@TinyBeard That's an interesting idea. I'll look into making that an option.

@cp65 No, you'll just have to pass around the IP address for now. It will DNS resolve the address you put in which is why it works if you put www.uhlhydroplanes.com in there.

At the bottom of the page I wrote how to run a dedicated server: http://www.uhlhydroplanes.com/hydrosim

Mainly you need to pass several command line arguments to the executable. When you do this, you won't see anything launch, it will look like nothing happened, however it is running. You'll see the process running in the windows task manager. Eventually, I'll make a wrapper app to add a UI for the dedicated server.

Also, there's currently no master server list, so you connect by IP address or host name.

@cp65 I would like to, unfortunately there isn't out of the box support in Unity. There are some assets that people have made, but most are very old and not sure if they work. I'd probably have to write a custom native plugin to do it.

Scott Przybylski

Hey Steve,

It probably loaded, you won't actually see a window pop up or anything. It runs in the background.

After running that, bring up Task Manager ctrl+alt+esc. Click Details tab. You should see a HydroSim.exe process running. Also, to shut the server down, you'll need to do it through the task manager by killing the process.

1. I won't be adding any new courses right now, I'm going to try and start adding more detail to the existing ones first.
2. New boat hulls are in the plans, but this is just a hobby for me and I only have so much time to work on things.
3. That's up to whoever is running the league.
4. With the current water library I'm using, wake effects don't affect the boat physics, but I can adjust how rough the water is for the entire course. I'm planning, in the future, to switch over to the Crest Ocean library which supports interactive wakes and other interactive water features. I've done some quick tests with it and reported some bugs to the dev. It's in pretty active development, so I'm waiting for some bugs to be worked out before I put in a full effort to switch to it.

Right now I've started working on some 3D models for the pit areas. Unfortunately, I've been really busy with work and taking care of a baby, so I haven't been able to get anything done the past couple weeks.

v0.5.5.0

Added:

• Basic VR support for Oculus, can be enabled by running with -vrmode Oculus command line argument
• Support for metallic / smoothness maps and added default metallic maps.
• Added U-1918 Oberto with metallic maps.
• Added U-9 Les Schwab with metallic maps.

Removed:

• U-100 Leland and U-9 Jones teams.

Updated:

• Finished up the Blue Bridge at Tri-Cities
• Cinemachine and Postprocessing libraries.

Fixed:

• Flame animation slowing down in replay.
• Attemping to fix hovering/sinking buoys again.
• Water reflections.

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v0.5.4.1

Fixed:

• Potentially fixed weird physics glitch / buoys launching into the air. (Might not be fixed, needs testing)
• Fixed yacht material color

v0.5.4.0

Added:

• Seattle race course

Fixed:

• Smoothed out Tri-Cities terrain.
• Replay drivers scrollbar was linked to chat window.
• Fixed CPU usage for dedicated server (hopefully this finally fixes all the server issues).
• Yacht on start / finish of Mission Bay was hovering in the air.

Updated:

• Updated to Unity 2018.2.17f1

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Link to the spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hlvN3qbJ1gVwvZPYNm4MwRkKFdmJe7Zn35EhXoJI4eU