attach camera to a animated mesh

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Hi,
I am trying to make a simple roller coaster ride. I animated a cube with one joint in maya and exported the animation to unreal.
Then I parented a socket to the root bone and used this blueprint to attach the camera to the socket.

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This works fine in normal mode, but when in VR mode when I rotate my head, I will fly all around the scene.
It seems like it keeps the pivot of the head model at world origin and when I rotate my head, the camera moves around a pivot that is really far away from where the camera is.
Did anybody experienced the same problem or does somebody knows a solution for this?
thanks.

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Slightly “hacky” but for one of my projects, I animated a spotlight in matinee, and attached the player to the spotlight. (Something similar may work with attaching the player to a static mesh(coaster cart) + applying an offset).

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How did you attached the player to the spotlight?

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Used that same “attach to” node (or one of the nodes with “attach” in the title… “attach actor to actor?”)