Just realized I've missed Monday updates for a couple of weeks. I'm currently in some crunch time on a couple of projects, meaning the rest of my schedule has either shifted or just stopped being a thing. Hoping that'll be over this week and I can get back to regular updates next week.
There's some movement on Buttplug and related projects happening, so lots to talk about next Monday!
New blog post! In which I explain why VR users are the worst, even though I'm racking up VRChat hours like no one's business lately.
Just rethinking large portions of the project. Again. :|
So it turns out I was not aware of exactly how "Lovense Connect" works.
Ok maybe if I write these in the morning I'll actually remember to send them out...
Most of the last two weeks have been spent trying to wedge Buttplug into Unity in a way that will work with IL2CPP. For those not familiar, IL2CPP is a way for Unity to compile games to make them run faster, but it takes a lot of consideration when building libraries to work with it.
What I thought was going to be a simple update for Unity turned into another major version release! So I wrote a blog post.
More updates in the weekly update tomorrow.
When I released Buttplug Rust v1, I figured I’d be rolling major versions whenever we updated the Buttplug Protocol. Here we are, at major version 3.0, still running the same protocol, but with more surface API changes. So much for those plans.
I can apparently code again!
And that means Intiface Desktop updates! I was already working on cleaning up ID back in January, then got sidetracked onto... something or other. Anyways, with the new release of VibeGoesBrrr (a VRChat plugin for Buttplug) on Friday, it managed to trigger a bug that would cause Intiface Desktop to stop server processes after ~15-20 minutes. This had been a problem for months, though usually it took 4-6 hours to crop up. Turns out, the server process buffer wasn't flushing and would overflow at 1MB of log messages, and the new VGB caused us to spew TONS of log messages, hence the ~15-20 minute time to server stoppage.
Weird week. Weird fuckin' week.
Yeah ok so that whole VRChat thing? It's been givin' me ideas.
VRChat, mostly. I wasn't kidding about the virtual world obsession thing.
But I also fixed some Buttplug stuff! v2.1.7 just went out the door before I wrote this, fixing some issues with Vorze devices and the Handy for software using older buttplug versions like ScriptPlayer and Syncydink. Also fixed some issues with Kiiroo vibrators. Intiface CLI (aka Intiface Engine) v33 is in CLI now, should release in the next 10 minutes or so.
Not much, honestly. It's been a Extremely Fucking Bad couple of weeks out in reality, so things are going very slowly right now.