Chimera SDK 0.9.0

Chimera SDK 0.9.0

Service = v1.0.0
Hardlight.dll = v0.5.0
Unity SDK = v0.9.0
Unreal Plugin = v0.2.3
Asset Tool = v0.1.2

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What you need to know

• This is probably the last release before we rename to Hardlight SDK
• Unity package upgrade guide is here
• Before installing this release, follow these steps:
  • Quit any existing runtime or game
  • Type %ProgramData% into an explorer window's navigation bar
  • Delete the folder named boost_interprocess

This release contains new Unity tools (haptic sphere-casting, VR mimic improvements, new suit demos, & 3D haptics explorer).

There will be an Unreal 4.18 release soon (TM); note that the Runtime Installer in this release is not compatible with previous Unreal releases.

Release Notes

Service

• Support for MarkIII Hardlight Suits
• Many bugfixes and stability improvements

Hardlight.dll (CAPI)

• Massive renaming from NSVR to HLVR
• Allow events to target nodes or regions
• add Analog Audio and Buffered Haptic events

Unity SDK

• Brand new ScriptableObject (Scrob) asset format
  • HapticSequence
  • HapticPattern
  • HapticExperience
• Assets are same type as runtime types
• Asset Importer now creates Scrob assets.
• New Scrob asset editors for each type.
• Previewing Scrob assets in editor.
• Improvement to the VRMimic tools
• Experimental code for suit tracking/arm & torso mimic tools
• Haptics Explorer is now 3D
• Haptic Spherecasting - great for swords/lasers/etc (check example in Haptics Explorer)
• New Gathering impulse (the opposite of an emanation)
• Temporarily disabled Haptics Explorer's Emulation Mode
• all references of NullSpace are changed to Hardlight, and assets using 'ns' namespace were changed to 'hl'
• Added custom icons for new asset types (in Gizmos folder)
• Added custom icons for VR Mimic gizmos (in Gizmos folder)

HapticAssetTool

• Write a version number into HDFs (version 2)