vr.anti_aliasing now takes fxaa, smaa or off. SMAA runs the reference
implementation (third_party/smaa, MIT) at its High preset: luma edge
detection and blending weights into per-eye images, then neighborhood
blending into the runtime's swapchain through FXAA's final pass. Its area and
search lookup textures are uploaded once per device. If SMAA cannot be set
up, the eyes fall back to FXAA.
Also export vr.anti_aliasing from config.yaml: the VR backend reads the
process environment, so the setting only worked as an environment variable.
On a Quest 2 through SteamVR at 120 Hz (2136x2236 per eye), SMAA ran at 118.6
fps against 118.8 for FXAA, with p99 frame times of 10.1 and 9.5 ms.
vr.mode in config.yaml picks how Nightcap starts: off on the desktop, on in
VR, auto in VR only when this user's SteamVR is running and its OpenXR
runtime reports a headset. auto never starts SteamVR, and asks its runtime
from a short-lived copy of the process so the runtime's libraries do not load
before the VR backend arms. vr.enabled still works as on/off, and --vr or
--no-vr still override the file for one launch.
VR now stays off at runtime in every build until --vr or vr.enabled: true,
so a normal launch on a VR-capable build never tries to reach an OpenXR
runtime and no longer exits when none is running.
MOCKTAIL_ENABLE_VR defaults to AUTO: OpenXR support is built when the
third_party/OpenXR-SDK submodule is present and skipped with a notice
otherwise, so source packages that do not fetch submodules (Nix, AUR) keep
building. ON still requires the submodule. mocktail-vr-probe is only built
and installed in VR builds.
CI gains an x86_64 job that builds and tests with MOCKTAIL_ENABLE_VR=OFF.
The config docs and README describe the new defaults.
vr.frame_rate_limit / MOCKTAIL_VR_FRAME_RATE_LIMIT replaces
graphics.frame_rate_limit while VR is active and takes the same values.
It defaults to unlimited so xrWaitFrame paces Roblox at the headset
refresh rate instead of Roblox's own 60 FPS cap.
MOCKTAIL_VR_RENDER_SCALE scales the runtime's recommended eye extent.
SteamVR's recommendation for a Quest 2 at 90 Hz (2244x2352 per eye) missed
the 11.1 ms budget and halved the rate to 45 FPS.
MOCKTAIL_VR_UNPACED=1 stops guest frames from blocking in xrWaitFrame:
the open XR frame spans several guest frames and is submitted once per
display period, for measuring maximum render rate.
Default title is Roblox, details "Playing {place_name}", and state
"by {creator_name}". The creator comes from the games API response
already fetched for the place name. A text field that expands an
empty placeholder is left out, so the state never shows a bare "by".
text.title sets the activity name, images.* set the large and small icons and hover text, and text.state may be empty to hide it. Text and image fields expand {place_name} and {place_icon}; fields that render empty are omitted. show_place_name: false now also hides the place thumbnail.
Relative-mode motion reports zero absolute coordinates, so the router
accumulates deltas. The accumulator was never clamped, only the copy sent
to the engine, so a long turn pushed it far outside the viewport and every
reversal was swallowed until the pointer travelled all the way back.
input.raw_mouse sends look deltas in host units instead of guest surface
units. Those differ only when the desktop display scale and the window's
pixel density disagree, as under fractional scaling. Default off.
vkAcquireNextImageKHR(): A swapchain no longer matches the surface properties exactly, but can still be used to present to the surface successfully. (VK_SUBOPTIMAL_KHR) (1000001003)
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