Unable to disable the VR laser pointer and controller models

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#1

(posting for a friend)

I’m trying to create a VR game, and so far everything has been going smoothly. However, no matter what I try, I am unable to disable the VR laser pointer and controller models.

Here is the part that I’m having issues with (I omitted the variable declarations and whatnot as those aren’t relevant):

if VRService.VREnabled then
    task.wait(.2)
    StarterGUI:SetCore("VRLaserPointerMode", 0)
    StarterGUI:SetCore("VREnableControllerModels", false)
    
    VRService:RecenterUserHeadCFrame()
    Camera.HeadScale = HeadScale
    
    VRService.UserCFrameChanged:Connect(function()
        
        local RightHandCFrame = VRService:GetUserCFrame(Enum.UserCFrame.RightHand)
        local LeftHandCFrame = VRService:GetUserCFrame(Enum.UserCFrame.LeftHand)
        local HeadCFrame = VRService:GetUserCFrame(Enum.UserCFrame.Head)
        
        local RightHandCorrectedCFrame = CFrame.new(Camera.CFrame.Position) * CFrame.new((RightHandCFrame.p-HeadCFrame.Position)*HeadScale) * CFrame.fromEulerAnglesXYZ(RightHandCFrame:ToEulerAnglesXYZ())
        local LeftHandCorrectedCFrame = CFrame.new(Camera.CFrame.Position) * CFrame.new((LeftHandCFrame.p-HeadCFrame.Position)*HeadScale) * CFrame.fromEulerAnglesXYZ(LeftHandCFrame:ToEulerAnglesXYZ())
        local HeadCorrectedCFrame = Camera.CFrame
        
        RightHand.CFrame = RightHandCorrectedCFrame
        LeftHand.CFrame = LeftHandCorrectedCFrame
        Head.CFrame = HeadCorrectedCFrame
        
        ContextActionService:BindAction(ACTION_GRAB_R, handleAction, true, Enum.KeyCode.ButtonR1)
        ContextActionService:BindAction(ACTION_GRAB_L, handleAction, true, Enum.KeyCode.ButtonL1)
        
    end)
    
    RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
        Camera.HeadLocked = false
        Camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
        
        local HeadCFrame = VRService:GetUserCFrame(Enum.UserCFrame.Head)
        
        Camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(0, 5, 0) * CFrame.new(HeadCFrame.Position) * CFrame.Angles(HeadCFrame:ToEulerAnglesXYZ())
    end)
end

As you can see, at the top of my script, I attempt to do so with

    task.wait(.2)
    StarterGUI:SetCore("VRLaserPointerMode", 0)
    StarterGUI:SetCore("VREnableControllerModels", false)

The task.wait(.2) was an attempt at waiting until i was able to set the gui core, but no matter how long i paused it for nothing worked.

I have also tried Player.CharacterAdded:Wait() as suggested by others, but this merely prevented my character from loading.

Any help?

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#2

In Nexus VR Character Model, one of its main scripts tries to disable the VR controller models when it’s initializing other parts of the system. It wraps the SetCore call in a pcall and tries up to 600 times (apparently) to hide them.

I noticed the controllers today, so I wrapped its code in a while loop and set it to try hiding the controllers every 30 seconds here.

task.spawn(function()
		while true do
			for i = 1, 600 do
				local Worked = pcall(function()
					StarterGui:SetCore("VREnableControllerModels", false)
					DefaultCursorService:SetCursorState("Detect")
				end)
				if Worked then break end
				task.wait(0.1)
			end
			
			task.wait(30)
		end
	end)

This iffy solution worked for me; Even if the controllers reappear (by pressing the Quest/Oculus button then returning to the game), they’re hidden within 30 seconds. I’m not sure how resource-intensive this would be if it ran every second, though.

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#3

This is because of a long-standing technical limitation where the CoreScripts may not have registered their SetCore before your code tries to use it. Since my code can start as soon as a player loads, either I’ve found this was needed or I was playing it safe. Don’t remember which; the decision was made in 2018.

Edit: It also protects from the SetCore option being removed, which can and has happened.