VR Expansion Plugin

[mordentral]

Thank you. 5 works perfect for me.

<I'm sure you've already thought of this>

I was curious if there was currently a way to set the step-up time. Currently it seems to happen in 1 frame.

I have considered lerping it...but it is really awkward considering I run full collision, most of the climbing system out there don't have collision and the step up just lerps up to standing on the edge.

It's on my eventual TODO list to allow for a gradual step up, its just that I would have to lock out all input from the character during it and manually moving the capsule during it could get problematic in multiplayer, its a larger endeavor than it initially sounds like.

[CrashnShroom]

I'm very new to Unreal and game making in general so sorry if this is very simple or straight forward to do but i feel lost and could use a little help. I've been looking over the Example Project and playing with the gun setup. what I'd like to do is what i hold the gun with the Motion controllers grip, i wanna pull the trigger to fire, not pull the grip again as I've changed the tags to drop the gun when grip is released, but now can't fire. how do i go about making the gun fire when the trigger is pulled.
Again if this is really simple i'm sorry, but I've been going over this and trying many things without any luck. Thank you for all your hard work and any help you can provide.

[mordentral]

I'm very new to Unreal and game making in general so sorry if this is very simple or straight forward to do but i feel lost and could use a little help. I've been looking over the Example Project and playing with the gun setup. what I'd like to do is what i hold the gun with the Motion controllers grip, i wanna pull the trigger to fire, not pull the grip again as I've changed the tags to drop the gun when grip is released, but now can't fire. how do i go about making the gun fire when the trigger is pulled.
Again if this is really simple i'm sorry, but I've been going over this and trying many things without any luck. Thank you for all your hard work and any help you can provide.

The naming of those default tags is a little obtuse, its drop when trigger is released not on grip release. You can go in and change what happens after "GripRelease" input event to reference that tag and remove / add one for the trigger release specifically.


At some point I would like to make all grip / drop fully check those tags, currently its just drops based on them and doesn't have grip release. I'll make a note of it.

*Edit* actually I am starting in on that today

[kusokuso1]

Anyone know why I can't step on top of the white blocks, aligned vertically, in the template map? Current step-up height is pretty high, so I've no problem getting up on ledges that have nothing overhead, but I can't step up on those white blocks even with my capsule height at something really low, like 40 (more than half original).



Also, I'm looking to get some AI in the game now. I wanted to use DON's pathfinding plugin but I take it using that would mean I lose the offset handling the MoveToExtended command gives. Maybe I'd need to somehow make a new FlyTo command that calculates the offset? There's probably no easy way to make something with the same effect in BP, yeah?

[mordentral]

Anyone know why I can't step on top of the white blocks, aligned vertically, in the template map? Current step-up height is pretty high, so I've no problem getting up on ledges that have nothing overhead, but I can't step up on those white blocks even with my capsule height at something really low, like 40 (more than half original).

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Also, I'm looking to get some AI in the game now. I wanted to use DON's pathfinding plugin but I take it using that would mean I lose the offset handling the MoveToExtended command gives. Maybe I'd need to somehow make a new FlyTo command that calculates the offset? There's probably no easy way to make something with the same effect in BP, yeah?

AI shouldn't really be done with VRCharacters anyway, its possible but not recommended due to the overhead.

Also you should be able to step up to those, if the capsule height is set correctly, see the template level and how some are spaced far enough for it.

[uw19]

Ah! Alright, I was hoping it would work without packaging the whole project. I'll try that tonight.

Thanks for the help!

So...we tried packaging the template you provide without modifying it and attempted multiplayer with that, but still didn't find any servers. Does anyone know a debug I can provide to get multiplayer hosting/joining up and running?

[mordentral]

So...we tried packaging the template you provide without modifying it and attempted multiplayer with that, but still didn't find any servers. Does anyone know a debug I can provide to get multiplayer hosting/joining up and running?

Are you guys local to each other? App ID 480 (the test app id) is region locked and doesn't let people find each other outside of set regions, though you said you have found each other before with AS.



You can look in the packaged directory under Saved/Logs and see if steam fails to initialize in there, because I know for sure that the template project connects as I test multiplayer builds across steam using it.


*Edit* Also heads up to people, I have this week off of work and intend on doing a lot of work on the plugin over it, there will be a stall in update notes and incremental changes over this time due to some major revisions being done and being tested.

Today I started in on changing up the template character to be more of an actual template and less of a "How-To" example.

