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rbennett22
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9 years ago
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In Unity: How to make OVRAvatar play nicely with OVRPlayerController?

I recently obtained my Oculus Touch Controllers and am attempting to integrate OVRAvatar with OVRPlayerController (in Unity).  The downloadable OVRAvatar samples work correctly for me, however if I child the OVRCameraRig to an OVRPlayerController, I can no longer see the avatar hands.

One partial solution I found is to child the OVRAvatar GameObject to the OVRPlayerController GameObject.  However the hands then do not render in the correct positions under certain circumstances, such as when OVRPlayerController's "Use Profile Data" property is checked, or if OVRPlayerController's "HMD Rotates Y" property is checked.

So I am wondering if there is a better way to allow the avatar to correctly follow the player as they move?

Please let me know if I should provide any other helpful details about my setup or what I have tried.



oculus touch
OVRAvatar
OVRPlayerController
Unity

5 Replies

  • FocusVRGames's avatar
    FocusVRGames
    Adventurer
    9 years ago
    Have you set your LocalAvatar to a child of tracking space?

    I have it working with
    OVRPlayerController
         OVRCameraRig
             TrackingSpace
                  LocalAvatar

    Hope that helps
  • rbennett22's avatar
    rbennett22
    Explorer
    9 years ago
    SOLVED.  Making the LocalAvatar a child to TrackingSpace works for me.

    P.S.  It turns out the main issue I'm having is related to loading additional scenes.  I'm looking into solutions to this issue, and will post on a separate thread if I have additional Q's or beneficial findings. 

    EDIT:  I have posted about the main issue I am having here:
    https://forums.oculus.com/developer/discussion/47780/ovravatar-rendered-parts-freeze-upon-loading-new-scene-when-using-dontdestroyonload/p1?new=1

    Thanks!

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Just an update from my own derivation of this forum and also in my limited experience, the best way to implement OvrAvatar is to import the OculusPlatform asset as well as the OvrAvatar asset. I also notices that Unity Editor likes it better if you import them respectively as I have stated them. Thank you all so much for any and all contributions! I am so grateful! Happy VR'ing!
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Also those OvrAvatar shaders do, in fact, take that long to import... So don't panic! :)
  • tkdHayk's avatar
    tkdHayk
    Protege
    8 years ago
    MickyX said:

    Have you set your LocalAvatar to a child of tracking space?

    I have it working with
    OVRPlayerController
         OVRCameraRig
             TrackingSpace
                  LocalAvatar

    Hope that helps


    Thanks for this. It works! The only issue is, the character controller does not follow the player's roomscale movement. The player can walk away from his body. The OVRCameraRig moves with the player, leaving behind its parent, the OVRPlayerController. I need the player controller to follow the OVR camera movement. anyone know how to get this done properly?