OVRPlayer does'nt properly inherit orientation of parent

you likely have some issue with parent/child orientation translation while also having the "follow orientation" doing something similar.

please be more specific what happens. maybe add a screenshot of how your gameobjects are parented and what the settings on the controller are.

Ok, the heirarchy is as follows-

Ship-Wrapper --- Transforms are applied to this game object to move the ship around
=>Ship --This is the Mesh of Ship. There is a looping animation on this mesh that makes it 'rock on the water'
==>OVR Player Controller

I am using SDK version 0.4.2, although I've had this problem since I began making this with 0.2. On the OVR player the only parameters I have changed are the height and radius of the character controller.

On the OVRPlayerController, I have set 'follow orientation' to the transform of the main parent object. Even if this is not set, I still get the same problem. Finally, '~Tracker Rotates Y is enabled'. Everything else is set to default.

So the problem is that when I am walking around freely on the ship while it is moving, when the ship rotates on the y-axis, the player movement becomes 'wonky'. For example, if I attempted to walk from one end of the bridge to the other in a straight line, my player will constantly pull to to the left or right, regardless of whether the camera orientation is correct or not.

Some of the data I am working with is sensitive so sorry about the lack of screenshots

I have noticed weird behavior with nested gameobjects and rotations - do you use the OVRPlayerController?
If yes, have you tried a normal player controller and just adding the OVRCameraController to it instead?
Iirc the OVRPlayerController uses your looking direction as forward (there is the ForwardDirection gameobject you might want to have a look at when things get wonky) - using a normal Playercontroller will disable that and at the very least it could help you narrow the error source down.

OVRPlayerController is pretty bare-bones, and really isn't designed to be used in a real game (aside from simple walk-throughs). You may want to try using the default Unity first-person controller and putting the OVRCameraController inside. You can use the FollowOrientation parameter to sync them together. I know this helped with moving platforms and elevators. I did not try to rotating objects but it guess it could work.

Sweet!!

That seems to have done the trick. For those who are wondering, I made sure to uncheck the 'Moving Platform' and 'Sliding Options' in the Character Motor script. The transforms are working as I expect them to now.

Massive thanks to both of you