Print String in VR easy

[Rumbleball]

@Rumbleball;650150

There is a better way to do it, but keeps it that simple:

Setup a Widget that is a simple vertical Box with background. Make another widget that represents a textline/block. In the first widget make a function AddText. This function has a String as input and creates a widget of the textline class. Then sets the text of the created widget and adds the new create textline to the vertical box of its own (VerticalBox->Add Child)

Make an actor, add WidgetComponent, set the widget class to the new component, attach it to the controller.

Write a FunctionLibrary function that gets the widget with the vertical box (GetAllWidgetOfClass) and calls the AddText function of the widget.

Now, from where ever you need debug text, call the library function.

To go more advanced, add a time (float) to the AddText function. That time is then passed on to the textline widget. The textline subtracts the deltaTime from tick each tick and calls RemoveFromParent when time <= 0.

Having a floating widget with the text in front of you is much more useable as the normal PrintString.

This is just the idea, you can change and adjust what ever you need, e.g. add color to the textline or set the background to the textline instead of the vertical box. So there is nothing visible when there is no text.

Cheers

I made this to a pure C++ plugin myself and improved on it. Link: [Tool] DebugWidget - 3D Widget to help debugging (VR) - XR Development - Epic Developer Community Forums