Getting Started

Welcome Installation Setup

Concepts

VR Origin Physics Layers

Features

Movement Features Interaction Features Standard objects

Player

Player Body Hand Models Hand Poses Physics resource Vignette

Movement

Climbing Crouching Direct Movement Flight Glide Grapple Jog Jump Physical Jump Teleport Turn Wall Walk Wind World Grab

Interaction

Pickup Function Pointer Poke

Objects

Climbable Objects Pickable Objects Grab Points Snap Zone

Staging

Direct Movement

Introduction

Direct movement allows the user to move using controller input, it uses either the joystick or thumbpad that can be found on many XR controllers.

It uses the ‘PlayerBody’ node to support collisions with the environment. This node will be added automatically to your scene if it doesn’t exist yet.

The main issue with direct movement is that it can easily result in dizziness on the part of the player. Especially rotating the player leads to many players getting nauseated.

We combat this in three ways:

direction of movement is always in relation to the direction the player is looking.
it is possible to configure a step value for the rotation. Instead of smoothly rotating around the player the direction the player is looking will rotate a fixed number of degrees at a fixed pace. While this looks jerky it is a very efficient way to combat nausea.
you can add a Vignette that blacks out the player’s peripheral vision.

Setup

The direct movement is implemented as a function scene that needs to be added to the controller node whose input we are using.

So if we want to implement the direct movement feature on the right hand controller we need to add the scene to the right hand: Direct Movement Setup

Note that we recommend adding the ability to your game for the user to configure the movement controls. This can be achieved by modifying the MovementDirect configuration such as enabling or disabling.

The functionality works out of the box but can be further configured: Direct Movement Configuration

Configuration

XRToolsMovementDirect

Property	Description
Enabled	When ticked the movement function is enabled.
Order	The order in which this movement is applied when multiple movement functions are used.
Max Speed	The maximum speed at which we can move, note that this is never reached depending on the drag factor configured on the player body.
Strafe	Enables left/right control of strafing.
Input Action	The OpenXR Vector2 action to use for input.

Additional Resources

The following videos show the creation of a basic XR Player with hands and movement:

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