[UPDATED] Beta 1 Build - Tested on the DK2, fixed menu functionality and fixed true black smearing.
=========WHAT IS STORYTELLER?==============
Storyteller is an immersive audiobook player. It makes a regular audiobook sound like it's being read to you from the storyteller hermit character in his hermit cave. Play one of the included public domain works of H. P. Lovecraft, or play your own by replacing user_audio.ogg in the .exe directory with your own .ogg file (MP3 support planned), and then selecting "User Audio" on the menu.
========HOW TO USE========================
* Run the game, press Escape and look at one of the floating books.
* Text will appear to tell you what action will happen when the activation time (4s) has elapsed.
* The books with titles will play that audio file. The one labeled "User Audio" can be used as described below, to play your own audiobook file (.ogg format only)* You can exit by looking at the book in the middle column, bottom row, it will say "Exit Storyteller".
========USER SUPPLIED AUDIOBOOKS===========
For the fully featured free version of Storyteller, you can play your own audiobooks by simply replacing the "user_audio.ogg" file that resides in the Storyteller .exe directory (Storyteller\BlankStoryteller\Binaries\Win64). It's Ogg format only for the moment. A future release will support MP3 files and other formats. To convert your audio, I suggest the free program Audacity, available at Audacity.sourceforge.net All audio files must only have a single channel (mono audio). This is easily accomplished in Audacity by opening a file and clicking Track -> Stereo to Mono. If stereo audio is supplied, positional audio effects will not function (it will still play, though).
========KEYBINDS===========================
Keybinds:
F1/R/Enter – Reset HMD (for Oculus Rift)
Spacebar – Pause/Play current book
Numpad 0 – Create bookmark at current time. Note: This does not currently save per-book. So you could do weird things like make a bookmark that’s greater than duration of the audio. I don’t really need bug reports for this case – I know it’s there.
Right/Up Arrows – Cycle bookmarks. This will skip to the first bookmark, and so on, until it loops bookmarks.
Escape – Opens or closes the floating books menu (you can exit from the menu, just hover over the book in the center column, bottom row).
==========CREDITS==========================
Will Hart ( cthulhuwho1.com ) for his reading of The Hound and general enthusiasm for the project
Epic Games for Unreal Engine 4 - it's amazing!
Rama, keru and Ehamloptiran of the Unreal Engine forums for their examples of plugins, sound and texture loading code (respectively).
r/Oculus Reddit DK2 testers for all your feedback!
Known Issues (to be fixed in next version):
* Sometimes title selection will fail if a book was already selected and playing.
* Tesselation on the player body and head not working correctly and causing performance hit (to be removed next version - will be readded with correct version and more performance later).
* For Oculus Rift users, please make sure to enable vsync, and use the launcher to turn down the Anti-Aliasing, Shadows, View Distance and Effects to maintain a constant 75fps - next version will feature better performance for more graphical goodness.
* Second dripping water particle effect can't be seen by the player, and due to causing a large FPS drop, will be removed or toned down in the next version.
When I play it says, missing MSVCP120.DLL and then when I place that in Binaries it says ''Program was unable to start (Oxc000007B) :(
@CalemGames, I searched a bit and this AnswerHub answer (https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/14088/msvcp120dll-is-missing-from-your-computer.html) seems to say that is caused by not having the Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Runtime installed.
Here's the link to the Runtime:
Microsoft.com
Let me know if that fixes the issue. Also I'm uploading a new build of the app that will perform a bit better and also has fixes for the menu system.
Thanks for letting me know about this problem!
Already did this when I first had the issue, I spent a good long time trying to find out what was wrong but no luck, the game looks unreal too :( I want to play it for my youtube when I do get it working is that okay? :)
I'd be honored to have a video made about it :D Feel free.
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Weird, so no dice after installing the redistributable?
Hmm... looking at the AnswerHub question, it seems you may need to install both the x86 and x64 versions:
vcredist_x86.exe
vcredist_x64.exe
Did you install both, or just the x64? Lemme know if installing the other one fixes it for ya, if not I'll make a new post on AnswerHub and see what I can find out.