The Last Outpost

Hello everyone,

I decided to buy a program to use with my HTC Vive in the hopes of emulating VR capability in non-VR games.  The program had support for Elite Force, so I decided to try it out with RPG-X.  It works really well with RPG-X with full head tracking.

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If you want to reproduce the environment yourself here is what you will need:
-Windows 7 or higher
-A VR Headset - Either Occulus or HTC Vive (I only have a Vive)
-RPG-X
-vorpX  http://www.vorpx.com/ (http://www.vorpx.com/)

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Steps you need to do:

1)  Setup your VR Headset if you have not already

2)  Ensure you have RPG-X installed

3)  Install vorpX

4)  Configure vorpX, and duplicate the Local Profile for Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force and name it something related to RPG-X

5)  Point the Local Profile for RPG-X to the RPG-X .exe

6) Launch your game

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vorpX automatically kicks in if you have it set to Watching, and have defined a rule for the game you are wanting to use with VR. 

Here are a few screenshots:
(https://last-outpost.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimgur.com%2FxdHzbit&hash=f0ea9fbb0865cbcbccef34c51455825c)
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/291237861968052224/315556852010188801/20170520130850_1.jpg)
(https://last-outpost.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimgur.com%2FwjrOVdR&hash=864f842d3611c9da62b3f252c26363bd)
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/218862407768997898/315684111652225024/20170520143634_1.jpg)
(https://last-outpost.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimgur.com%2FqOMAdyN&hash=fa0bcd6b438037a408fba0bdef136075)
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/218862407768997898/315683922035998742/20170520142601_1.jpg)


http://imgur.com/a/vgftK (http://imgur.com/a/vgftK)


One thing to note is that the UI adapts to where you are looking, and it might be a little more difficult to select dialogue windows.  There is a tendency for the VR experience to look in weird spots, but can be corrected with external controls (used the Vive controllers in my case)

This was the first thing I had to do with vorpX. It was quite the thing.

That is quite awesome! Makes me want to invest in a VR headset. Mostly because I want to see 20 Peldari/Kulhane's jumping around on the bridge.  :lol:

Quote from: Jenson on May 21, 2017, 07:16:44 AM
That is quite awesome! Makes me want to invest in a VR headset. Mostly because I want to see 20 Peldari/Kulhane's jumping around on the bridge.  :lol:

"Hup, Hup, Hup, Oh my Feet!"

Whoa, can you use the controllers t control the game or do you still need kb and mouse?

I was using the controllers in game.  I am not sure how to bring up the keyboard for interacting in a multiplayer environment for responding in chat.  It was pretty cool to coordinate with the two controllers.

Thank you for the tip!  :)
Finally got my hands on a VR-headset myself so I had to try it. Very cool!  :D*
My VR-headset is a "Windows Mixed Reality by HP" headset and it works fine using VorpX. I just followed Arron's steps above and it worked.
VorpX doesn't officialy support anything other than Oculus Rift and HTC Vive at this time so it was a gamble that paid off for me. :D

TIP: Make sure to set the in-game video and screen resolution options before you launch the game in VR-mode since it won't save your changes if you do them while in VR mode. (I selected 4:3 1280x1024) I also maxed the FOV using VorpX's ingame menu (press DELETE) to reduce "fish-eye".