- Nature Treks: Together is now open for playtesting - 1 July 2021
Firstly, I apologize for using the Nature Treks hub to direct interest towards the new project. I do hope it's of genuine interest to people here. I want to express my gratitude to everyone that has supported the PC version of Nature Treks. It is where the journey started and it's given me the opportunity to continue doing what I love, I've spent the last 5 years working on improving the ideas and concepts explored in it. Many ideas have been shelved along the way. However, I sincerely believe that Nature Treks: Together moves the concept in a positive direction and is a solid foundation to build on. A lot of thought has gone into the multiplayer aspect of 'Together'. However, it still holds up as a single-player experience and improves on nearly every aspect of the current version, excluding the size of environments, the inclusion of larger animals, and environmental variation. All of…
- Nature Treks: Together steam page is up and 'coming soon' - 27 May 2021
Hello Everyone, Took a bit longer than expected but the new project is now up on steam as 'coming soon' Link to the announcement for anyone interested https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1521040/view/3008947103094483760 The announcement has more details and I will be responsive on the community hub. Sorry for being a bit unresponsive here but I've really just had my head down trying to get the project over the line. I have also set up a support discord server for all projects. I am logged in whilst working to discord so that will be a good place to reach me if you encounter any issues or have any suggestions. Discord link: https://discord.gg/YU7JF9dh I look forward to continuing to evolve the Nature Treks experience. Best John
- New project announcement. Nature Treks: Together - 1 January 2021
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1521040/Nature_Treks_Together/ Happy new year everyone! 2021 must be a year of hope. I apologize for the relative silence over the last 18 months, our small team and I have been busy trying to evolve the Nature Treks concept. I am grateful to now make a low key announcement of our new project, Nature Treks: Together. The project has been created in partnership with the UK governments innovate scheme, specifically as a response to the Covid -19 pandemic. We hope that the experience will bring benefit to people that have been forced into isolation and are experiencing emotional difficulties as a result of the pressures the global pandemic has created. Giving them an environment to relax, escape, express and ultimately heal. Nature Treks: Together is a multiplayer experience and will be available in Spring 2021, initially for desktop PC Oculus devices. Be…
- Update: Support for scene selection via keyboard inputs and more work on LIV - 7 November 2018
Hello Everyone, I have added support for scene selection via keyboard inputs. This is a common request from organisations that use Nature Treks VR in care homes and hospital locations. The nurse, carer or instructor can switch the scenes using the following keyboard inputs. NOTE: You may need to mouse click in the game window first. 0. Main Menu 1. Blue Moon 2. Turquoise Oasis 3. white waterfall 4. Gray storm 5. Green meadows 6. Blue ocean 7. Red savanna 8. Black beginning 9. White winter F1. Green bamboo F2. Blue deep F3. Orange sunset F4. Violet dawn F5. Red fall F6. Jade Jurassic Escape = Quit I've also fixed LIV mixed reality capture for the main menu. The main menu now uses a single camera. Thanks John
- Update: Integration work for Liv mixed reality capture - 6 November 2018
Hello Everybody, Just adding some work on integrating Liv for mixed reality capture. Here is a quick test from Player Ready VR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaUV1ki2Xv0 There is some issues with the main menu, I think this is due to the duel camera setup so I need to take a look at this. If you disable Liv until your in an environment you should be good to go! Also some work on work on a softer grass shader. Thanks John
- Minor Patch: Fixed double edges caused by antialiasing filter - 11 April 2018
Not a very exiting patch but its been a common request recently. Thanks -John
- Animal Guide added - 1 March 2018
Hello Everyone, As promised I have just added a guide that hopefully gives players an idea of what animals can be encountered within Nature Treks VR and the environments they can be found in. In time I will do more work on the guide. There are still several animals that need adding, mainly smaller fish and some more birds. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1317076104
- Animal Guide added - 1 March 2018
Hello Everyone, As promised I have just added a guide that hopefully gives players an idea of what animals can be encountered within Nature Treks VR and the environments they can be found in. In time I will do more work on the guide. There are still several animals that need adding, mainly smaller fish and some more birds. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1317076104
- NEW UPDATE RELEASED: The Animal Update! - 17 February 2018
