Unreal VR Course - Section 1 - Architecture Explorer

Section 1 of the GameDev.tv Unreal VR Course, available on Udemy. Understand the causes of VR sickness. Implement teleportation, play-space movement and controller movement. Navigate an architectural scene.

0 Course Promo

• Why you should take the course.
• We overview the journey.
• What are the prerequisites?

1 Welcome And Course Orientation

• How is the course structured?
• How should I take the course?

2 Getting Into VR

• What about mobile VR?
• Supported hardware: Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
• Setting up our base project.
• How head tracking works in Unreal.

3 Movement Section Overview

• Overview of the syllabus for this section.
• A sneak peak at the project we will make.
• What you will get from this section.

4 Basic Controller Movement

• Why we will use a character.
• Finding the look direction.
• Setup the characters movement.
• The draw backs of controller movement.

5 Importing An ArchViz Environment

• Importing a beautiful environment.
• Why we shouldn't version these files.
• Setup the GameMode.
• Why do collisions behave strangely?

6 Playspace Movement and Colliders

• How can we avoid the collision issue?
• Adding a VR root component.
• Aligning the camera to the capsule.

7 What Is VR Sickness?

• Why do we feel VR sickness?
• The sensory systems involved.
• How do we fool our senses?
• What are the limits of existing techniques.

8 Line Tracing A Teleport Destination

• How does teleporting work?
• Creating a destination marker.
• Revision of Line Tracing in C++.
• Positioning the destination with gaze.

9 Importing And Using Materials

• Fixing the cylinder bug.
• Importing a teleport material.
• Showing/hiding the destination.

10 Fades, Timers and Teleporting

• Setting up a teleport action.
• Teleporting to the right location.
• Fading the camera.
• Setting a timer to fade up.

11 Projecting Onto The NavMesh

• How can we constrain the teleport destination?
• Setting up a NavMesh.
• Projecting to the NavMesh.
• A brief refactor.

12 PostProcessing Materials

• What is a material?
• Creating a post processing material.
• Overview of the nodes we need.
• Creating a tunnel vision effect.

13 Dynamic Material Instances

• What are material parameters?
• Setup a post processing component.
• Dynamic vs static material instances.
• Creating a material instance.

14 Adjusting Radius With A Curve

• What is a curve?
• Accessing a curve from C++.
• Setting the radius from speed.

15 Creating Tunnel Vision

• Where is the centre of movement?
• Updating the blinker centre.
• Projecting to the screen.
• Getting the screen size.
• Calculating the centre.

16 Hand Controller Components

• Setup hand controller components.
• Where are the hand controller meshes?
• Teleporting with hand controllers.

17 Parabolic Teleport Pointer

• Why use a parabolic path?
• How do we trace a parabolic path?
• Predicting a projectile in Unreal.

18 Using A USplineComponent

• Adding to a spline component.
• How the component works.
• Previewing the spline in debug mode.
• Setting the spline control points in C++.

19 Dynamically Constructing UObjects

• Creating a new object.
• Dynamically attaching components.
• Why is RegisterComponent() important?
• Setup meshes and materials.
• Storing an object pool.

20 Deforming Meshes With Splines

• What is a USplineMeshComponent?
• Replacing the UStaticMeshComponent
• Getting the spline tangents.
• Tracing the spline.
• Hiding extra meshes.

21 Extracting A Hand Controller Actor

• Why should hand controllers be actors?
• Spawn actors on BeginPlay.
• Move UMotionControllerComponent into Actors.
• Fix other build errors.
• Create a Blueprint child actor.

22 Querying Overlapping Actors

• Creating hand hold actors.
• Handling overlap events.
• Querying overlapping actors.
• Printing on the rising edge.

23 Haptic Feedback Effects

• Haptic Feedback Effect curves.
• Playing the effect on hand controllers.

24 Climbing Motion

• Binding input to the controllers.
• Setting starting climb state.
• Updating the parent location.

25 Climbing Motion Part 2

• Creating a climbing wall.
• Setting movement modes.
• Pairing the controllers.
• Stealing control.

26 End Of Section Review

• We review what we have learnt.
• How to practice your new knowledge.

27 A Short Pause...

Production goes on a short pause till june.