EditorXR 0.4 available on Unity Package Manager

Hello,
After reading this, it is unclear to me what version of Unity I should use in order to get started with XR Editor.
Are you saying if I use 2020.x everything works fine but in 2019.1 and 2019.2 I have to do modifications?
Or are you saying it only works in 2019.1 and 2019.2?
And with the input system.... it is still only the old input system?
I am starting a new project and ideally this would be with a version of XR editor, on a 2020 with a version of Unity with OpenXR and with the new input system.

 

Thank you! This is extremely helpful and clarifies a ton.
I'll start with 2019.4 and use "both" input systems. Between your clarification and the thread below (Am I too stupid to install EditorXR) I have it up and running again now.
I am intending to use it for my creation (editing) workflow and not part of a runtime experience. I would like to modify EditorXR to be more keyboard and mouse based (the wands are just cumbersome) but it sounds like modifying EditorXR should wait until after your next release?

 

Hey! This Editor + VR is just future!!!!!
I know that built in binary development is not fast, So think it's better implement all Editor VR technology to kinda Runtime-playmode- VR, and find the way to not to destroy objects after playing the editor!


I mean kinda add another a UI button close to play buttons. So it will run not the real played game but will run editor modification mesh building, level designing stufs!

 

Hi, this is great news. I'm testing EditorXR in 2020.2.4f1, it works but since I'm using URP the controllers just show as pink. Could you advise the best way to fix this please? Thanks.

 

Hello,
Thank you so much for release.
I am testing EditorVR with Unity 2020.1.17 and SteamVR 2.7.3 with HMD Vive.
Unfortunately, when I open Window, i didn't see EditorVR. Could you have any advise?


Thank you so much for your response.

 

Unity 2020.1 and above can currently only run the EditorXR in play mode.

You can run the EditorVR in edit mode, from post above "you must use Unity 2019.1, 2019.2, 2019.3, or 2019.4, and you just enable VR using the Project Settings > Player > XR Settings menu, _not_ the XR Plugin Management package and related plugin packages."

 

Thank you so much, I will test it in play mode with unity 2020.1.17

 

Dang. Got really excited, then really disappointed. VR in edit mode is (was...) a killer feature.

Built-in support for VR editing would be incredible. I have tried using the Unity editor in desktop mode within VR, but many features are inaccessible this way and often the only remedy is to take all the gear off, make a change, put it back on again. Sometimes I try to balance the headset on my head without it falling off just to keep everything nearby. It's a bit of an acrobatic exercise...

Just my anecdotes

Apparently new tools are under development, if collaborator comments on GitHub issues are to be believed. Patience is hard sometimes.

 

So that means it should work in newer Unity versions again soon?
I really hope so, as this is a really cool concept to me.

 

I see, thanks for the hard work but how come the Exec folks haven't funded this project properly ? There will be a huge market for VR editors pretty soon. It seems that newer versions of Unity should come preinstalled with a VR editor feature (Unreal does it), do you need us to give the good word to the higher ups ?

 

I was directed to this thread by @amirebrahimi_unity from here.

I still feel like I'm skipping a crucial step.
I've installed the following:
Unity 2020.3.25f1
EditorXR 0.4.12
XR Interaction Toolkit 2.0.0
Under XR Plug-in Management, I have selected OpenXR.

The scene I've created works well (as in, it plays on my Quest 1, interactions work as expected).

Now I'd like to manipulate the scene with the EditorXR tool.

Under Project Settings>EditorXR>Conext Manager, I have checked all the options there:


The scene still plays fine, but still no EditorXR.

Then, I add a gameobject to the scene with the EditingConextManager component, and now when I enter play mode, I get "Display 1 No cameras rendering".

What am I overlooking?

 

One more thing of note:
Whenever I save the scene, the following message appears in the console:

Saving Prefab to immutable folder is not allowed: Packages/com.unity.editorxr/Runtime/Scripts/Modules/SnappingModule/Prefabs/MenuFaceSnapping.prefab
UnityEditor.EditorApplication:Internal_CallGlobalEventHandler ()

 

2022 here, still nothing ?

 

Are the APIs for accessing VR devices in Editor mode from Unity available? Or an explainer?

I want it in Edit mode. In my case, I want to use with Sequences package (position characters in scenes more quickly and accurately) and Animation Rigging package (move IK targets of characters to create simple animation clips directly in the Animation window). Entering Play mode is not an option here - I need to stay in Editor mode to use all the Unity editor tools and windows. I just want a better "mouse". I am happy looking at the screen, using mouse for menus, etc.

But I would like to be able to move objects more precisely with a 6 degrees-of-freedom mouse (aka VR hand controller - x/y/z movements and rotations). Using a 2D mouse is slower and less precise. So I personally don't care about the HMD side of things. I was thinking "select the object to move in the scene with the normal mouse, then pick up and use the VR controller to perform relative movements to move the object (when a button is pressed etc).

Any examples on how to use the APIs to get VR inputs without entering Play mode? I don't need (or even want) HMD rendering. Examples so far for reading from VR devices seem to assume you are in Play mode...

 

Hello there, you were able to make it work ? By which miracle ? Are you using something different than Quest 2 ?

 

No, I did not get it to work, but I did an educational hack using the Unity Virtual Capture app. I added the relevant camera component to a car in a scene, then I could use my iPhone to move the car around. I could not pick up and drop, but it taught me a few things
(1) Fast feedback loops are critical. It was quite sluggish because it was also streaming the camera to the iphone. I turned that off, and it felt much better. But precise movement was still hard due to latency.
(2) I really do want grab and release triggers with relative movements (natural in a VR app).
(3) It really needs to be aligned with the screen. I added it to the car sideways at first and there was no way to train my brain to move the phone sideways for front/back movement due to being off by 90 degrees.

But I did not learn any new APIs from EditorXR. I still think this would be great to have, but been too busy to try it out with VR controllers. I did not get past step 1 of working out how to get the controller position without being in Play mode.

 

I think it's too much for just one person to handle the work needed, they had a working editor that has been abandoned, nobody on the team can answer when we'll get an update (2024 at best). While it is a standard feature on Unreal now, what is going on with the heads at Unity to let that great tool to rot ?

 

Hello,

I was hoping this could receive an update. I would love to try out the editor in VR, I feel like it offers a great experience when level designing being able to see the changes visually especially when working on VR game. Hoping to hear back!

 

Hi!

I was trying to set the EditorXR (0.4.12) package for my project in Unity 2022.2.1f1 but I didn`t find a way to make it work. As far as I have read, the only way to make it work is using the runtime version.

I followed the information I found in this link but I`m still unable to use it.

When I press 'Play' nothing happens, I see that some new elements appear in my hierarchy, but nothing is show in screen.

 

Hey, is this project still in development? Any ETA on when it might be updated? Is there a place I can follow for changes etc.?
I'm interested in building onto EditorXR features and I would appreciate any information on when this package might become more viable for production. I'd also love to see a roadmap for this feature, if there is one.