OSC Keyboard

OSC Keyboard is a program for Windows that utilizes VRC's avatar OSC capabilities and KillFrenzy's VRC Avatar Keyboard to allow users to type in VRChat.

Requirements

• Windows is required for foreground window detection
• Your avatar must have KillFrenzy's VRC Avatar Keyboard on it.
  • This package is not currently working by itself, however, it does work with OSC
  • Follow the provided setup, but you can skip any setup relating to gestures, colliders, and actions menu setup as all input will be handled using parameters and OSC
  • Things you can skip adding or delete include:
    • Trigger Left, Trigger Right, Keyboard Collider Left, Keyboard Collider Right layers in the provided animator controllers VRCAC_KeyboardController_Action and VRCAC_KeyboardController_FX
    • VRCEM_KeyboardMenu and VRCEM_KeyboardSubMenu
• pip install -r requirements.txt and run the python program
• Alternatively download the executable in releases

How To Use

• Edit config such as key delay and mappings in config.json

• Enable OSC in the VRChat Action Menu under Options -> OSC

• Press = to toggle the keyboard on and off

• While the keyboard is enabled:

  • Type to write - inputs are buffered to help with sync
  • Supported input: A-Z, 0-9, spacebar, backspace, enter
  • Press ENTER to clear out the current displayed text
  • Press ] to mirror text to either face you or others
  • Press - to toggle typing mode to allow movement and other actions while keeping text and keyboard visible

• OSC Keyboard is only active when you are focused on the VRChat window, unless the require_focus config option is false

• The visual keyboard is non-functional and only present as part of the keyboard prefab

• Only OSC events are sent to VRChat when the keyboard and typing mode are enabled

• All other keyboard inputs to the game (such as walking or opening menus) are disabled to allow ease of typing

• If you have sync issues with other players, you can adjust the key_delay config option

Config Parameters

These parameters can be adjusted inside config.json, which must be in the same directory as the program. This can also potentially allow usage of this program with other custom avatar keyboards.

• ip: OSC IP
• port: OSC Port
• require_focus: Require focusing on the window for inputs
• window: Target window to restrict inputs in
• key_delay: Delay between key presses
• keyboard_key: Key to toggle keyboard
• typing_mode_key: Key to toggle typing mode
• mirror_key: Key to toggle text mirror
• enter_key: Key to clear text
• key_mapping: Mapping of key to parameter value
• osc_prefix: OSC path prefix
• keyboard_param: OSC keyboard parameter name
• key_params: OSC key parameter names