Hello Everybody, The new update is finally ready, its taken longer than originally planned but hopefully it is worth it. Its a mixed bag of improvements and additions, most of them based on common requests, I have tried to listen and do what I can to keep improving the experience. I was planning to launch this next week accompanied by some marketing material and a new trailer but I have decided to release early. A pass on all animal models has been completed, a number of new animals have also been added bringing the total number of animal encounters in excess of 60. I will be making a guide of all animals featured and where to find them in the next couple of weeks. A completely new animal behaviour system has been implemented that allows the animals to behave in a more natural manner and lets them herd. The audio has had a complete overhaul with approximately 80% of the audio effects be…
- NEW UPDATE RELEASED: The Animal Update! - 17 February 2018
Hello Everybody, The new update is finally ready, its taken longer than originally planned but hopefully it is worth it. Its a mixed bag of improvements and additions, most of them based on common requests, I have tried to listen and do what I can to keep improving the experience. I was planning to launch this next week accompanied by some marketing material and a new trailer but I have decided to release early. A pass on all animal models has been completed, a number of new animals have also been added bringing the total number of animal encounters in excess of 60. I will be making a guide of all animals featured and where to find them in the next couple of weeks. A completely new animal behaviour system has been implemented that allows the animals to behave in a more natural manner and lets them herd. The audio has had a complete overhaul with approximately 80% of the audio effects be…
- NEW UPDATE RELEASED: New environment 'Green Bamboo' - 8 November 2017
Hello Everybody, After the ocean, space and Halloween themes of the last few updates NTVR goes back to its roots with a new tranquil environment 'Green Bamboo'. Its quite a diverse landscape so hopefully something for everyone, it also includes a new animal, an Asian Tiger. Now we have a good number and broad variety of environments development will now shift toward improving and building on the fundamental experience. Changes in this update include: Added new environment ' Green Bamboo' Added new animal audio Added new audio tracks Fixed some of the color banding in 'Blue Moon' Fixed the flicking fire glitch affecting rift users NOTE: If you experience extreme judder for the first few seconds when entering an environment please exit and re-enter or wait for it to settle down. It seems to happen only on first load - looking into the cause. As always if you have any issues, comments or s…
- NEW UPDATE RELEASED: New environment 'Green Bamboo' - 8 November 2017
Hello Everybody, After the ocean, space and Halloween themes of the last few updates NTVR goes back to its roots with a new tranquil environment 'Green Bamboo'. Its quite a diverse landscape so hopefully something for everyone, it also includes a new animal, an Asian Tiger. Now we have a good number and broad variety of environments development will now shift toward improving and building on the fundamental experience. Changes in this update include: Added new environment ' Green Bamboo' Added new animal audio Added new audio tracks Fixed some of the color banding in 'Blue Moon' Fixed the flicking fire glitch affecting rift users NOTE: If you experience extreme judder for the first few seconds when entering an environment please exit and re-enter or wait for it to settle down. It seems to happen only on first load - looking into the cause. As always if you have any issues, comments or s…
- NEW UPDATE RELEASED: New environment 'Blue Moon' - 26 October 2017
Hello Everybody, A new environment has been added. 'Blue Moon' aims to give a haunting yet beautiful experience, there are no jump scares here, only your imagination. Hopefully it creates a nice atmosphere in time for Halloween. This environment is also different from the others in that it contains some man made structures. There are also some new animals to be found. NOTE: I've noticed an issue with the flickering fire on the Rift, will try and fix it in the next update. Some work on the audio visualization FX has been added. Remember if you toggle off the music these will also stop appearing. Aurora Borealis have been added to 'White Winter' if you toggle the time of day to night. Changes in this update include: Added new environment ' Blue Moon' Added new audio visualisation FX Added Aurora Borealis ef...
- NEW UPDATE RELEASED: New environment 'Blue Moon' - 26 October 2017
Hello Everybody, A new environment has been added. 'Blue Moon' aims to give a haunting yet beautiful experience, there are no jump scares here, only your imagination. Hopefully it creates a nice atmosphere in time for Halloween. This environment is also different from the others in that it contains some man made structures. There are also some new animals to be found. NOTE: I've noticed an issue with the flickering fire on the Rift, will try and fix it in the next update. Some work on the audio visualization FX has been added. Remember if you toggle off the music these will also stop appearing. Aurora Borealis have been added to 'White Winter' if you toggle the time of day to night. Changes in this update include: Added new environment ' Blue Moon' Added new audio visualisation FX Added Aurora Borealis ef...
