VR Expansion Plugin

[PRESSURE2000]

Either way works, there is a ton in the example that you won't need but a lot of people just rip what they don't need out.

If you move it over, keep in mind that there are config file changes that also need to move for everything to work as is from the template (gameplay tags as well).

I don't know the state of your current project enough to make a suggestion, but if it is just a level, you can just import the level.

hi thank you for all your help but when I copy and paste the vr character from the template he just falls through the map.

all I did was import my level into your project.

The regular demp level the guy can jump and walk but in my level he just falls through the floor.

How can I use the demo level character in my level without any issues?

[mordentral]

hi thank you for all your help but when I copy and paste the vr character from the template he just falls through the map.

all I did was import my level into your project.

The regular demp level the guy can jump and walk but in my level he just falls through the floor.

How can I use the demo level character in my level without any issues?

By default the VRCharacter is set to only collide with the Static channel, your level must not be on the static channel. You can move it to that, or enable additional collision channels in the pawns capsule collision settings.

[PRESSURE2000]

By default the VRCharacter is set to only collide with the Static channel, your level must not be on the static channel. You can move it to that, or enable additional collision channels in the pawns capsule collision settings.

me and my soon ended up fixing the issue..it was silly..we had no floor.... we just laid the corridors we made onto the see through lines. we ended up copying the map over to the default level and notice the guy falling off after your level. at this rate me and my sons game will come out the 31st of nevuary but we sure are having a great time figuring it all out.

we noticed in your default level the pawn can pass through some objects in keyboard moving mode, like the table with all the hand held cubes, but it cant move through certain other objects, the pawn is the same way on my level also, it can pass through certain parts of the corridor and cant get through others, the pawn on our level says bad size also, is it because I didnt scale my my meshes down?

[mordentral]

me and my soon ended up fixing the issue..it was silly..we had no floor.... we just laid the corridors we made onto the see through lines. we ended up copying the map over to the default level and notice the guy falling off after your level. at this rate me and my sons game will come out the 31st of nevuary but we sure are having a great time figuring it all out.

we noticed in your default level the pawn can pass through some objects in keyboard moving mode, like the table with all the hand held cubes, but it cant move through certain other objects, the pawn is the same way on my level also, it can pass through certain parts of the corridor and cant get through others, the pawn on our level says bad size also, is it because I didnt scale my my meshes down?

It says bad size because there is no room for spawning with the default player spawn, its not really a big deal, i have a VRPlayerSpawn in 4.20.

[sphinix257]

How did you make the slider component as solid as you did. Physics constraints dont seem to be as stable as i need for some objects. The doors kinda stretch from there henges, and drawers stretch off of there track. I know you have components for some thess objects but i really need more control over some of the components im making and i need them to stay inside there constraints.

[mordentral]

How did you make the slider component as solid as you did. Physics constraints dont seem to be as stable as i need for some objects. The doors kinda stretch from there henges, and drawers stretch off of there track. I know you have components for some thess objects but i really need more control over some of the components im making and i need them to stay inside there constraints.

There are many settings on constraints to increase stiffness and correct for over movement that you can adjust, the center drawer in the template for example was left as a physics constraint and the cabinet doors are physics constraints.

As for the slider, the slider/lever/dials are logic driven, they aren't simulating and are hand coded to behave how they do. All of these manual logic interactibles use the Custom_Grip grip type to perform scripted logic.

[mordentral]

Pushed a commit to both repositories.

A note on GripScripts btw, they need significant testing prior to merging into master, I will be making an overview video about them but need people to test on their
branch if possible and provide feedback.

GripScripts mostly final form has been added to 4.20 GripScripts Dev branches in
both repositories. They need some testing and to be put through their paces prior
to merging into the master branches.


Initial knuckles porting and profile setup - (not public for awhile)


Skipping some calls to slightly speed up nav agent retrieval


Adding OnFinishedLerping events to the slider and lever
Also enabling throwing slider progress events during lerping by default

Added dial lerping, lerping speed, Finished lerping event
Also added SetDialAngle function


Corrected the HMD offset for the dynamic navigation mesh generation with
a VRRootComponent.


