VR Pawn Movement using Hand Activated Controls - Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial

This tutorial shows how to create a VR Pawn with movements that can be steered using the virtual hands acting on internal controls.
This technique can be used for VR locomotion or to control VR vehicles, virtual machinery, space ships etc.
Demo of the finished project at 16:57.

[@BorisTheMonkey]

I was literally just thinking about the possibility of a VR game where you move around in an electric wheelchair and youtube recomends this, perfect!

[@eserersek1017]

This tutorial is diamond in the dump.

[@ukkusu]

Another very interesting tutorial thank you very much again for sharing knowledge, it`s remind me electric remote control cars for kids i always want it but never got ! Now i turn back to my childhood :)

[@marcoghislanzoni]

Hey, thanks for your nice comment. Actually that is something I always wanted to work on since the time I made my drone concept: remote controlled cars in VR!

[@SinanAkkoyun]

Oh my god, I need more UE4 VR tutorials like this one, short and conceicive * D *

[@rajatk]

Wow.. This tutorial came out at right time.. Thank you so much..!!!!!

[@marcoghislanzoni]

You are welcome!

[@freelancesignup7796]

aisa?

[@josuelopez6318]

thank you so much brother! you saved my life!

[@EthanFilms]

It'd be neat to see this controlled with a VR steering wheel :) have yet to see anyone cover that

[@Phoenix_VR]

Excellent video by the way sir.

[@Drahoslav_Lysak]

Amazing tutorial! Many many thanks!

[@marcoghislanzoni]

You are welcome!

[@holymolyguzman]

Great tut!

[@Harshkapoor97]

Really Helpful. Thank you so much!

[@tahagungor9968]

you are amazing, thank you so much for your videos.

[@beccahornsey]

So helpful! Thank you!

[@yasmeen3165]

Hi Great Tutorial! I have one question, I'm using unreal engine with version 4.27.1 and I don't the hands skeletons there. how can I import the meshes? do I need to install version 4.18.3 and get from there or is there another way? (didn't find good ones in the marketplace)

[@marcoghislanzoni]

The hand meshes as well as the "old" template are in 4.26.x. Not sure if Epic is still distributing them a separate assets, I don't think so unfortunately.

[@yasmeen3165]

@@marcoghislanzoni I will try to get it from there. Thank you.

[@gamesmore5678]

i'm trying to do something similar, but i don't know why i ca move one hand at time. for example: i move both controllers but only left hand moves, but if i press any button of the right controller, right hand start moving but left hand don't. what could it be? i tried to follow you steps until placing the pawn but nothing. i'm using an oculus quest so i must launch the game everytime -.-

[@CanalDojogames]

Nice Idea i love It!

[@justanormalguyhere2408]

hi antmation the righthand_AnimBP coming not up for me. plz i only need litte help

[@Mourdraug]

Great tutorial but I can't help myself: vr wheelchair simulator be like. :D

[@marcoghislanzoni]

I am sure it would be useful to experience what city barriers feel like to someone on a wheelchair.

[@edizz8648]

How do i get teh Motion Controller Events? Its not an option for me, when i search in my inputs

[@marcoghislanzoni]

If you don't them you need to define then as inputs in project settings --> inputs

[@edizz8648]

@@marcoghislanzoni thanks for the quick answer Marco. How do i add the buttons of my controller to the inputs? i just couldn't quite figure it out

[@marcoghislanzoni]

@@edizz8648 like I explained above. Go to Edit > Project Settings > inputs and add them

[@marcoghislanzoni]

@@edizz8648 it is under Project Settings --> Inputs

[@redguard10]

This tutorial helped me out a lot but I hit a wall again trying to do a full body IK. Do I need 3 point sensors to achieve that or can i do it with just an hmd and the motion controllers ?

[@marcoghislanzoni]

The 3 point sensors is for better tracking, it doesn't really help with body IK. What would help is to have more trackers on your body.

[@chriskern1510]

How would I convert that to be used on an object rotation rather than having the pawn attached. As in I walk up to the button, contact with my hand, and it performs the rotation.

[@marcoghislanzoni]

For that I would just create an actor blueprint containing the object you want to rotate. The root should be a scene component, then you can add two spheres for controlling the rotation and the main object to rotate. On the overlap of the two spheres with the VR pawn, you can use AddRelativeRotation to rotate the main object mesh in one direction or the other. It should be pretty straightforward.

[@chriskern1510]

@@marcoghislanzoni Thank you for the quick response:) I well go that direction. All so Grate tutorial! Thanks again.

[@ItzLeX27]

Yo could you try and remake the gorilla tag controls in unreal?

[@marcoghislanzoni]

Sorry don't know what you are referring to as Gorilla Tag controls

[@ItzLeX27]

@@marcoghislanzoni Using your arms to move. Like you have to touch the ground in the game to move forward. Just look up a video of gorilla tag. But essentially walking, running, wall jumping, sliding on slippery surfaces, and very hard to do but still possible wall running. But this is all done with the movement of your hand and not a joystick combo’d with a button.

[@marcoghislanzoni]

@@ItzLeX27 Got it. There are some tutorials around for arm swing movements in VR. I guess that is what you are looking for.

[@ItzLeX27]

@@marcoghislanzoni Ye

[@ItzLeX27]

@@marcoghislanzoni Nono not arm swing movement it's hand swing movement. Your hand touches the ground and you jump. You use this to move around the map.

[@Phoenix_VR]

can this be combined with the VR 3rd person body method u made before?

[@marcoghislanzoni]

Sure, it can.