VR Expansion Plugin

[mordentral]

@Swinny

I am using root motion in the player character - I am using ikinema in concert with your plugin to have true tracked presence in the world, the root motion allows for realistic movement when using thumbsticks - on that note however - how do you move the characters capsule when using VRcharacter by head movement? my current setup (not using the template - i know that works though) leaves the capsule. is there a simple bool im missing?0

In a perfect scenario i would have the player be able to move the character by VR movement in the playspace alone, with the skeletal mesh updating walk animations (not root motion) to display those small movements to the player - but when using the thumbsticks to move around, have the root motion animations handle everything.

Could you add a version of the VR character with the Skeletal Mesh component intact? That way current functionality would not be hindered but for those of us that want it, can use it?

Thanks for the reply

I could add the skeletal mesh back in but that wouldn’t fully fix root motion, it would need several things added back in that were removed as minor performance savings.

I also don’t understand how thumbsticks and root motion would work in concert like that…You still need head motion influence during walking which would break your “root motion” setup. And its possible to use a non linear movement without root motion as well.

The SimpleVRCharacter would be closer to what you want, it does not remove the root motion features, but it does move the entire character with the HMD motion.

Or you could run a character and a proxy actor for the HMD containing and sync the two.

Edit That being said, I have been considering sitting the skeletal mesh back in and re-parenting it.