Controllers have left and right reversed in some games

gameovr

Hey, we've noticed some games have the controllers assigned to opposite hands than the norm such as After-H, Nvidia Funhouse, Everest etc. This is a major pain when customers are switching games and constantly having to switch controllers back and forth. Could we maybe ask the developers to set them all the same?

Chris

Hey Eric, this took a while but here's some more info:

For the Vive controllers SteamVR decides what is treated as left vs. right based on the relative position of the controllers compared to the headset. The controller further most to the left is assigned the left hand role, the other one then is the right one.

This assignment is kept until SteamVR is restarted or at least one controller controller goes off and switches "sides" as soon as the other is turned on (the same check is run once both controllers are turned on).

There were some really really old game engine integrations for SteamVR that decided that the first controller turned on is the left controller, though. I'm not sure if that is the case for any of the titles you mentioned (or any other release nowadays).

gameovr

Chris

Hi Chris,

I am aware that steam will assign left and right to the controllers, what I am saying is, a few particular games have the left and right hands opposite what steam assigns them as. Go ahead and start up steam and load into any game, have it assign your left and right hands correctly, then switch to After-H or Nvidia Funhouse and you will see that your hands are reversed and you will have to physically switch the controllers around to get them the right way. Once you switch out of that game to anything else, they will once again be backwards. You wouldn't notice it if you are starting up steam and then launching directly into just that game, but when customers are switching in and out of games and seeing backwards hands they are taking the wrist straps off to switch the controllers around making for a negative experience and the possibility dropped controllers because they can't see what they are doing, or our staff has to run frantically around switching everyone's hands back and forth.

I can say for those particular games, they are always 100% of the time the exact opposite of whatever steam has assigned so it is something the developers would need to fix. It almost seems like they have the model for the left hand assigned to the right controller and vice versa.