How to change print string screen position?

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Is there a way to adjust the screen position of the print string output ?

some setting or umg widget to adjust?

I want to put it more to the middle of the screen so it shows up in VR …

2

You could use an Append String and put space in front of what you want to print to offset it.

3

Looks like the only solution really…just to move the text over with spaces or a few dashes…

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my own solution for VR projects is to set up render text components attached to the camera (easy with the 4.11 camera refactor ) and output any info to that instead.

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First Google hit so I’m going to put my solution here. I’m also a VR dev and this has driven me nuts for years.

You will need to edit UnrealEngine.cpp, starting inside the function
float UEngine::DrawOnscreenDebugMessages()
at line 11887 in version 5.3 (basically at the top)

float VRFontScale = 1.0f;
#if WITH_EDITORONLY_DATA
	if (const UEditorEngine* EditorEngine = Cast<UEditorEngine>(GEngine))
	{
		const FString Section = TEXT("VRPrintDebug");
		if (EditorEngine->IsVRPreviewActive() && GConfig->DoesSectionExist(*Section, GEngineIni))
		{
			FString Key = TEXT("VRPrintDebugTextScale");
			GConfig->GetFloat(*Section, *Key, VRFontScale, GEngineIni);

			Key = TEXT("VRPrintDebugXPos");
			GConfig->GetFloat(*Section, *Key, MessageX, GEngineIni);
			
			Key = TEXT("VRPrintDebugYPos");
			GConfig->GetFloat(*Section, *Key, MessageY, GEngineIni);
		}
	}
#endif // WITH_EDITORONLY_DATA

Then in the two places (PriorityScreenMessages and ScreenMessages) it sets the MessageTextItemScale, change it to:

MessageTextItem.Scale = Message.TextScale * VRFontScale;

This will now read values from your DefaultEngine.ini file in a new section that looks like so:

[VRPrintDebug]
VRPrintDebugTextScale=2.0
VRPrintDebugXPos=250.0
VRPrintDebugYPos=100.0

And add this include at the top

#if WITH_EDITORONLY_DATA
#include "Editor/EditorEngine.h"
#endif

hope this helps y’all!