[CLOSED] Add "walk" user movement

[ngokevin]

Issue by jcarpenter
Saturday Aug 22, 2015 at 01:16 GMT
Originally opened as https://github.com/aframevr/aframe-core/issues/6

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User can:

• Walk fwd / backward
• Run fwd / backward
• Strafe left, strafe right
• Jump

Supported input devices:

• Keyboard support
• Gamepad support lower priority

Supported customizable attributes (passed as arguments via element attribute?)

• Run speed
• Walk speed
• Jump strength
• eg <vr-playerWalk runSpeed="20" walkSpeed="10" jumpStrength="1"></vr-playerWalk>

Need to decide how we want to implement this. For example:

• Import JS
• Import JS and create child node within scene

TODO: need to investigate effective player walking controls for virtual reality. Animated pseudo head-bobbing is a big no-no, for example.

[ngokevin]

Comment by jcarpenter
Saturday Aug 29, 2015 at 01:21 GMT

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Initial implementation is in place and working well. @caseyyee is looking at optimizing the VR mode version of the controls to better fit the ergonomics of VR.

[ngokevin]

Comment by dmarcos
Thursday Sep 03, 2015 at 18:01 GMT

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Can we close this?

[ngokevin]

Comment by caseyyee
Thursday Sep 03, 2015 at 18:19 GMT

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Not yet @dmarcos,
So far we only have:

• walk fwd/back
• strafe left/right

There is still a bunch of these requirements that still need to be finished yet.

[ngokevin]

Comment by caseyyee
Tuesday Nov 10, 2015 at 19:42 GMT

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Part of ngokevin/aframe-core#365 if we decide to merge

[ngokevin]

Comment by sirkitree
Thursday Dec 17, 2015 at 19:17 GMT

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#365 was closed in favor of #379 which has been merged.

I don't see any extra functionality though, just how it's defined as an attribute (but I'm just starting to understand the code) so it would seem we still only have walk and strafe.

[ngokevin]

Comment by caseyyee
Thursday Dec 17, 2015 at 19:25 GMT

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We can close this for now and file the other inputs as separate issues.
Jump will also require some thought since this could be part of a physics implementation. Also another issue.