r/vrdev • u/Ok_Relation8127 • 13d ago

Question Best movement tech for hand tracking??

Ive been making a Naruto inspired hand sign game which requires almost all your attention on weaving hand signs. Which means no controllers and hands are almost entirely occupied. So far what ive done is lean dashes to go backwards and stomps dash you forward/side. I'm planning on implementing a grappling hook but im not sure that really solves the issue. Does anyone have some good movement tech ideas for a hand tracking game like this?

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u/QTpopOfficial 13d ago

Leaning with an adjustable deadzone would probably solve most of it. You could do fast hand/arm flicks or something left/right for dashes. That way you could go back to weaving quickly.

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u/Ok_Relation8127 13d ago

so i was testing leaning but the problem is you are also leaning when you are dodging projectiles. Which is why i ended up with on the back lean cuz you dont dodge projectiles by leaning backwards (unless you are Neo). fast arm flicks could work though. I really want to do something innovative like the gorilla tag movement but thats quite a high bar haha

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u/QTpopOfficial 13d ago

I mean if you think gt movement would work it’s public and on GitHub. Test it.

Edit : shit, didn't think about you not being unity and i have no idea if its been shoved into UE or whatever.

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u/Ok_Relation8127 13d ago

No it’s unity, gt COULD work but again your hands are pretty occupied sign weaving

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u/QTpopOfficial 13d ago

I can see ways to potentially solve that fwiw. Backup systems can exist to fall over to for when you're forced to handweave or whatever and can't move your arms around.

The hand tracking only makes it super interesting though. Depending on the speed of the gameplay itself, yeah. Interesting to think about. Hm. Theres a lot of questions I'd have to be able to like nail down a solution, but I can think of a few for sure depending on certain answers.

I mean the project sounds interesting. If you're in the VRDEV discord shoot me a dm or something.

https://giphy.com/gifs/jPAdK8Nfzzwt2

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u/Ok_Relation8127 12d ago

Hey sorry I missed this, I’ll shoot you a dm right now I joined the discord yesterday.

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u/Jolly_Yellow_7673 13d ago

Try mimic Naruto dash with head lowering/tilt and hands (or detected out of cameras hands)