BetterVR is a flatscreen-to-VR conversion mod for The Legend Of Zelda: Breath of the Wild that's releasing 2 days after the release of this video. It'll be a freely available and will have be open-source.
For more info and the release countdown, go to:
https://crementif.github.io/BotW-BetterVR
Features:
- Fully stereo-rendered with 6DOF. No alternated eye rendering is used.
- Full hands and arms support. You can drip yourself out in all the fanciest clothes.
- Wield weapons, torches and bokoblin arms into combat.
- Gestures to equip and throw weapons.
- Use motion controls to interact with the world to solve puzzles or start fires.
- Optional third-person mode.
- Large mod compatibility. BetterVR only modifies the code and no game data. Most other mods should be compatible.
This mod requires using Cemu to emulate the Wii U version of Breath Of The Wild on your PC. It requires a legal copy of the game. No game files are supplied by this mod.
For more info and cool gameplay clips until then, follow:
- https://discord.gg/flat2vr This hub has multiple discord channels where you can chat with me and see announcements as soon as they come out.
- https://youtube.com/@crementif for new clips every day, including a big one that I'll post whenever this mod releases!
- https://x.com/Flat2VR for releases, news and other clips
MOTIVATION:
5 years ago during Covid-19 I started this project because I really wanted to chop down trees in VR. And from there it just grew way bigger and way better then I thought was feasible...
STATE OF THE MOD:
While I put a lot of effort into this mod, not everything works. Expect some jank that'll be resolved over time.
AMD graphic cards might not be supported (at launch at least). During testing we could not get it to work on an AMD system due to a driver bug.
PERFORMANCE:
Performance will not be as good as a native VR title due to CPU-heavy emulation. During testing, frame interpolation made it very playable on the systems listed below, that were also used for recording this trailer:
- i9-13900K, RTX 4090, 32 GB RAM, Pimax Crystal Super
- Ryzen 7600x, RTX 3060 12GB, 32GB RAM, Meta Quest 3
CREDITS:
- Crementif: Main Developer
- Holydh: Developed some of the new input systems
- Exzap: Technical support and optimization help
- Mako Marci: Edited the trailer
- Tim, Mako Marci, Solarwolf07 & Elliott Tate: Helped with testing, recording, feedback and support