VR Expansion Plugin

[mordentral]

@waysketch;721048

Hello,

Got the plug-in working beautify (Huge thanks for putting in so much work.) Two questions.

1: I downloaded the level you created and played around in it for a bit; Awesome. Is there a download so that I can look at your blueprints? I’m having a little trouble with some of the features you demonstrate.

2: When my VRCharacter (Simple) attempts to look outside a window or over a table my collision capsule pushes me backward. Is there a way to make it so that my VRCharacter can lean over objects without being able to pass them?

The template link has all of the blueprints in it for the demo download (demo is just a packaged template).

For the simple character, it follows all of the normal collision rules for a pawn, so you can simply turn off collision on the pawn channel for something.

I don’t implement faked “leans” with overlap distances because I don’t like the concept generally (tends to result in players just walking that much farther instead of “leaning”), but you are free to have a collision sphere on the HMD and check for the distances yourself and warp the player back if they penetrate too far if you wish.

The VRCharacter (non simple) also has the added option of a neck offset (can get closer to objects) and freewalk when not using locomotion.

There is also of course vive tracker support as well but being developer only at the moment and confirmed dead on gen2 for currently sold ones I wouldn’t bet too much on them yet.

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(I tried “thread search” but didn’t find anything that matched).

tl;dr RR-like equippable/holstered items (weapons, and locomotion items) and climbing?

Is it correct to assume one of the best ways to do is: Just create a Base Actor (similar to the Gunbase in the template, where it’s got a VRGripInterface and Gameplay Tag Asset Interface) and then create children of that (with custom logic) for each holstered item? All of the equip-able items are skeletal meshes.

I started with a blank VR Character, and copied over the grip/drop and climbing logic over from the template pawn. Equip/Unequip is currently done via thumbpad press. And all the equip-able item logic is handled in the VRchar BP (all the meshes and stuff for those items is in the player). It’s getting really messy. Climbing works, but it works even when things are equipped, because the items aren’t using anything from the VRExpPlugin.

Thanks and sorry for the stupid question.

That would be correct, you can manually grip any object by calling the function, but if you are working off of the template then the cleanest method would be making a weapon base class from a grippable mesh. is because the template character has a ton of checks and balances that it runs with grippable / interfaced objects. You could also just implement the interface in any object even if it isn’t one of the grippable base classes but it would involve more effort generally due to having to overload the interface functions.

If you are just using attachment for your object holding instead of the plugin grips you are free to have a boolean for each hand “Is holding” or something of the sort and just end the climbing check early if true.

Regardless for the holstering itself, you shouldn’t have to do custom logic on each object, Base class “Weapon” with child “Weapon.HolsterHeld” and implement the holstering logic there, then you can freely make further children like “Weapon.HolsterHeld.Pistol” that just has different mesh and properties but doesn’t have to re-do all of the holstering and base weapon logic.