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dantman / elite-vr-cockpit

A SteamVR Overlay providing a virtual throttle and joystick and holographic buttons for ship functions, with custom integration into Elite Dangerous
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Weird UI and galaxy navigation with WMR #258

Closed Thisisrhun closed 3 years ago

Thisisrhun commented 3 years ago

Hi,

First of all, thanks for the amazing work with this app.

I just bought ED because of your app and I must say it's amazing to be able to sit inside the cockpit and control the ship with the virtual HOTAS as well as the holobuttons. All this is working as intended, or so I think...

The problem comes when navigating through the 1-4 panels, the menu and the galaxy map.

In cockpit panels:

When looking at the 1-4 panels I know I need to grab the stick and swipe touchpad to move, then fire to select (joystick/hat does nothing in the UI or elsewhere). To change tabs I need to press secondary which is the menu button on WMR. The problem here is that once at a time this gets bugged, swiping does not act as intended and navigation turns impossible. The solution is to change to another panel and then it usually returns to normal function.

Menu:

More or less the same as before. Solution is to exit menu and re-enter.

Galaxy navigation:

I am not able to use the holo navigation when in the galaxy, so I end navigating by mouse. The problem is that I cannot either select tabs in stars or move between tabs to filter, search or whatever... If I want to do a 2 stage jump I need to select first destination, jump, then go to map again and select second destination and jump again.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong or if I am doing anything wrong at all but in two days I've been able to move my ship with no hassle, even it seems my WMR controllers are not working 100% as intended.

Thisisrhun commented 3 years ago

Just to clarify, I have not modified the steamvr bindings, or so I think...

I don't fully understand how the steamvr bindings work or if I have to change or set something up in the unlocked edit menu of your app, apart from grabbing the desired holo buttons.

Thisisrhun commented 3 years ago

Also, after some more testing, menu navigation is sometimes with track pad swipe and sometimes with track pad clicking, and now it sometimes gets stuck and it only navigates sideways, not up or down.

I am quite lost because I am sure I am missing something but I don't know what.

Thisisrhun commented 3 years ago

In my particular quest to make this work, and after reading through tons of open and closed issues, I finally understood how to bind the controls correctly. I was not understanding that I needed to click the buttons on the actual panel of the "unlocked edit mode" of your app to assign the different axis and the hat directions to the control bindings menu section...

However, I can't manage to select anything other than "select destination" or switch tabs inside the galaxy map to for example trace a route or change the filters.

In my WMR controller I have a joystick and a trackpad, which accepts swipe and press... In the "controls" tab of your edit menu I see that the POV1 and POV2 are both assigned to the trackpad, one for clicking and the other for swiping actions. Is there any way to change the binding in steamvr to allow the joystick to replace the swipe trackpad?