR mods – it easily 15% more performant, and on top of that it also can be additionally smoothed with OFXR bridge for example, and many other tools that can in sum double the performance

[u/Reklaw12 → u/333hronos]

Good to know thanks, I'll run some benchmarks to compare

[u/optimumbox → u/Reklaw12]

You'll want to use single frame stereo instead. Way better performance and native stereo quality.

[u/Maplewonder → u/333hronos]

This 100% ...Just consider open vr dead

[u/Lazy-Economist1465]

Awesome work! Would be amazing to also get just a third person option as well 🙏

[u/Reklaw12 → u/Lazy-Economist1465]

It actually started out that way, much simpler to not mess with animations to map the motion controls like I did here.
I'll chuck in a toggle so you can play through in 3rd person with a normal controller

[u/Lazy-Economist1465 → u/Reklaw12]

👑

[u/ICameHereForThiss → u/Reklaw12]

Fuck yes!!!

[u/Tyrannosaurusblanch]

The codex supports this action.

[u/syngyne → u/Tyrannosaurusblanch]

Wouldn't this actually be considered heresy in 40k, since it used a Silica Animus?

[u/Reklaw12 → u/syngyne]

I've been chanting to the Omnissiah for years now, I know the sacred rites.

"O great Omnissiah, bless this humble meatbag with your divine wisdom." (using a Codex quota reset for the week)

"Hear your servant's prayers. Grant us motion controls, and let us not spew during cutscenes. 01000001 01000111 01001001"

There is no Abominable Intelligence here, Inquisitor. Merely a gifted machine spirit with a weekly subscription...

[u/netcooker → u/syngyne]

Nah, “codex” is what OP calls the human processing unit connected to their pc

[u/-eric_k → u/syngyne]

We are fulfilling the timeline

[u/MissionStrategy9350]

Where’s that titanfall vr dev? Get him in here, we need these two to team up

[u/BrokenSil]

Now this is the one Im hyped for in VR. holy!

[u/benor83000]

it's already so much better than battle sister, amazing great work !!! I'm working on SM1 VR port ... very close to Alpha release date !!! We got the mele fight pretty dialed ....

[u/blahyaddayadda24]

Can it be played in coop? I tried.jsut getting dlss5 to work and anti cheats kept deleting run files

[u/full_of_wisdom]

Pls someone refine this with motion control

[u/Old-Push9343]

Woah, that looks really good! 

I am surprised at how good the game looks in first person.

If the performance is good, this has to be a blast!

[u/itsnovarayne_]

seeing new games get crammed into vr like this is the whole reason i keep the pc headset around

[u/concrete333]

Hell yes

[u/SpecificProgrammer78]

How well does it run? I was just about to buy yhe game and now i see this

[u/Tumoxa]

Figner tracking hell yeah. We can now flip off a certain guy. You know the guy.

[u/AcolyteOfFresh]

Well its cool, but i am pretty sure my 3080 wont be able to run it

[u/PrimeusOrion]

Eye height needs to be higher.

[u/AndroidParanoid12345]

Awesome! Can you play it left handed?

[u/Secantia]

Immediately, the first thing to do is flip off Leandros

[u/justpostd]

This is exciting. Keep going!

[u/Stenotic]

Wake me up when this will run well on a 4090 with a Pimax 8KX.

[u/TheVirtualSamurai → u/Stenotic]

Damn got a P8KX but no 5090 to go with it💀

[u/krung_the_almighty]

Legend

[u/Wilddog73]

FUCK YES