God damn it #Diablo4 why are you downloading so slow all of a sudden? #linux#GamingonLinux Hopefully this can be done in a few hours for the stream on #Twitch
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@gamingonlinux Hm, room descriptions could use some work, as I'm not sure how to join the space: one says visit #gamingonlinux-community, another says #gamingonlinux-space...
Added a new feature to the website today: I can now set any individual article to have the comments go through approval first. Will be used on certain specific topics, so I can help keep the community as peaceful as possible 👍
@gamingonlinux When did #GamingonLinux get toxic? I mean, I’ve been gone for about six months; but I’ve never seen the comments get toxic in the past… Or have I missed something?
If you haven’t played #Dirt5 on #SteamDeck and you have the game you REALLY should! Rock solid 50 FPS with everything set to low, looks and plays phenomenal on this little machine. #gamingonlinux#gaming
And if you have played this game at all and you are a fan of 90s and 2000s #arcade racers you should give this a go. Pure arcade feel this one 😄 #retrogaming
My #Introduction
I’m an IT guy who got bored during the pandemic and somehow got popular on Tiktok talking about 3D printing, networking, #cryptocurrency ,#linux ,and #IT. I started a Twitch recently focused on #gamingonlinux and eventually console #gaming and Linux SBC and networking projects. I love #dogs and will mostly talk about tech, rarely do I mention political but it’s mostly cyber and privacy rights. Hope to get the printer working again soon. Also I make #music as a hobby sometimes
The last update has been a while. I focused my attention to the MFDs (Multi-function display). This part didn’t get much attention yet and I was caught between the difficult choice to learn yet another fancy framework, like Raylib, that would do OpenGL ES 2.0 without X11 on the Raspberry – or just throw the might of my CoffeeLake at it and go with ReactJS since most of the data was already available via NodeRED anyway. Also… ARWES is just so cool 🤩
I went with ReactJS and ARWES again, simply because I have some experience in this by know thanks to my Streaming Overlay I wrote with it. Hobbling it up to NodeRED was just a matter of installing SocketIO to transport the messages. It’s all a very hacky mess but it gets the job done.
Video demonstration of my simulated cockpit made from cardboard on a budget mainly used to play Elite Dangerous in early 2022. This is work in progress.While seeking through the available data I noticed that I don’t get velocity values from Elite. That’s not so important in space but kinda interesting for me in planetary flight to satisfy the flight sim gamer in me as well. I noticed tho that I do get timestamped latitude, longitude and altitude values so shouldn’t it be possible to “simply” calculate this, right? Right?
This was when I dived into the rabbit hole of calculating velocity and heading on planetary objects using a spherical coordinate system and while I didn’t nail it exactly how Elite does it the result is close enough. The game provides the required data to go crazy here – most important the radius of the current object. In theory I could start writing some primitive AFS (Auto Flight System) routines now, which I’m totally going to explore at some point in the future just because 🤓
https://beko.famkos.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/simpit-velocity-calculations.jpgChecking my maths – yes, altitude is added to the mix so velocity is mostly correct as long as no rapid course changes are madeAfter spending way too much time with this and the Pythagorean theorem (Yes mum, a game made me do maths. MATHS! 🤯) I settled with some calculations and data for my current ship to the right and targeted ship data on the left. This is sort of tricky because many game events update different parts of the data so timestamps have to be kept in mind and a game specific parsing strategy is required. See the last part of the demonstration video to get an idea how this looks.
https://beko.famkos.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/simpit-situational-awareness.jpgImproving situational awareness by putting the video feed of wingman / gunner on the central MFD.Another point to tick off my list was getting the head tracking to work in Elite (again). Now this is very Linux PC specific so you may tune out on this paragraph. On Linux PC I’d usually compile Opentrack with the Wine Glue, patch in my appdata dir for Proton and hope that it’s still ABI compliant to Just work™. Alas recent Proton is sandboxed within pressure vessel and the usual approach of memory mapping is simply no longer working, if I got the gist of this right.
So my current strategy is to download and drop the Windows build of Opentrack into the game folder and chain-load the EXE with the game where the Opentrack EXE would listen on UDP while my native Opentrack BIN would send via UDP. A task not made easy with Proton but it is possible. The following snippet may give you some pointers:
#!/bin/bashexport STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH=/games/steam/steamapps/compatdata/359320export STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH="$HOME/.steam/steam"python3 /games/steam/steamapps/common/Proton - Experimental/proton run opentrack.exe
Why running Opentrack twice? The native build performs a lot better with my webcam and every frame really count here. Reading data via UDP is not much of a burden for Proton. This also saves me the trouble of fiddling with Wine Glue, a painful compile process nobody should endure involving installation of many many additional 32bit libraries. Hilarious but it works.
Updated: This content is obsolete. Two years later I rebuilt the cardboard version with something more sturdy and raised a dedicated project website describing the builds: SimPit.dev
Nobara is the Fastest Growing Linux Distro for Gaming (boilingsteam.com)
We have received the freshest batch of ProtonDB data and we are back with an analysis of how the distros have been doing over the past few years. Following our last article focusing on Manjaro (whose usage is dropping continuously)… Continue Reading →