VR Expansion Plugin

[mordentral]

So I checked what I could find.. The "Event On Child Grip Release" in the DoorBP is called immediately after everything connected to "Event On Child Grip" has finished. However, on the PawnCharacter side, no InputAction(Release) is called - so it seems that the Grip Release is spontaneous (or maybe caused by something else, like the controller location being temporarily updated?).

Any clues what to do next?

Change the break distance to be really large on the door and see if it still does it.

It sounds like it is auto dropping the object, you didn't change world to meters scaling or pawn scaling or the door scaling did you?


Something has to be off about your setup, because it does it for no-one else. If it is a distance issue I can solve it, but I need to know what is causing it.

*Edit* NVM I found a re-production, i'll look into fixing it, its the Justteleport flag not getting cleared if your hands are empty, manip grips by default drop on teleport.

I guess not many of us use teleportation or if we do, we don't use manip grips right after, i'll have the fix up after my 4.20 at home finishes compiling shaders and will port it back to 4.19


*Re-edit* Fix is live on 4.19 and 4.20, thanks for reporting, and thanks for mentioning teleporting, it brought me to the fix

[sphinix257]

Nice progress

You went all out on the fracture generation on that cube

Thankyou. This is a little over a month of weekends. There's alot of features that weren't active in the demo. The code base conforms to just about any kind of gun real or scifi, but is heavily work in progress. I still have much to add to this project.
And yes. The cube is alot of fun but it has alot off issues and causes alot of lag.

Also now that 4.20 is live i plan to port over and set roots in it. Are there any magor changes or game breakers i need to look out for. Im still deaply imbeaded in the 4.19 template character. something i need to work away from still.

[mordentral]

Thankyou. This is a little over a month of weekends. There's alot of features that weren't active in the demo. The code base conforms to just about any kind of gun real or scifi, but is heavily work in progress. I still have much to add to this project.
And yes. The cube is alot of fun but it has alot off issues and causes alot of lag.

Also now that 4.20 is live i plan to port over and set roots in it. Are there any magor changes or game breakers i need to look out for. Im still deaply imbeaded in the 4.19 template character. something i need to work away from still.

4.20.0 is in a far better state that 4.19.0 was IMO. Usually I say to wait till .1 or so but its been stable for me since preview 3.

[sphinix257]

how should i go about updating my project with the plugin. ive never been through the process.

[mordentral]

how should i go about updating my project with the plugin. ive never been through the process.

Delete entire plugin folder and replace it with the new one, then switch project to 4.20 by right clicking on the .uproject and compile.

[sphinix257]

unreal failed to compile and told me to rebuild manualy. and i get this error when i try to rebuild.

[mordentral]

unreal failed to compile and told me to rebuild manualy. and i get this error when i try to rebuild.

You need to upgrade to visual studio 2017 in 4.20, they removed 2015 support.

[sphinix257]

i am using 2017 and getting the same problem. im really not sure whats wrong.

[Warner V]

Change the break distance to be really large on the door and see if it still does it.

It sounds like it is auto dropping the object, you didn't change world to meters scaling or pawn scaling or the door scaling did you?


Something has to be off about your setup, because it does it for no-one else. If it is a distance issue I can solve it, but I need to know what is causing it.

*Edit* NVM I found a re-production, i'll look into fixing it, its the Justteleport flag not getting cleared if your hands are empty, manip grips by default drop on teleport.

I guess not many of us use teleportation or if we do, we don't use manip grips right after, i'll have the fix up after my 4.20 at home finishes compiling shaders and will port it back to 4.19


*Re-edit* Fix is live on 4.19 and 4.20, thanks for reporting, and thanks for mentioning teleporting, it brought me to the fix

YES! That made my day. Thanks so much for your help!

Note: I upgraded to 4.20 now and also had issues compiling as mentioned above (access issues with the build.bat file). My solution was to simply take the VrExpPluginExample, run that one, then copy the contents of the Plugin folder to my project. Not a very clean solution, but it worked for me (so far ).

[Luckymator]

Hey,
is there the possibility to define a custom gripping region? I dont want my pawn to be able to grip anywhere where the mash has a collision, but only at one end.
How could I do that?

Thanks!

[sphinix257]

Hey,
is there the possibility to define a custom gripping region? I dont want my pawn to be able to grip anywhere where the mash has a collision, but only at one end.
How could I do that?

Thanks!

Socket grip. Add a VRGripP1 named socket to the mesh where you want the attachment point and VRGripS1 for a secondary for 2 handed grips.

In my project i found that if i dont do that it its will just default to the base style of griping

[Luckymator]

Socket grip. Add a VRGripP1 named socket to the mesh where you want the attachment point and VRGripS1 for a secondary for 2 handed grips.

In my project i found that if i dont do that it its will just default to the base style of griping

Thanks for your answer.
I added the sockets, but how do I tell my grip to use them? "Requests Socketing" did not do the trick. And can i define the overlap radius of the socket?

EDIT:
I just checked what socketing does on the example map with the gun. Thats not quite what I want. When you pick up the gun, the handle is socketed to the hand, ok.
But what I want is, that you cant event pick up an object at one side. I have a needle, which is supposed to only be gripped at the "knob"

[mordentral]

Thanks for your answer.
I added the sockets, but how do I tell my grip to use them? "Requests Socketing" did not do the trick. And can i define the overlap radius of the socket?

EDIT:
I just checked what socketing does on the example map with the gun. Thats not quite what I want. When you pick up the gun, the handle is socketed to the hand, ok.
But what I want is, that you cant event pick up an object at one side. I have a needle, which is supposed to only be gripped at the "knob"

Either use the socket and set the socket distance really large (covers the entire object), or override the GetClosestSocketInRange function and return true always and the offset that you want to grip at (can just be the socket location).

The gun is specifically made for being able to be free gripped or socketed, you can do either one, or both.

[mordentral]

i am using 2017 and getting the same problem. im really not sure whats wrong.

Then you aren't using the correct plugin version, I removed those strings from the build.cs because 4.20 was complaining about them.

[sphinix257]

Thanks for your answer.
I added the sockets, but how do I tell my grip to use them? "Requests Socketing" did not do the trick. And can i define the overlap radius of the socket?

EDIT:
I just checked what socketing does on the example map with the gun. Thats not quite what I want. When you pick up the gun, the handle is socketed to the hand, ok.
But what I want is, that you cant event pick up an object at one side. I have a needle, which is supposed to only be gripped at the "knob"

sorry it dawned on me after i was away that you may not be using the example template