The game now knows where the player is looking. Until now head tracking
only moved the camera the renderer drew from, so anything consulting the
player's view angles - objectives that ask them to look at something, aim,
hit detection - never saw it. CL_VRMove writes the head's heading and
pitch into cl.viewangles, which is what all of that reads.
Walking follows the off hand rather than the gaze, after the approach in
Team Beef's RTCWQuest. Tying travel to where the player is looking means
they cannot glance sideways without veering, which is what makes room
scale movement feel like being dragged; steering with the free hand lets
them look around and still walk a straight line. cl_vrWalkWithView
restores gaze-directed movement.
Turning snaps by default. A stick that rotates the world smoothly while
the inner ear insists otherwise is the usual way to make people ill, and
one flick gives one step rather than one per frame.
cl_vrSnapAngle 45 degrees per flick
cl_vrSmoothTurn 0 1 for smooth turning instead
cl_vrTurnSpeed 90 degrees/second when smooth
cl_vrDeadzone 0.2
cl_vrWalkWithView 0 1 to walk where the player looks
All archived, so they are tunable on the headset rather than at build
time, which is what section 5 of the porting plan asks for.
Thumbsticks are bound on the Touch profile only: the simple controller
has none, and offering a binding a runtime does not recognise makes it
reject the whole set, which would cost the fallback its pointer too.
The dominant hand's aim angles are carried through vrInput_t but not yet
used. Aim is still on the head, which section 5 is right to call wrong
for a shooter - that belongs with weapon handling, and looking at things
had to work first.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
