ZEQ2 Lite

Friday, May 20, 2016

UPDATE: GOAL!

$229.87!

That means donations have reached and surpassed the goal! Awesome stuff!

Goal met!

The $14.92 left over from surpassing the goal can be carried over to the next payment in 2 years time

Thank you again for all your donations, you're keeping this community alive, and all the projects that are hosted on the server too!

For those that wonder about using ads on the site to generate income for hosting; In this day and age, that isn't a viable source of funding. Everyone uses ad blockers (and rightly so!) and we don't get enough traffic to make it feasible.

And we prefer going the ad-free route for all our users for the best user experience

Thank you once again!

Original post wrote :

Hi there! It's that time again.

The host, Dreamhost, which provides ZEQ2-lite with this site, forums, and SVN for the project, are asking for hosting payment once more.

The due date is July 20th.

Dreamhost hosting costs $214.80 every two years.

I humbly ask, for donations to raise enough funds to pay for another 2 years of hosting.

We managed to do it the last three times, can we do it again?

Even just $1 would be extremely helpful, it adds up!
If you are interested, then read on

If donations exceed the total required, then they will carry on over for the next 2 years of hosting, or if you wish a refund.

If we don't reach the total required, then all donations will be refunded back, something bad will happen, like the host shutting us down.

I can refund your donation at any time if you wish.

Donate using this page: Here.

If you get problems with that page, then you can send donations via PayPal to this address: [email protected]

Thank you for reading, please support ZEQ2-lite!

All those that donate will definitely be worshipped like Lloyds for keeping this place alive

We have $95.01 to start off with from last time since we had that much more then we needed previously already a large amount there!

Total money raised: $229.87

Donator Heroes:

Skatter: $25.17
Shenku: $65.67
Charlie: $43.87

Friday, May 20, 2016

I don't get paid until next week, so if we still haven't reached the goal by then, I'll put up as much as I can spare then.

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Still waiting on my vr version mate:p

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Can't believe it's this time again... Time flies way too quickly.

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Domitjen wrote : Still waiting on my vr version mate:p

You forgot the builds I sent you? Although they were glitchy haha. Biggest problem is how the engine renders in such a way that is not made for stereoscopic views using GLSL shaders, unfortunately. It conflicts with our engine stuff. Something beyond my skill level, as the implementation I put in that was available for ioquake3 was itself incomplete too, based on the very first Oculus SDK. Best bet would be to see if there is a finished or more up to date implementation based on the latest Oculus SDK, and hope it doesn't conflict too much with our own engine rendering changes.

Or wait for a Unity build of ZEQ2-Lite if only we had supporters for that though...

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Still waiting on my vr version mate:p

Donations are strictly for svn/site/forum hosting. Not development in any shape or form.

Sunday, May 22, 2016

MDave wrote :

Domitjen wrote : Still waiting on my vr version mate:p

You forgot the builds I sent you? Although they were glitchy haha. Biggest problem is how the engine renders in such a way that is not made for stereoscopic views using GLSL shaders, unfortunately. It conflicts with our engine stuff. Something beyond my skill level, as the implementation I put in that was available for ioquake3 was itself incomplete too, based on the very first Oculus SDK. Best bet would be to see if there is a finished or more up to date implementation based on the latest Oculus SDK, and hope it doesn't conflict too much with our own engine rendering changes.

Or wait for a Unity build of ZEQ2-Lite if only we had supporters for that though...

Hehe, I know, don't worry, I was merely joking. Don't take my comment too seriously. I know that it's almost improbable, I just couldn't resist myself..you know me :p

Monday, May 23, 2016

Well, it's certainly possible to do, but I'd definitely recommend it in another engine (certainly not Quake 3). Also, VR is mostly benefited from a first person perspective rather than a third-person one -- so that'd require a change in some interaction dynamics.

I'd recommend opening a thread (or finding the old one better yet) if you want to continue discussion.

Monday, May 23, 2016

Zeth wrote : Well, it's certainly possible to do, but I'd definitely recommend it in another engine (certainly not Quake 3). Also, VR is mostly benefited from a first person perspective rather than a third-person one -- so that'd require a change in some interaction dynamics.

I'd recommend opening a thread (or finding the old one better yet) if you want to continue discussion.

No need to open another thread because I will not go further into this because I know what the end result will be anyway. But I do want to tell you that third person vr games are sometimes even better than first person ones. of course when they are made for vr from the ground up.

Take Chrones,edge of tomorrow or Luckey's Tale for example, when showing trailers of those games on a simple monitor, everyone will feel a bit underwhelmed, but when people actually played them on a vr headset they were proven wrong going by the reviews.

First person vr games are a bit tougher to deal with the locomotion and such.

That's all

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

And our first donation rolls in!

£17.26 or $25.17 when converted

This brings the total to $120.18!

And the honour goes to: Skatter!

Thank you very much

Friday, May 27, 2016

Donation sent.

Friday, May 27, 2016

Shenku, wow! £44.86 converted is $65.67!

Bringing the total to $185.85.

Thanks a million

Friday, May 27, 2016

MDave wrote : Shenku, wow! £44.86 converted is $65.67!

Bringing the total to $185.85.

Thanks a million

Was it? The converter I used must have been broken then, cause I was shooting for $50 when I checked the exchange rate this morning...

Ah well, not a big deal so long as it gets us closer to the funding goal.

Saturday, May 28, 2016

The exchange rate might change again when it comes time for the Dreamhost payment. I wonder if I can create a US paypal account, although because I don't have a bank in the US it wouldn't be a verified account, and make transferring money slower going through Paypal's system ...

Will get someone with a US Paypal to collect donations next time hah!

No worries though, even if the exchange rate is worse by the time of Dreamhost payment, I will pay the difference!

EDIT: I realise there is also a difference between the regular exchange rate when you use Google, and Paypal's exchange rate. Because Paypal take a small amount for the exchange, I suppose that might be why it looks more then the regular exchange rate.

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Alrighty then! Received a £30 donation from Charlie!

Converted to dollars at the time of this post, is $43.87.

Bringing the total to ...

$229.87!

Thank you so much Charlie! Awesome of you to donate

That means donations have reached and surpassed the goal! Awesome stuff!

Goal met!

The $14.92 left over from surpassing the goal can be carried over to the next payment in 2 years time

Thank you again for all your donations, you're keeping this community alive, and all the projects that are hosted on the server too!

For those that wonder about using ads on the site to generate income for hosting; In this day and age, that isn't a viable source of funding. Everyone uses ad blockers (and rightly so!) and we don't get enough traffic to make it feasible.

And we prefer going the ad-free route for all our users for the best user experience

Thank you once again!

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Thanks for your help guys! Let's continue this amazing adventure on all the hosted projects; hopefully reaching our goals the soonest!

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Sweet deal, that didn't take long to raise the funds at all this time.