VR Expansion Plugin

[mordentral]

Pushed a new commit to the plugin, 4.16 preview is now out, so besides some minor refactoring of the (unfinished) TrackedDeviceParent stuff I intend to get it ported over to that tomorrow.

Finished Replication overhaul for motion controllers / camera. Now has two selectable levels of
quantization at the cost a 1 bit due to replicating which option selected.

Default quant level is rounded to 2 Decimals.

Added VRAIController, can be the base of an AI controller for a pawn. Overrides the Line of Sight To and GetActorFocalPoint functions so that
if it is acting on a VRBaseCharacter it will use the HMD offset location instead of root.

@alltrueist;699485

An option to toggle the quantization level would be great to have. Thanks for pointing me to the replication speed setting and smoothing. I hadn’t seen those. I switched to 50 hz plus smoothing and that was enough to fix the network hitching I was seeing client side with my testing setup of just two players with 3 trackers each. Smoothing wasn’t noticeable. The extreme mode sounds interesting. Curious what you would plan on using there?

I ended up only setting two levels for selection, I tried the extreme mode and it managed to save slightly more, but barely, and at the cost of a second additional bit on the other two levels. Quantization already scales how many bits are replicated based on the size of the number being replicated so at the relatively low numeric values that you will see in relative positions its difficult to get much more of a savings.

@LeeGab;699486

Hi there!
I’m trying to make a rifle that i can hold with two hands. But sadly there are 2 problems. (and I’m using the example template.) Can you help me out?

First problem is when I want to let go of the rifle’s forend (‘VRGripS1’) by releasing the grip button, I still have to toggle the grip button by pressing again. (real problem is ‘VRGripP1’ - which is the rifle’s grip - I managed to make it possible to drop it by just releasing the grip button. So where in the Vive_PawnCharacter blueprint should I look at?)

Second problem is when I let go of the forend (‘VRGripS1’), my character drops the whole rifle when I want to still grab it by the forend.

I’m still struggling to figure out how to make reloading mechanism but I’ll try to work on that myself as much I can.
I’d be so appreciated if you could help me!

When the primary hand drops the weapon you want to to check if there is a secondary grip on it, if so, call a grip on that hand at its current location, then when the primary goes back into position you can flip it back again. Secondary grips are not full grips, they are just components that are tracked, when the primary grip is ended it also kills the secondary portion of it. Primary grips contain the information for the secondary within them.

allows for a pretty flexible system but takes some planning depending on how you want to setup your interactions.

From the sounds of it, you are actually approaching things backwards from how I set it up in the template though, you are considering the front grip the primary and the back grip the secondary, if you just renamed the sockets it would solve that for you.