Correcting an oversight where a grip could not simulate on client side
if replicate movement was never on the object.

Also if a child component is supposed to simulate on drop, we need to also set it clientside
if the component is not the root component, non root components do not replicate simulation
state by default so in that case the client also calls it now.


Defaulting welding to true for plugin attachment operations, didn't realize that the
default setting is inverse between c++ and BP.

Fixing socketing by adding a one tick delay after the socket and re-applying
the relative transform. This is only done if both the parent and the child are simulating
and is only there to avoid a race condition with the physics thread where the
original grip constraint can reset the transform out of order prior to destruction.


switched sweep detection on grips to component multi instead of sweep single.
That function automatically accounts for the pivot offset / collision local pose.


Worked around a physics replication issue that
Epic introduced in 4.20, physics replication period is acting kind of badly now. They moved to
a different (more efficient) system of handling the simulating position replication that
they ported from Fortnite, however it has some little issues like not ending a targeted
physics frame position setting when replication is turned on/off / when simulated or 
unsimulated.

[mordentral]

Just uploaded a last full binary package zip for 4.19 with ported back fixes from 4.20.

Any additional back porting of fixes for 4.19 will remain on the locked source branch only so I can remove my 4.19 installation soon.

[PRESSURE2000]

This plug in a great, we havent even got into everything yet.

we are about to try to put arm and legs on the character and was wondering if there was some IK feature here? or can we use any IK tutorial to use it?

[mordentral]

This plug in a great, we havent even got into everything yet.

we are about to try to put arm and legs on the character and was wondering if there was some IK feature here? or can we use any IK tutorial to use it?

Any IK tutorial / plugin should work, you may have to adjust them for the specifics of the plugin (IE: attach to the parent relative attachment).

Specifically the one I saw you talking about with VRMarco would require that as it wasn't meant for roomscale.

[PRESSURE2000]

Any IK tutorial / plugin should work, you may have to adjust them for the specifics of the plugin (IE: attach to the parent relative attachment).

Specifically the one I saw you talking about with VRMarco would require that as it wasn't meant for roomscale.

oh ok, I am a little confused on to which blueprint needs to be edited, When I hit play, the FPS guy comes out and I can move with the WSAD but thats just for editing which blueprint is the one that we are suppose to add the code to to see health and such on the final HTC VIVE controls?

Im guessing the FPS is not the vive that will be used in game to actually play the game, if we edited adding widgets and health meter stuff would it show up on the vive guy used to play in game?

[mordentral]

oh ok, I am a little confused on to which blueprint needs to be edited, When I hit play, the FPS guy comes out and I can move with the WSAD but thats just for editing which blueprint is the one that we are suppose to add the code to to see health and such on the final HTC VIVE controls?

Im guessing the FPS is not the vive that will be used in game to actually play the game, if we edited adding widgets and health meter stuff would it show up on the vive guy used to play in game?

You would have to add it to the base character class, FPS_Pawn is just a subclass of that one for FPS testing.

[mordentral]

Posted a new informational video about the new plugin feature coming out (Grip Scripts)

[PRESSURE2000]

Posted a new informational video about the new plugin feature coming out (Grip Scripts)

so your default weapon base blueprint, is this the one we copy and use to build our own weapon?

I imported a rigged weapon and it came in as a skeleton mesh I then made it into a static mesh, and try to put it in but it doesnt work

when I change the static mesh on your blueprint the gun loses all its functions when I hit play it just floats I can grab it but it falls down and through the floor.

I thought I could just change the mesh and build on the base one?

[mordentral]

so your default weapon base blueprint, is this the one we copy and use to build our own weapon?

I imported a rigged weapon and it came in as a skeleton mesh I then made it into a static mesh, and try to put it in but it doesnt work

when I change the static mesh on your blueprint the gun loses all its functions when I hit play it just floats I can grab it but it falls down and through the floor.

I thought I could just change the mesh and build on the base one?

You can, it sounds like like you have improper collision on it or something went wrong with your conversion. You can spawn a GrippableSkeletalMeshActor and use that instead with your original skeletal mesh.