VR Expansion Plugin

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@;707546

…actually all you really need to do is handle the few blueprints I setup to tell it what to do.

Sorry, I’m not sure what you were referring to with “the few”. Checking out the reference viewer for the Vive_Pawn_Character BP you made, seems the only blueprints I need to muck with is the very VRCharacter one my character is based off of, and the Anim BPs for each hand, no?

@;707546

The climbing movement doesn’t track things itself, it takes a direct movement that you pass in to it and makes sure that it is replicated correctly…

Got it. So climbing movement is ultimately controlled by feeding in vectors (“direct movement”?) to the Add Custom Replicated Movement node on Tick after having enabled climbing via the Set Climbing Mode node, yeah?

Since it takes in the VR Movement Component, is it correct to assume turning Set Climbing Mode ON overrides the Engine-based movement mode (the one with walking, flying, falling)?

@;707546

…and turns on/off at times that would prevent hitching. You can pass in things like sliding down a ladder / zip line to it as well.

I’m confused about the “turns on/off at times that would prevent hitching.” part. Maybe something to do with momentum preservation? The ladder and zip line part is awesome. Is there already an example of in the template? I didn’t notice one in the 4.15.1 version. I’m curious to see how you’d do it.

@;707546

Just check for overlap / trace when going for a climbing grip and make sure the hit object is static, then you can record the grip position relative to that object, and each tick afterwards pass in the inverse of the difference from that first spot into the climbing movement modes direct movement which should move the hand back into the original position again.

Thanks a lot for explaining exactly how it works. You make it sound easy. Btw, should I avoid climbing on huge landscapes?