How to Add and Customize VR Grabbable Objects in Unreal Engine 5.4 | VR Tutorial Series

[@justin7649]

Amazing tutorial! Very clear and concise, exactly what I was looking for. You're a great teacher, so thank you for this!

[@WeiBai-tx3oo]

Hi, Eric. This series is good for VR beginer. Looking forward to the next video.

[@EricVTuber]

Hey, thanks!

[@РоманВолк-ц5н]

Great tutorial! Thanx!

[@FeuerDrache0702]

This such a cool series! Great for people wanting to create their own unreal engine vr games! Sky is the limit :)

[@eduardoquintella8684]

Hi, Eric. As always, one more great tutorial. Just be aware to flip the flashlight geometry normals. If you have a plan to make a tutorial on how to turn on and off this flashlight it would be great. Thanks!

[@EricVTuber]

Why do I need to flip the normals? I can send you a guide on how to build a blueprint to turn the flashlight on and off if you need right away. My next video I planned to show how to have your hands interact with things in the environment versus this one which was had to make something you can grab and such. Let me know if you want a guide on the on / off

[@eduardoquintella8684]

@@EricVTuber Hi, Eric.I tryed the same workflow as you did just to check this issue. At first I thought the normals were flipped. I tryed to fix and it still kind of transparent. I could fix it by changing the material blending mode from "translucent" to "opaque". This way the geometry gets the same as you see at the sketchfab viewer. How can I get this guide to build the blueprint? It would be very usefull to me. Thanks again.🙂

[@EricVTuber]

@@eduardoquintella8684 I made you (and anyone) a recipe for how to make it so the light can be turned on when grabbed and off when dropped. Here you go: drive.google.com/file/d/1qHPE9pnK5FageDFUuvIHOKXMNbKpIZk3/view?usp=drive_link

[@eduardoquintella8684]

@@EricVTuber Hi, Eric. Thank you very much! This is exactly what I was looking for. I´ll follow this steps now and let you know about the result.🙌

[@eduardoquintella8684]

@@EricVTuber It worked perfect! As i´m using the UE5.3.2, I could not found the OnGrab and Onrelease functions. Instead I used "on grabbed" and "on dropped" events. The only thing that could be implemented is the same principle to the emissive material in the flashlight. I`ve made my own model and used three materials (black paint, glass and emissive). Do you think its easy to turn on and off the emissive material? Thanks a lot!

[@lzeng-yl6pj]

Thank you for such a great UE5.4 tutorial and thank you again my friend. I don't know if you have time to make this tutorial in its entirety. As a newbie, I especially wanted to understand how to make a complete project, I wanted to understand how to set up a multiplayer game, how to do multiplayer positioning in a large space, and how to finally package it into a complete game and distribute it to each client. In other words, it will eventually be able to allow many people to play with each other in a large space, and I would like to ask how to set up the wireless streaming method, and whether the wireless streaming of multiple people will not interfere with each other. The bitrate and frame rate are appropriate. Thank you again my friend, I wish you all the best and look forward to your answers.

[@EricVTuber]

Go check out parsach.com that just launched for publishing and sharing. Multiplayer is a ton of work and not that easy yet sadly.

[@basilhsxatzhkostas]

Can you make a bow and arrow tutorial? For instance you draw the arrow from your back similar to half life alyx and put the arrow to the bow and shoot

[@DaveMain]

You mentioned a video that explains using doors and light switches in VR. When can we expect that? I have Horror Engine and can't get the drag and drop doors and lights to open or turn on/off.

[@EricVTuber]

I have been spending a lot of time working on non VR projects in the AI area so sorry I didn’t get to that video yet. I will try to shift time to it next month. Been making a call of duty app for squads that I have been having a great time with learning to build apps with AI.

[@SpudHead42]

Can you PLEASE do a video on how to setup smooth locomotion for standalone vr? Nobody has done it that I can fine.

[@EricVTuber]

Did you see my videos on my various movement modes?

[@glenfoxh]

Got it mostly working in 5.4 now. I had to disable all other OpenXR plugins, aside from the main one needed. That meant turning off both the eye, and hand OpenXR plugins, that was both on by default. Having them on in 5.3 is not an issue for me, but in 5.4 I need to have them off. The head tracking is still a bit jerky, but much more mild. And they jerky movement is non existent, when I move to the back and face the back, wile in the shadows. And some of the shadows still suck. Mostly it's the shadows to moveable objects that suck. Not only do they not render right, but seem to cause my head tracking issues, when I look at them. Again, none of that is an issue in 5.3. But at least, some of it works in 5.4 now. Just not as well as I had hoped. And I'm not the only one having these issue trying to use VR in 5.4, that they too didn't have in 5.3. Would say, there is plenty of new bugs added to 5.4 that was not there in 5.3. >.> I could spend some time trying different shadow settings to see what works. Maybe converting all to Lumen, might fix it, if Lumen is not already on. Or, I may need to turn it off, if it is on. I don't know. I may work in 5.3 after all, until the VR issues in 5.4 get fixed.

[@MidnightVampiro]

This method teaches bad habits. Instead of doing this directly within the level, it's better to create a child of the Grabbable cube and set everything up there. This makes it more cost-effective and performance-efficient. Moreover, if you delete a flashlight placed in the level, you won't need to restart everything because blueprints are saved separately, creating a smoother workflow. you always want to handle things like this in a blueprint. no disrespect to the creator. it is an amazing tutorial. Just If you do it in the level instead of blueprint you will have to repeat this process a lot. or copy and paste the item into levels . when you could just make a blueprint. and simply place it in you're level or create an inventory system.

[@fishtankstudiosUEFN]

BooM This is the way...

[@FPChris]

Is lumen and nanite working in 5.4?

[@EricVTuber]

Yes getting better each release

[@glenfoxh]

Got through most of this, 90%, but when testing this in 5.4, it's not working like it did in 5.3. Movement is jerky. Very jerky! >.< Shadows are bad. And I have no hands showing, nor any controller inputs. As in, can't turn with the control. Made a fresh VR build in 5.4, with no changes. And the same. No hands, bad shadows, jerky head movement. So now, I got to figure out why VR is not working in 5.4, before I can use it. >.> But everything you have shown, works great in 5.3. So, there is that.