leetvr / hotham

Hotham is a tool for creating incredible standalone VR games.
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Installation instructions unclear for me #331

Closed atrefonas closed 2 years ago

atrefonas commented 2 years ago

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I wanted to play around with this on Windows with my Oculus, but I can't understand all the installation instructions in https://github.com/leetvr/hotham/wiki/Getting-started.

How do I install shaderc? On their Github it isn't clear to me. I downloaded the binary from one of their links but it's a zip without an installer and I don't know what to do afterwards

kanerogers commented 2 years ago

Hey there @atrefonas! I'm so sorry you had such a bad onboarding experience to Hotham. We're doing our best to keep the Wiki up-to-date, but are totally aware that there's many confusing - and sometimes contradictory - steps on that list.

I'll try to reply to each of these points one by one!

adb devices doesn't work, and don't understand which installation it would come from

Good pickup! adb should have been part of your Android SDK installation. It should be wherever you installed the SDK - Google has some documentation that may help.

We use shaderc to compile our shaders at build time, so you'll need to make sure it's installed and available on your PATH.

Ah that's a very good point. You're probably better off installing the Vulkan SDK to get shaderc, so if that works better for you let me know and we'll update the instructions accordingly.

If there's anything else you get stuck with - and given how complicated this all is, that's very likely - please drop into our Discord! There's lots of friendly, helpful people there who can give you a hand.

Thanks again for taking a look at Hotham!

kanerogers commented 2 years ago

Closing this one off due to inactivity. We definitely need to work on our docs more; in the meantime Discord is the best way to get suport.