Option to only enable weapon collusion for swords?

[kevina]

Room scale weapon collusion can be dangerous, if you move you arms suddenly you can accidentally hit things. Normally it's easy to fix, but could be dangerous if you hit a villager's iron golem or a zombified piglin.

I only ever really use it in a fight, and not for mining (although fun at first, it quickly becomes very tedious).

Would you be open to add an option to only use it for swords?

I had a patch for 1.16 and the change was fairly simple. For weapon collisions the options become: Off, Weapons, Survival, On. Weapons for now will just include swords.

If interested I can redo the patch, I will base it on #221.

[fayer3]

asking for clarifications, with only weapon collissions for swords you mean only hitting mobs with the arms(no blocks), or only swords can do damage?

[kevina]

only swords can do damage

[fayer3]

so no hands, tools or other stuff can hit entities?

[kevina]

Correct, and you also can't hit blocks. I admit it is a bit of a hack, but easy to understand and implement.

Here is the patch I had for 1.16: kevina/Vivecraft_116@31f0a8d

[fayer3]

would it be bad for other stuff to hit entities?

[fayer3]

hm, maybe if someone wants to pet their pet

[kevina]

would it be bad for other stuff to hit entities?

You could hit a villager by accident if you move suddenly while trying to trade (has happened to me, not so bad unless you end up killing the villager), you could hit a villagers iron golmen (bad), or a zombified piglin (really bad).

As far as blocks go, you could knock an item out from it's item frame, mess up a fragile redstone build, etc.

I admit this is less of a problem for me now that I am using the index controllers, but it was a serious problem when I used the HTC Vive controllers as they had a longer reach. It has been a while, but I believe with the HTC Vive your arm is the controller and so it sticks out a bit more than your actual arm. With the index this is less of a problem as your arm doesn't stick out past your real arm. I don't know how the quest controllers are mapped and how much of a problem this is with them.

[fayer3]

shouldn't be, the item should always be at your hand

[kevina]

All I remember is back when I played 1.16 with the HTC Vive controllers I was constantly hitting things. What I do remember for sure was the pickaxe stuck straight out (and likely other items) from the arm, rather than at an angle, which could of contributed. I would need to go back to using the HTC Vive controllers to give you more information.

[fayer3]

the hands are alligened with the vive handle yeah, as is the tool, that is intended

[kevina]

And from that picture, it should also be obvious that when you hold the controller normally, your arm does stick out a bit past your hand. The combination of the two make it very easy to accidentally hit things.

Person Holding Vive Controller

[fayer3]

that shouldn't matter much, but I get your concerns. index should be similar though

[kevina]

I think that the fact the the tool is at an angle from you in game arm make it a bit harder to accidentally hit something. I still did it a few times, but it not nearly as frequent with the index controller.

[fayer3]

is the angle differnet? I don't have indexcontrollers to check, could you take a screenshot like I made to compare?

[kevina]

Yes. I try and do that the next I am in VR. How did you take the screenshot?

[fayer3]

when you open the steamvr menu, it will show the controller on top, I then took a screenshot of steamvrs mirror window

[kevina]

[fayer3]

hm, so the hand sticks out the same.
the angle is probably different, because the grip and point vector are diffrent, whereas on the vive they are the same

[kevina]

Yeah. I am not sure what it is exactly that makes a difference as far as reach and hitting things. All I know it is seams be less of a problem for me with the index controllers.

[kevina]

If you look closely it seams the actual hand (or front part) of the arm for the HTC Vive is longer. My Vive controllers are charging but I plan to revisit this later.

[fayer3]

eh, the index finger is roughly at the second hand pixel for both