BetterVR 0.9.20: Physical bow drawing and lots of bugfixes
Hey everyone,
After the last update that added proper bow aiming, I got a question from one of my supporters about whether I could make it so that you can physically draw the arrow back, and suggested a great method that turned out to be very effective. You basically put the arrow near the string, and then press the trigger and pull the arrow and string back.
Besides that, I've also gotten a ton of feedback and bug fixes done. Really wanted to fix some long-standing issues that people had, while still focusing a lot of my time on the big 1.0 release. I think having these small but iterative improvements stacking up over time is pretty cool.
The big features and bugfixes
- Physical bow drawing
- When you put the arrow near the bow string, then press the trigger and pull back, your hand and arrow will follow the bow drawing animation.
- The bow arc now only shows up while you're (close to) drawing your bow, for added immersion.
- Fix camera clipping when climbing overhangs or ceiling
- Prevent camera rotations when climbing onto walls or in many other situations (excluding events/dialogues/cutscenes)
- Fix model, hands and equipment lagging behind the player while riding or mounted on a shield
- Fix quality options in
Graphics (For BetterVR)graphic pack. FPS might stay unchanged due to the VR headset refresh rate limit!!!- Normal (default game effects)
- Low (no god rays, ~4% higher FPS)
- Very Low (no shadows & god rays, ~10% higher FPS)
- Also hide Link's hair in the first-person mode. This is a follow-up on the previous face-only head hiding improvements I made.
- Fix throwing while in third-person, and allow dropping your right-hand weapon too
The bug fixes:
- The mod now warns you when you don't have FPS++ enabled which would crash the game
- The mod will force accurate pipeline barriers to be disabled to simplify the setup a bit
- Added Pico Ultra and Pico Neo 3 controller support
- Fix horse riding height so that increasing the player height option doesn't make you lower instead of higher and vice versa.
- Slightly faster (hopefully) due to asynchronous logging
If you want to donate
This mod has taken thousands of hours to develop and make. So if you are able to, consider donating to support future updates of this mod by donating via my GitHub sponsorship link: https://github.com/sponsors/Crementif.
Donating also provides you access to a private Discord server where I'll often share info about what I'm working on, ask for opinions on what I should do next and various other things. And you're obviously supporting the mod, which is greatly appreciated and helps to keep future updates coming.
But above all, I hope you enjoy the mod. And you can always create GitHub issues or message me directly to get those same perks.
Mod Installation
Please follow the installation instructions here:
https://github.com/Crementif/BotW-BetterVR?tab=readme-ov-file#mod-installation
Make sure to read the Known Issues and Requirements section to work around any existing bugs.
To recap these instructions: You just place the BetterVR_Launcher.exe you can download below (not the Source Code .zip one) next to an already working Cemu.exe, and you're done.
Windows Defender has flagged some of our previous releases as a virus due to the fact that this injects into Cemu and its (at that time) unknown. It usually takes a few downloads for it to be whitelisted by Microsoft, but until then please refer to the virustotal scan where almost all anti-virus software don't have this false-positive, or build the source code yourself. You can restore a quarantined file using the instructions from microsoft. I'm sorry for the inconvenience :/
How To Update
You just have to download the BetterVR_Launcher.exe below and place it next to Cemu.exe. Overwrite whenever asked.