- NEW UPDATE RELEASED: New environment 'Black Beginning' - 21 September 2017
Hello Everybody, This new update takes you to the stars with a completely new environment and experience. Create stars, planets and solar systems in a tranquil physics based sandbox experience. Glide high above the earth, manifest a beautiful comet storm or simply create a spectacular cosmic forest of 'galaxy trees'. Failing that just send everything into oblivion then meditate inside a singularity (Really you can :)). Changes in this update include: Added new environment ' Black Beginning' Added new audio tracks Added free locomotion for xbox controller users(Rift) Performance improvements (Ongoing) Changed animal Ai so they don't run away from player Various fixes and tweaks Another environment is in production with a new climate type and a host of new animals. I will update the 'update plan' on the discussions board with some more details on the current road map for NTVR. I will cont…
- NEW UPDATE RELEASED: New environment 'Black Beginning' - 21 September 2017
Hello Everybody, This new update takes you to the stars with a completely new environment and experience. Create stars, planets and solar systems in a tranquil physics based sandbox experience. Glide high above the earth, manifest a beautiful comet storm or simply create a spectacular cosmic forest of 'galaxy trees'. Failing that just send everything into oblivion then meditate inside a singularity (Really you can :)). Changes in this update include: Added new environment ' Black Beginning' Added new audio tracks Added free locomotion for xbox controller users(Rift) Performance improvements (Ongoing) Changed animal Ai so they don't run away from player Various fixes and tweaks Another environment is in production with a new climate type and a host of new animals. I will update the 'update plan' on the discussions board with some more details on the current road map for NTVR. I will cont…
- Black Beginning Update: Coming Soon - 20 September 2017
Hello Everybody, Just a note to say that a new update is in the final stages of testing and will be made available soon (Next few days). This update will feature a new environment 'Black Beginning'. The new environment enables you to create stars, planets and solar systems in a tranquil physics based sandbox experience. You can also hover above the earth, manifest a comet storm and create a forest of 'galaxy trees'. Or you can just send everything into oblivion and meditate inside a singularity. There is also new audio, fixes, performance improvements and requested tweaks. A free movement locomotion system has been implemented for Rift users using an Xbox Controller. Another new environment that features a new climate with plenty of new animals is in development for anyone wanting more of that. Once the update is live I will post an announcement as usual. Thanks for supporting the proje…
- Black Beginning Update: Coming Soon - 20 September 2017
Hello Everybody, Just a note to say that a new update is in the final stages of testing and will be made available soon (Next few days). This update will feature a new environment 'Black Beginning'. The new environment enables you to create stars, planets and solar systems in a tranquil physics based sandbox experience. You can also hover above the earth, manifest a comet storm and create a forest of 'galaxy trees'. Or you can just send everything into oblivion and meditate inside a singularity. There is also new audio, fixes, performance improvements and requested tweaks. A free movement locomotion system has been implemented for Rift users using an Xbox Controller. Another new environment that features a new climate with plenty of new animals is in development for anyone wanting more of that. Once the update is live I will post an announcement as usual. Thanks for supporting the proje…
- UPDATE RELEASED: Full 3dRudder axis support for 'Blue Deep' - 1 August 2017
Hello Everybody, Just a small update for 3dRudder users. Users of 3dRudder controller can now enjoy full axis support in 'Blue Deep'. In terms of other update news there are 2 new environments being worked on, new animals are being added and new audio visualisation features are also in progress. As always if you have any issues, comments or suggestions please let me know and I will be sure to listen and take a look. Thanks for supporting the project. -John
- UPDATE RELEASED: Full 3dRudder axis support for 'Blue Deep' - 1 August 2017
Hello Everybody, Just a small update for 3dRudder users. Users of 3dRudder controller can now enjoy full axis support in 'Blue Deep'. In terms of other update news there are 2 new environments being worked on, new animals are being added and new audio visualisation features are also in progress. As always if you have any issues, comments or suggestions please let me know and I will be sure to listen and take a look. Thanks for supporting the project. -John
