@markmoddy it's really hard to figure out unless you have the input debugger open in the unity editor. Have you tried the latest version of the game that I released that has direct input support? That should just work if you enable the prefer direct input toggle. Though there have been some issues (mainly with Logitech wheels).

See post here: http://www.uhlhydroplanes.com/topic/271/hydrosim-v0-8-1-1

@kebos Can you attach the player.log file here?

It's located in C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\LocalLow\HydroSim\HydroSim.

Someone else was having crashes in windows 11 and it seemed related to having their wheel plugged in I think.

@chadskull I made some step-by-step instructions on how to do this.
http://www.uhlhydroplanes.com/topic/161/how-to-download-new-paint-schemes-for-hydrosim
http://www.uhlhydroplanes.com/topic/162/how-to-install-new-paint-schemes-for-hydrosim

@scott-przybylski Looks like MelDev on steam?

@skid2206 The only thing I know of that causes this is if you copied the 0.8.0.0 beta on top of an existing 0.7.0.0 install.

@smity199m You can, but it's really hard to drive with keyboard, especially turning or using the canard, because it's not analog. If you have a game console, you could probably use the gamepad from that.

@scott-przybylski
Yeah I hear you. I'm going to add some Ram and see how it goes. Seems a great laptop even as it is now. Otherwise will try to acquire a more suitable CPU. Love this game

Cheers for the input my man.

@racer It was not, I still haven't added support for different in-cockpit sounds. Now that I've been moving everything into bundles, I plan to change how the audio is setup which will make it harder to mod.

@normallard1 The problem is that you likely copied a newer build on top of an older one. There were some changes to the audio file structure with the bundle system updates.

@picko I got on yay

@jseven27 Click on the button on the top left of the screen that looks like a speedometer. Then to start the boat you have to press and hold the "I" key. You can remap the ignition to any button you want in the settings menu.

@picko There's currently a league race going on, thus the password. Normally, there is no password for the official servers.

@cp65 Thanks for answering this. Just to follow up, I'm currently in the process of re-working how the game loads race courses and boats, so that these things can be updated without having to update the entire game and make everyone re-download it. Nothing is going to be removed, I was just running into some file size limits with the git repo I store the game in, and so I've decided to split it up into pieces to address the issue.

Good question, I never really played with Unreal, I don't think it was free when I started all of this. I think Unity had a free version, but it was very limited. I actually started out using a game engine called Torque 3D, but struggled quite a bit with it.

I started messing with Unity in 2016 after playing Design It Drive It Speedboats made in Unity by Todd Wasson. I found that Unity's Asset Store made it really easy to get started. At the time the water assets for Unity were much better. I'm not sure if this is the case anymore, but at this point I don't think switching engines is an option.

I'm pretty sure that both Unreal and Unity use the NVIDIA PhysX engine for physics, so there isn't really a difference there. All the boat physics is custom code calculating forces that just feed into the physics engine.

@mickey Thanks for the reply Mickey I will try that. I don't think I will run Hydrosim much longer on my laptop as heat is an issue and it gobbles up the battery. Otherwise it's pretty impressive!

Thrustmaster T248 seems to work in the tester

@scott-przybylski
Thanks Scott.

I actually been able to get my pedals to work. Now. When I up on the course, I have a very hard time to keep the boat going straight. It always seems to want to go left or right.

But the bottom line is my thrustmaster is not the best wheel to play this mod.

Thanks for the help.

JP