Problems in the direction

Hi,

There's a problem in that, when I move my head my scene view also moves, however when I move forward, the camera won't move in the new direction that I'm looking at, it will keep moving as if I didn't move my head at all.
So basically, the only way to walk around my level is if I keep my head straigh, this way everything works, but the moment I start looking around, all the direction keys loose the orientation.
What can I do so that Unity follows the direction that I'm looking at ?

Thanks,
Bruno

 

One suggestion is, you can get the camera transforms' rotation, and use that to apply your motion.

 

I think I didn't explained correctly the problem
With the mouse, this works, I rotate the mouse around, and I'm able to move in the direction the mouse points at.
The problem is with the rift.

 

Ah, sorry. This should help: http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/VR.InputTracking.html

You could add a switch so that if you have VR enabled, it uses the rotation from InputTracking; otherwise, it uses the mouse movement: http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/VR.VRSettings.html

Alternately, not syncing the movement to the VR device allows the player to look in a direction other that where they're moving - Although I don't know if that's useful for your project. Some games, including Team Fortress (IIRC) do that. In that case, adding a direction indicator (such as model legs and arms) to indicate heading and facing could also help.

 

Thanks, I'l take a look at this, but how do we use this VR functions ?
Whatever I use from here, I get compilation errors of not recognizing the functions, VR.Device, VR.Settings, etc.

 

Hmm...I just assumed they'd work. Let me add a check in a test project...it works.

The code:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.   Debug.Log(VRDevice.family);
3.   Debug.Log(VRDevice.isPresent);
4.   Debug.Log(VRDevice.model);
5.   Debug.Log(InputTracking.GetLocalPosition(VRNode.Head));
6.   Debug.Log(InputTracking.GetLocalRotation(VRNode.Head));
7.   Debug.Log(VRSettings.enabled);
8.   Debug.Log(VRSettings.loadedDevice);
9.   Debug.Log(VRSettings.renderScale);
10.   Debug.Log(VRSettings.showDeviceView);
11.  

The results:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. oculus
3. true
4. Oculus Rift DK2
5. (0.0, 0.0, 0.0)
6. (0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0)
7. True
8. Oculus
9. 1
10. True
11.  

Hmm...Do you have any legacy Oculus plugins hanging around?

 

Nope, none of those commands are accepted by the compiler, it just fails "Unknown identifier "VRDevice".
Do you have to install anything from Oculus ? I haven't installed anything from them, only the Oculus runtime.
I'm with a DK1, but that should not make a difference I think.

 

Hmm...Try your own test project and run that code in a script? That would at least rule out a problem in your project.

 

Same thing, new project, simple script with those debugs, doens't compile.

 

I'm having a feeling it's too early to develop for the Rift.
This entire part of Unity is full of bugs..

 

@thep300 : Yes, that worked, now I can access the functions.

I think the problem is that I'm using UFPS.
How can I get the rotation of the Oculus ?
I think it's probably with InputTracking.GetLocalRotation, but I'm unable to feed this function with something that doesn't give an error.

UnityEngine.VR.InputTracking.GetLocalRotation(UnityEngine.VR.Head);

How do I feed a parameter to this function ?

Thanks,
Bruno

 

Yes, that works
Could you give me a hint on how to pass the direction of the Oculus to the camera ?