A 3D idle farming game for VR that uses a portal to allow users to see and interact with the scene presented inside of it, while inside of any other VR game

## About This Game
Portable Farm is a new type of SteamVR overlay that displays 3D objects and
scenes through a two-dimensional portal, allowing users to reach inside and
interact with objects on another dimension, on top of their normal VR
experience. Meaning; idle games and other such concepts are now possible
within VR!

***NOTE: Due to the nature of this application running alongside VR games, it
has a problem with CPU bottlenecking in some systems, it’s recommended for
users to try out the demo provided, to gauge if their system can handle
running this application and their VR games at the same time***

Water your crops, till the ground, and plant your choice of seeds to go from
humble beginnings to a fully decorated and upgraded farm! Chat with your
friends in social games while caring for your crops, take a break from the
action in intense games for some farming, or simply make that loading screen
feel a bit faster with something to do.

Enjoy your farm in a variety of games and experiences, and take it with you
anywhere!

Time passes in the farm even when you’re not looking at it, making it perfect
for touch-and-go management, and over time the seasons will change and more
crops will be available, maybe even some new decorations to be found!
## Key Features:
* Reposition and resize the portal to any location for maximum convenience, as well as options for fine-tuning comfort
* Simple interaction with all elements using one configurable grip button
* Upgrades that make farming easier and more profitable
* Decorations to customize your farm however you like
* Seasons change at the start of each month, changing how land looks
* Seasonal crops provide a large variety of choices in what to plant
* Passive growing of the plants allows crops to grow while users are away
* Fertilize your ground, or plant some clover, to help you plants grow faster, and prevent the soil from drying out quickly
* Bring the farm into any VR game using a unique gesture to open and close the portal, allowing users to not have to worry about the controls interfering with their main VR game
## FAQ
* ## I started the application but I can’t see the portal? / The portal is too far away!
This can happen with some setups involving space movers, go to the desktop UI
and click the “Recenter Portal” button, then grab the portal to see through it
while moving it around, if the farming terrain is not nearby, then click the
“Recenter Player” button which will move the player in front of the farming
terrain. If the portal still doesn’t show up, try a restart of the app, if
this doesn’t work, the last rare occurrence was when the app couldn’t
recognize the SteamVR program, which was solved by re-installing SteamVR.
* ## I don’t like having to reposition the portal every time I move while it’s closed
There is an option on the UI of the game that allows you to have the portal
follow your location and/or your rotation while it it closed, making it stay
in the same place relative to you from when you closed it, so all you have to
do is close the portal when it’s at a comfortable position and that will be
restored relative to you, no matter where you move while the portal is closed.
* ## I notice some “wavey”-ness when my head is closer to the portal
This is due to the display method, to have the portal father back without
cutting off the front of the terrain, unchecking the “Set Near Clip To Portal”
option will allow you to move the portal back, without it cutting out what’s
in front of the portal (ie: between you and the portal, rather than behind the
portal), making it much more comfortable to look at since it’s farther away,
adjusting the scale can also make it easier to sit the portal further back on
the terrain.
* ## My crops aren’t growing!
It could be that you planted crops from another season, which won’t grow
during the wrong season, unless the block they are planted on has been
upgraded to override that. Check the shop’s bottom shelf to see what crops can
grow when.
* ## I can’t buy anything from the seed shop because I have no money left!
You only start out with 20 money, so you can usually only buy 1-2 seeds to
start out. If you end up in a place where you have no more money for seeds
from the shop, no crops growing and nothing to return to the shop that would
give you money back, within 60 seconds the game should check that you’re at a
dead-end and will restore your money count to 20.
* ## I skipped the tutorial, can’t get the gesture to work, or forgot how the gesture works!
If you can’t remember the gesture or want to see the tutorial again, pressing
F3 on the desktop UI and then pressing the “Show tutorial again” button will
run through the tutorial again, showing off the gesture with rotational axis
labelled. If the gesture is too hard, or you can’t twist your hands fast
enough, you can lower the slider value on the lower left of the UI, which
should make the gesture much easier to trigger
* ## Can other people in the game see the farm?
Unfortunately no, they will simply see you doing motions with your arms on
invisible objects, much like how people in real life perceive what people in
VR are doing.
* ## How do I reach the back of the farm easier? How do I move the farm terrain to a better position for me?
The desktop UI has settings for this such as enabling temporary shift handles
on the terrain, allowing users to grab and pull them to move the terrain
around, as well as other options like enabling a world grab anchor, which
allows players to move the portal and the terrain around simultaneously to a
better place in their play area. Other options including following the player
while the portal is closed, for those ever-moving players who don’t want the
portal to stay in a specific spot in their play space. change
## Comfort Options
This section will explain all of the comfort options present in the app
* ## Set Near Clip To Portal
“Near clip” refers to whether or not the portal will cut off (or not render)
things that are in front of the portal (as opposed to behind it, from the
viewer’s perspective), turning this on can make more sense visually, turning
it off makes it easier to place the portal farther back from the player and
view more of the farm easily.
* ## Enable World Grab Anchor
Turning this on will enable a globe-like icon on the portal, and if the player
grabs this icon the entire portal and terrain will move with the player’s
hand, allowing the player to place the farm anywhere they like easily. Turning
it off simply hides this globe icon.
* ## World Grab Anchor Also Rotates
(This option will be locked while the option above is toggled off)
Turning this on will allow the previously mentioned world grab anchor to
rotate with the player’s hand when grabbed. Turning this off means the world
grab anchor will only move the terrain and portal, not rotate it.
* ## Enable Temporary Terrain Shift Handles
With this on, green and brown terrain shift handles appear on the front
corners of the terrain, allowing players to move the terrain around
temporarily while held, making it easy for players to reach the back of the
farming terrain without having to lean. When the handles are released, the
terrain goes back to where it was before the player grabbed the handles.
* ## Portal Follows Player While Closed
Turning this on will have the portal and terrain follow the player
positionally while closed, allowing it to always be near the player when they
open the portal again. This is good for players who move around a lot when
playing. To allow the portal and terrain to rotate and match the front of the
player’s vision, see the next option.
* ## Portal Also Follows Player Rotation
(This option will be locked while the option above is toggled off)
Turning this on will have the portal also follow the player’s rotation when
closed, allowing the player to rotate around while the portal is inactive, and
have the portal always be in front of them when they bring it up again.
* ## Require “Gesture Unlock” button to allow portal to activate with gesture
This setting is for those who find they activate the gesture too often while
playing their game, while this setting is active the gesture can only turn on
if the button bound to “Unlock Gesture” (via the Steam VR bindings menu, which
can be accessed by clicking “Show/Edit Bindings” as the button is NOT bound by
default) is held down, allowing users to make sure the portal only turns on
when they want it to.
* ## Toggle Gesture Speed Threshold
If the gesture is too hard to activate reliably, lowering this slide can make
it easier to trigger, conversely raising it can make the gesture harder to
trigger, as it changes the rotational velocity your hands have to be moving at
to trigger the command.
* ## FPS Input Field
To set the FPS of the portal, simply enter your desired number and press
enter, this number is saved across sessions. Lowering this number can make the
portal look slightly more jittery, but also decrease the CPU load the program
has on the user’s computer.

Portable Farm