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#3245

Hi Sven,

I also was confused by this when I started using the plugin. The plugin is super good and has a ton of features but the documentation is lacking. Searching in this thread is the best thing I’ve found to do if you are stuck.

Assuming you are asking about the example map, yep it works over the internet. The server browser thing uses the Online Subsystem Steam and sessions to operate. I believe you need to be logged into steam and friends with whomever you are trying to play with then it should function as you expect, ie one person hosts then the other tries to find.

If that doesn’t work then you can try a packaged build, I vaguely remember reading something in this thread about the online subsystem not working in editor. I could be wrong about this. What I do know is that 100% you can connect over the internet with packaged build as I was doing it last week. I can’t remember whether it worked in editor however.

If you still can’t get it to work you’ll have to wait for the king himself :wink:

#3246

I answered your direct visitor message about this already if you want to go read the response.

Technically the sessions stuff is totally separate from the VR Plugin, which would be why there is no mention of it in the plugin documentation. I just package my Advanced Sessions plugin in with the template to handle the steam sessions testing in the example project.

#3247

Ah yep. I knew the sessions stuff was handled by your other plugin, forgot that example project is really separate from plugin though.

#3248

Pushed a fix for throwing with SetAndGripAt center of mass setting with physics grips (the default one)

Patch Notes Here: 4.22 Patch Notes – VR Expansion Plugin

#3249

Hey man!
Would you know how to do an Echo Arena grip style on a disc with your grip scripts?

#3250

Hey man!
Would you know if there was a way to do an Echo Arena grip style on a disc with your grip scripts?

#3251

Looked through the docs, the install, etc. Added in a VRPlayer (tried Base, Character, Simple) and nothing happens. No controls, not tracked controllers, no movement, no nothing. 4.22, using the 4.22 binaries, compiled in VS just fine, auto-posessing player 0, getting nothing.

#3252

With grip scripts? No? That is an animation procedure. You could make a grip script that traces the held object and passes the information out to an animation instance and that would work, but you won’t be directly posing bones in a grip script using a standard skeletal mesh.

It also wouldn’t be best in a grip script in the first place, you can bind to OnGrippedObject on the controller itself and handle logic based on the position of the hand relative to the object if you want a fully dynamic grip. If you HAD to have it in a grip script I suppose that you could make an “animation Pose” script, get the list of scripts OnGrip on the controller side and find the first animation Pose one, then retrieve the animation or data from it.

You could also run default poses and blend between them and handle it with an interface or any other method.

#3253

Is it possible to broadcast a video stream from CameraRecorder blueprint to twitch ?

#3254

like record your screen? yes?

#3255

no, in VR game my character will have a camera in his arm, from this camera I want to broadcast video to twitch when I want to broadcast, and stop broadcasting accordingly.

#3256

Then you would have to hook up with an OBS plugin or a twitch streaming plugin or hotkeys on OBS to manage it…

Not entirely sure what you want from me here, I don’t think you understand what you are requesting.

#3257

Sorry, probably I don’t undrerstand what I am requesting. But I need what I sad - player in VR must be able to use camera in his hand to broadcast a virtual world to twitch. If you can suggest me the way how to do it, it will be very helpful. If your previos post is a solution, please, give me some links to read.

#3258

By the Echo Arena grip style I just mean sorta how the disc grips and snaps the location where you grab it and not on a set point yet still keeps its rotation correct, like what is shown in the attached clip. https://youtu.be/jPEUS5ropDA

#3259

Yes, in the GetClosestSocketInRange function pass out a transform that is relative to the hand current transform to the object, but is centered on the object.

#3260

Where might I find “GetClosestSocketInRange”?

#3261

In the grippable object, it is a GripInterface function that you can override and pass out anything from. It lets you override the default behavior of finding the closest correct prefix socket and instead pass out any transform that you want.

#3262

Would you be talking of “Closest Grip Slot in Range” or am I still looking in the wrong place?

#3263

Yeah that one, you can return “true” for found one, and any transform that you like (in world space). You can override it per object to return different results (like component locations instead of sockets, ect).

In this case it would be a projected location to your object based on the hand position relative to it.

You could also do all of this in the character itself, but it sounds like it is a one off thing?

#3264

First of all, amazing, amazing work you’re doing. Like you’ve mentioned in your video’s I am having a tougher time getting started than I did with the SteamVR plugin for Unity but I know it will be worth it once I get through this. This is being touched on right now so I wanted to chime in to also mention that I would love to implement something similar to the skeleton poser in the steamVR plugin on the Unity side as I find it a major immersion booster and a lot of fun to do.

So this could be a combination of looking at the current transform of the object you’re trying to grab and passing that on to the hand socket to make it transition more smoothly? In the Echo Arena video it seems like its snapping to the hand but maintaining its own rotation on the horizontal axis but taking over some rotation from the hand. And then using an animated pose to match the transform of the object? I’m not exactly sure how I’ll work make those two play nice together but I’m just trying to understand the basic theory behind implementing this.

I’ll be donating to the patreon as soon as I have a little spare cash as I really think its amazing what you’ve done over these last few years.