Playspace Mover has been deprecated! Check out OVR Advanced Settings on Steam instead: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1009850/OVR_Advanced_Settings/
Playspace Mover
Lets you drag around your playspace by gripping certain buttons. This allows you to "climb" around certain games, and allows you to adjust your floor level on the fly. This is compatible with KinectToVR, and can run in tandem with any SteamVR app.
If you want to help support this kind of development, feel free to support me through google wallet ([email protected]), paypal (https://paypal.me/naelstrof), or through my Digital Tip Jar!
Installation
- Requires VR Input Emulator, which an easy installer can be found here.
- Grab a PlayspaceMover executable from the releases page.
- Extract anywhere!
Usage
- While SteamVR is running, run PlayspaceMover.exe. Make sure it says
Ready!. - In VR, hold down either X/Y or the Vive menu buttons to drag your playspace!
Configuration (Advanced!)
Controls
PlayspaceMover can be configured to use different kinds of bindings, currently it only supports button presses. You can change the default buttons by setting button masks in the options. This can be done through either a shortcut, or a commandline.
I find the easiest way is to experiment using the command line, then set up a permanent config with a shortcut!
Open a command line in the folder with PlayspaceMover.exe like so:
If you're on Oculus, type ./PlayspaceMover.exe -l 128 -r 128 --resetButtonMask 2 then press enter!
If you're on Vive, try typing ./PlayspaceMover.exe -l 2 -r 2 --resetButtonMask 4 then press enter!
Physics
PlayspaceMover supports some basic physics! Click here for a video. Here's a list of some of the options, their defaults, and what they do.
| Optionγγγγγγγγγγγ | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| --physics | N/A | If specified, enables physics. Physics will automatically be enabled anyway if you specify any of the options below though. |
| --gravity | 9.81 | How much acceleration is applied to your y velocity every frame in meters per second. |
| --friction | 8 | How much force is applied opposing your velocity while on the ground. |
| --airFriction | 0 | How much force is applied opposing your velocity while in the air. |
| --jumpMultiplier | 80 | How much force is applied when you try throwing yourself. |
| --noGround | N/A | If specified, disables ground collision (You probably should have gravity set to 0 if you use this tag.) |
| --leftTogglePhysicsMask | 0 | Specifies which buttons you have to hold simultaneously on the left controller to toggle physics. |
| --rightTogglePhysicsMask | 0 | Specifies which buttons you have to hold simultaneously on the right controller to toggle physics. |
Fake Full Body Tracking
If your game requires full body tracking, you can make PlayspaceMover spawn some fake trackers! The following options enable/configure this feature.
| Optionγγγγγγγ | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| --fakeTrackers | N/A | Enables and spawns fake trackers that follow your HMD around. |
| --orbitTracker | N/A | Alternative positioning scheme for the trackers |
| --bodyHeight | 2 | Sets your body height in meters, it uses this to calculate where to place your feet and hip trackers. This also automatically enables --fakeTrackers. |
Permanent Config
To make this change "permanent", you can create a new shortcut by right-click dragging it to your desktop.
Then edit it's properties by right-clicking on it, and hitting properties. Then append your desired button mask parameters to the "Target:" section. (Don't override it!)
Done! Double click on that shortcut to launch your configured playspace mover!
Try ./PlayspaceMover.exe --help for more help on bit-masks and other stuff!
Bitmask Table
Here's a list of the known button bits. There's a couple more for Oculus that aren't listed because I haven't bothered testing for them!
Oculus masks
| Button | Bit | Mask |
|---|---|---|
| A/X | 7 | 128 |
| B/Y | 1 | 2 |
Vive masks
| Button | Bit | Mask |
|---|---|---|
| Menu | 1 | 2 |
| Grip | 2 | 4 |
Tips
- VR Input emulator likes to keep HUGE logs if you're on oculus (18+GB), set
X:/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/drivers/00vrinputemulator/bin/win64/driver_vrinputemulator.logto read-only to prevent this! - Restarting the application by closing it or pressing Ctrl+C will reset your playspace.
Compiling Instructions (Developers Only)
Download Third-Party Libraries
First we have to collect all the libraries that can't be grabbed using nuget.
- Git-clone and extract VRPlayspaceMover's source code. (Download Zip on the top right, or use a git client to clone.)
- Download and extract glm-0.9.9-a2 from here to
PlayspaceMover/third-party. - Download and extract the latest OpenVR zip from here to
PlayspaceMover/third-party. - Download and extract the latest OpenVR-InputEmulator source code zip from here to
PlayspaceMover/third-party.
Compile Third-Party Dependencies
- Ensure you have Visual Studio, and the Windows 10 SDK installed. You can find them here and here respectively.
- Open
PlayspaceMover/third-party/OpenVR-InputEmulator-1.3/VRInputEmulator.slnwith whichever Visual Studio you have. - You should get a Retarget Solution window where you can retarget the solution to the v141 toolset.
- Install
boost, andboost-vc141with nuget. (Right-click on the project and press Manage nuget packages.) - In lib_vrinputemulator's properties, add
PlayspaceMover/third-party/openvr/headersas an include folder. - Right-click on lib_vrinputemulator, and press Build. You should now have a libvrinputemulator.lib.
- Rename that library to libvrinputemulator-d.lib, then compile a release version too by changing into Release mode.
Configure VRPlayspaceMover Until It Compiles!
- Open
PlayspaceMover/PlayspaceMover.slnwith Visual Studio. - Install
boost, andboost-vc141with nuget. (Right-click on the project and press Manage nuget packages.) - Right-click on the VRPlayspaceMover project, and change the include directories to look similar to the image below.
- Then change the library directories to look similar to the image below.
- Compile and you're done!
