Thumbstick Movement in VR

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Hallo Everyone!
I have been trying to make thumbstick movement in VR for the preview released 5.1
I followed this tutorial and it works fine for 5.0.

But when I migrate it to 5.1, everything is not working. Any idea why? I imported all the axis mapping as well from 5.0.
In 5.1 it says that “use Enhance Input Actions and Input Mapping Contexts instead”

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Have you enabled the Enhanced Input plugin and set the input to “Enhanced Input” in project settings?

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Yes, I think it is automatically enable in the new 5.1
Sadly there is no tutorial on 5.1 it self. I thought it will be very easy to migrate the movement from 5.0 to 5.1

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It was marked as experimental feature, so it could easily change between versions.

Unfortunately I haven’t used UE5.1 a lot yet so I can’t help you very much.

Were you using enhanced input also in 5.0 or the regular input system? In case you weren’t I can suggest you some tutorials I watched about it (hoping that they still work)

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There is a default input (axis mapping) from 5.0, but then it is not there anymore in 5.1.
It is totally different workflow (I guess). I have never use the Enhance Input

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Oh that’s bad! If they have deprecated the regular input system many projects are going to break after the update!

The enhanced input system is far superior but it needs to be configured differently

If you want to give it a look:

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Yes, I also tried importing the axis mapping from the 5.0, but then it did not work. Maybe someone knows why?

Thanks a lot, I will definitely have a look for the tutorial

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I would stick with 5.0.3 until the preview hits release
it will only be another month or two
as of right now I am using VR expansion plugin to get locomotion including an alyx style thumbstick teleport
but the plugin author will not upgrade it for 5.1 until it is a full release
apparently the biggest issue being ongoing changes to chaos physics
I am using 5.0.3 with the vrep template for prototyping and lvl construction
and waiting for 5.1 to be released and the plugin updated before I try to switch
When 5.0 was released it was very crash prone for 2 more updates until 5.0.3 which is stable for my projects.

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I think there is not much of different in terms of mapping when the 5.1 is fully released. Since I don’t see any different from the Github version and preview version

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