Lhun: The feeling is mutual. Although, I highly doubt we will see movement controls of that level of sophistication in the near future in VRChat.

MehStrongBadMeh: Imagine being able to look over your shoulder when playing Steel and Gold? One day...

Zarniwoop: I personally can't take games like Steel n' Gold and CTF in VRChat seriously with the crappy VRChat movement controls. When I am looking to play a game, I'd rather play a different VR game with better controls.

MehStrongBadMeh: "onward style" movement isn't hard at all to implement actually. One other thing I shoud note is that it's bad on the trackpads to have to hold them down to move. I'm going to have to repair one of mine again.

they can do this: but it's recommended that Lerp-ing your rotation from current to wanted rotation - the below causes a bit of stuttering but it works.

Essentially you want to bind forward to a simple touch (not PRESS) of the top half of the trackpad to the direction you are POINTING your offhand - not your face. Do this once per frame, don't buffer movement input at all, and uncouple head and movement unless they are not activating the movement button so they can move normally in the play area. You can use the bottom half for "backwards" and only enable snap turning on a left or right actual press of the touchpad. There's no reason to use presses for anything movement related and they could be used for some other purpose that way. Same goes on oculus, replace touchpad with stick. You can also bind movement to something completely different, like, if you're pressing the offhand menu button or holding the grip. You only need 1 button really if you're okay with the user having to point the controller behind them, which is just fine most of the time.

using UnityEngine;

using System.Collections;

publicclassPlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour {

privatebool currentlyMoving;

privatefloat multiplier =0.01f;

Vector2 touchPos;

Quaternion controllerRotation;

// Use this for initialization

void Start () {

}

// Update is called once per frame

void FixedUpdate () {

if (currentlyMoving) {

// Rotating MovementController

transform.rotation =Quaternion.Euler(0, controllerRotation.eulerAngles.y, 0);

// Moving MovementController

transform.position +=newVector3(touchPos.x multiplier);

}

}

publicvoid StartMoving(Vector2 touchCoords, Quaternion rotation) {

controllerRotation = rotation;

touchPos = touchCoords;

currentlyMoving =true;

}

publicvoid EndMoving() {

currentlyMoving =false;

}

}

Lhun: Would be cool. But to be honest if I am just roaming around and don't play games I sit in a chair or the floor most of the time. But for CTF it would be a nice addition.

Hagbard Celine: I'm standing nearly 100% of the time when I'm playing unless I'm actually sitting in the game, I know many vr users that do the same.

ZEON: It strikes me as weird that people bring this up so often, considering I have never heard of other video games adding features to accommodate broken hardware. Regardless, if having crappy digital movement is considered to be important for these users, then it could always be implemented as a toggleable option.

MehStrongBadMeh: well yeah thats what i meant. an option to have touch locomotion on and off through the system menu or something. :/

Kouki Elska: A change log on a previous updated stated that "Hand gesture should reset to default when user removes finger from vive pad [Community Request]". When I pressed them on the matter, they confirmed that, despite being in the change log, they never actually implemented the feature.