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Heavy Diesel Softworks7 years ago

Question: What do you have the skeletal mesh parented to? 

There are a few ways to add a body to the player character that will work depending on what you are going for.  

1. Go into the dummy mover blueprint and set your skeletal mesh to the one that is part of that heirarchy. The Dummy Mover is just a regular character BP like the ones found in the Epic's Third Person and First Person templates. 

2. Parent it to root of BP_VRCharacter and set its location and rotation in Event Tick of BP_VRCharacter. 

3. Parent to the same capsule that the inventory objects are parented to in BP_VRCharacter. 

I would not parent to the HMD at all. 

I should add that I have not tested this yet, I was planning on adding an optional player body as a feature in 1.1 or 1.2. It may require some more scripting to get it to function correctly.

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Pharmadude7 years ago

Thanks so much for your help. I finally got it working, and it's exactly what I was looking for :D  What I did was go into the Dummy Mover BP and change the collision setting on the capsule to either "Physics Only (No Query Collision)" or "No Collision" to allow the legs of the mesh to contact the floor. These settings still allow the testing range demo map to function normally and allows my character to interact with the guns, objects, etc. Options 2 is the only way I know how to build a character so far.  I can't say enough how awesome this pack is! I really really really appreciate you making it, and I'll buy it again once it hits the marketplace in support. I think a huge feature of this pack is that it's extended from Epic's VR Template, which makes it easier to assimilate your project into other projects. This is probably the best purchase I've made for Unreal so far, and it's made my game a reality. Thanks again, and I'd be happy to recommend your product to others or write a positive review. Take care and keep up the awesome work!

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Heavy Diesel Softworks7 years ago

I am so glad I was able to help, and thank you so much for your kind words! Feel free to check us out at our UE4 forum page when you get the chance. Its the most active right now https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?133543-Weapon-Master-VR-(Upcoming-complete-VR-Weapon-System)

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