Changing Character height

Hi there,

I'm doing my player crouch by decreasing the height value of the character controller in realtime.
The camera follows the character controller, and all works good.
However, using DK2 , the character controller is scaled, physics work, but now the camera is stuck at the original height.
I'm using the manual oculus implementation (OVRPlayerController).

Any clues on how to fix this ?

Thanks,
Bruno

 

We ran into this a bit with our game. We're using the native in-engine oculus implementation, so the situation might be different. Still, we were experiencing behavior where the camera was moving based on its initial position as well as the orientation of the Oculus. This is of course, expected. You want the camera to turn with VR, but the Oculus implementation also takes into account position in the native code. So if the Oculus rift gets higher, the camera view gets higher and so on. This doesn't work for our game since we have situations that require the player to be certain heights.

The way we got around this was having a counter mover. At run time, if a VR headset is detected, we create an empty game object at the camera's original position. We parent that new game object under our player, then move the camera under the new game object. Then, as the game plays, this new intermediary game objects reads the changes in the camera's local position, and acts accordingly to counteract it.

I don't know if this will work for you, but this is what we did to get things working for our situation.

 

In OVRPlayerController is a bool called useProfileData. This overrides camera position. Uncheck this and you can set the camera position as you wish.

 

This saved me a lot of time man, thanks a lot! Works like a charm.

 

umartin, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!