Head Mounted VR: Update - 1.5

New

• Player Avatar Option

• Player Avatar Animation Instance

• Enhanced Input

• New Finger Collision

• SteamVR and Unreal Hand Skeleton support

• Chaos Player Collision issues fixed

• Weapons Events Added: "Do On Empty shoot", "Do On Mag In", "Do On Mag Release"

• Button Events Added: "Do On Pressed"

• Loading Handler: Load Streaming Level fixed

• New Documentation Website

Player Avatar Option

Avatar option was added to the VR Player class.

VR Player Avatar Option

VR Player: Avatar

AvatarMode types:

• HandsOnly

• FullBody

DefaultPlayerHeight - The default character height.

AvatarAnimationInstanceClass - Animation instance class which is being used by VR Player class.

VR Player Avatar Settings

Example avatar is located at "Demo/Blueprints/Player/VR/BP_Player_Quinn.uasset".

Look at the UVR_AvatarAnimationInstance class for an animation blueprint setup and more information how it works.

Enhanced Input

Enhanced Input was added to the plugin and does not require additional setup. However settings can be adjusted.

VR Player Enhanced Input Settings

New Finger Collision

New finger collision method was added. It replaces old blend physics method(This method worked in UE 4.27 but in UE 5 due to chaos physics engine has issues). See VR Player class for more info.

SteamVR and Unreal Hand Skeleton support

VR Hand Class has now support for both SteamVR and Unreal Engine Skeleton. See VR Hand class for more setup info.Example Blueprint is locaed at "Demo/Blueprints/Player/VR/Hands/BP_Hand_Quinn.uasset".

Weapons Events

New events were added to VR Weapon class.

VR Weapons Events

Button Events

New event was added to VR Button class.

VR Button Events

New Documentation Website

Due to customers requests, new documentation website was designed. Checkout the start guide to know how to use it.