VR Expansion Plugin

[mordentral]

@Benjamin_Paine

I’m just one person, and the people who have mentioned on forum I’m sure are just a subset of your userbase, so take with some bias. After the breakout success of Boneworks showing that there is a market for more immersive, less comfort-focused VR games - I think having some sort of physical body that reacts with the world is going to be the target for a lot of developers. Many popular VR enthusiasts/curators/influencers top-ten lists feature HL:A (physical hands), Walking Dead: S&S (physical hands, mesh arms), Boneworks (full physical body), and Blade & Sorcery (full physical body.) Obviously there is still room for experimentation, and even just having the physics hands example is enough to get people started, but I can’t help but feel like the ultimate “version” of the VRCharacter (maybe not the base?) would function more or less the same as the base character. would better enable thinking of the VRCharacter as a traditional game character, and less like a floating camera and set of hands from which the base character must be a marionette.

Just my biased opinion, however, as one of those developers targeting such an experience.

What exactly does that have to do with root motion?

Also not entirely sure what not having the default mesh in currently does to prevent any of that, the default mesh is not used as a movement collider anyway in engine. Were you going to attempt to inject root motion to move the character based on collisions? Because the physical body is possible as is, currently, I have users doing it. Boneworks isn’t even a fully physical body for that matter, its still a capsule with physical arms, you can test that yourself, same with B&S for that matter, it also isn’t fully physical.

Using the physical animation component and any random skeletal mesh setup correctly will perform mostly the same (minus the nice puppeting plugin that Unity has). I can add the default mesh back and was likely going to soon anyway, its just never been high on my list as it provides nothing you can’t already do, but was more specifically asking around why root motion would be asked after, as modifying that for the offset collision and replication will be a bit of a PITA and I wanted to weigh tasks.