[uw19]

Are you guys local to each other? App ID 480 (the test app id) is region locked and doesn't let people find each other outside of set regions, though you said you have found each other before with AS.



You can look in the packaged directory under Saved/Logs and see if steam fails to initialize in there, because I know for sure that the template project connects as I test multiplayer builds across steam using it.


*Edit* Also heads up to people, I have this week off of work and intend on doing a lot of work on the plugin over it, there will be a stall in update notes and incremental changes over this time due to some major revisions being done and being tested.

Today I started in on changing up the template character to be more of an actual template and less of a "How-To" example.

We have found each other in the past, yes (Seattle-Denver). I did move a few hours closer, but perhaps I'm in a new region that doesn't qualify? If I change my region in the Steam settings, do you think that would have an impact?

Also, I don't see any logs/saved folders or files in the packaged directory. Maybe that's a sign something isn't working properly.

[mordentral]

We have found each other in the past, yes (Seattle-Denver). I did move a few hours closer, but perhaps I'm in a new region that doesn't qualify? If I change my region in the Steam settings, do you think that would have an impact?

Also, I don't see any logs/saved folders or files in the packaged directory. Maybe that's a sign something isn't working properly.

Folder/ProjectName/Saved/Logs

[kusokuso1]

AI shouldn't really be done with VRCharacters anyway, its possible but not recommended due to the overhead.

Got it! Sorry i wasn't more clear. The things I want to give AI to are pawns. I was just under the impression that in order for them to properly detect the Player, which is VRCharacter, they had to do some special calculations to get access to the player's true location.

Also you should be able to step up to those, if the capsule height is set correctly, see the template level and how some are spaced far enough for it.

I'm not exactly sure how to set up capsules correctly, but I just now double-checked and found that I had Use WalkingCollisionOverride checked and set to StaticMesh. Unchecking it and setting it to PawnWalking fixed it. Sorry, I messed up...

Thanks a lot for the help!

[mordentral]

Got it! Sorry i wasn't more clear. The things I want to give AI to are pawns. I was just under the impression that in order for them to properly detect the Player, which is VRCharacter, they had to do some special calculations to get access to the player's true location.



I'm not exactly sure how to set up capsules correctly, but I just now double-checked and found that I had Use WalkingCollisionOverride checked and set to StaticMesh. Unchecking it and setting it to PawnWalking fixed it. Sorry, I messed up...

Thanks a lot for the help!

Ah, there is a base AIController that I added to the plugin, just derive their controller from that and they should work just fine for you with the VRCharacter.

[kusokuso1]

...just derive their controller from that...

Apologies for my newbness... Do I just click on FlightAIController (under AIController) to do that?


The current open project is based on the VRExpPluginExample project.


*Edit*
I've one more, completely unrelated, question; possibly not even related to the plugin.

I got a Grippable Static mesh actor base, and from that I have a child weapon (sword). The static mesh for the weapon has collision built into it (I created both the collision, w/ a UCX prefix, and its accompanying mesh in Blender). Fsr, I can't get hit events to fire on my sword.



I verified the other static mesh (the grey table in the middle of the Example map) has Simulation generates Hit Events checked and is set to block or overlap the Weapon object type.

After a couple hours of research it appears the collision has to?/ should be the root in order for hits to work right. But if that's the case, I wouldn't be able to use the grippable static mesh because I can't change the root.

Should I post this question in Answer Hub?

[mordentral]

Apologies for my newbness... Is this what you mean by deriving their controller from the AIController in the template?

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The current open project is based on the VRExpPluginExample project.

the VRAIController is the one I made, derive your FlightAIController from it (set its parents in the class properties in editor to the VRAIController).

Then it will check the correct pawn lcoation

[haprie]

Hey Guys,

first of all: thank you for providing this plugin!
Second: I'm totally new to unreal.

So what I want to do is to open and close a door with a motion controller, just like in the demo application. I already copied the door from that project into my own. I'm also using a SimpleVRCharacter and my approach was to use the GripObject-Funktion, triggered by a MotionController Trigger Event. In the demo it was solved completely different and I don't really understand if I should implement the door interaction in the VRSimpleCharacter or if I should add a Blueprint for the MotionController like it's done in the demo.

Thank you for your help!

[uw19]

Folder/ProjectName/Saved/Logs

Gotcha, I thought I was looking for logs in the packaged folder, not about packaging the project

I've attached the logs below and it does say "Steam API Disabled", but it's said that before and worked just fine.