VR Expansion Plugin

[AtmaStudios]

Yeah…but the sockets aren’t just for with visible hands though, even without visible hands you are going to need a way to define where the held object is in relation to your controller or it will feel weird if you aren’t free picking it up…

IE: if you snap a baseball bat with a zero point at its center to your hand then you will end up holding it halfway up it and it won’t feel right.

Sockets are just the easy way of doing that can be done with no guess work and in the editor. Otherwise you will have to add offsets, modify the transform of the gripped object, or model it / set the zero point to where you want to grip it at, which also makes it harder for multiple grip snap locations.

Basically unless what you are doing is literally just inflexible gripping of base objects, you will regret direct attachment without alterations down the line somewhere.

You also have to keep in mind that the VR grip sockets use prefix’s for their names to define what ones are grippable, you can check out the gun model to see what I mean, otherwise there wouldn’t be a way of knowing what the socket is for.

Okay, I have been looking at the gun and the sockets and such. Is there a way to make much simpler? I really am thinking nothing more than a picked up object orients itself into your hand a specific way. Or that it removes the VR hand and becomes your hand in the right position. I can see how to add sockets to Actors, but I cannot see where to set that socket to the VR Hand controller. Any chance you could share a small blueprint example of a very basic setup?

Thank you again.