VR Expansion Plugin

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1. Yeah I got sidetracked dealing with some things with it and haven’t updated the documentation yet. Generally its just ticking on “replicate skeletal data” and choosing a replication mode. There are no real complicated steps. I’ll get around to updating the documentation soon, I only finished final testing last night and just need to clean some things up now.

2. Mine only handles the action system currently because the built in engine version does not contain skeletal input capacity yet and I didn’t want to ship a module that “requires” another party’s module to function. The Valve plugin also handles the action system and when it is installed mine turns that part of itself off in order to let it work as intended, basically it comes down to if you prefer the valve plugin or the native engine “Beta Input” style (mine is the beta input but with modifications to allow the skeletal system). Eventually when the engine gets some patches in that fixes the problem i’ll be removing that part of my module entirely.

As far as what the difference is from the valve plugin with that aside, theirs doesn’t handle mapping the hands to full body meshes, or replication, or easy gesture detection. They also are using some proxy inputs and a large quantity of input keys for each supported controller for mapping inputs which is a bit of a mess and some may prefer to not deal with until it is re-factored. If you are doing single hand meshes in singleplayer though I don’t see a reason why you couldn’t / wouldn’t just use theirs.

3. If the vr glove controller makes OpenInput drivers for them then they would work out of the box, since they use vive trackers in their promotional material I would hope that they do it correctly and actually write a vendor driver for them for SteamVR and everything “just works”.

1. Sweet. Just checking I wasn’t being blind.

2. Thanks for all the info! I don’t really understand some of what you’ve said but as I work a bit more with stuff I’ll check back and hopefully the other things will make more sense.

3. Unfortunately that is not the case. The gloves work completely separately to steamvr and the trackers are independently used to position the wrist/hand. I’m gonna submit a support ticket and ask if they have plans to do that now I know though!

My project is multiplayer and will have full body ik so from what you’ve said looks like your plugin might be very helpful. Does your gesture detection/replication work only for the skeletal data from your open input module or will it also work if skeletal data coming from SteamVRInput or from something like the manus glove? Main focus for me is actually manus and then supporting vive controllers as a fallback.