What else can it do? In our last episode we created two action maps: one for the player movement and one for the interaction. They may both be enabled at the same time and run alongside one another. Imagine the possibility of wanting to add a vehicle(land, sea, air, time) and it would be necessary to move said vehicle around. Add to the equation that while it might use a different code for locomotion it would also recycle the movement keys used to move the player around.

Let’s navigate the Territory

An Overview & Setup Guide The new Unity Input System is a comprehensive overhaul of the legacy system. It can be used alongside the old/legacy method. The new UIS is an interesting take on setting up player inputs. It employs its own window with a full assortment of features Getting Started: Install…

I made a mistake Over the weekend I was toying with my first solo VR project and I had uploaded it to my itch.io portfolio. Unfortunately, I uploaded it and did NOT include a summary or even the objectives and controls, thus rendering my project, at best, difficult to approach. …

A Great Way To Put Things In Their Place Here is the process we will be following to create useable, useful sockets. Our Socket Creation Workflow Add Grabbable Hats Turn Hooks Into Sockets Attach Hats By Default Put A Socket On Your Head Prevent Other Objects From Acting Like Hats Add Grabbable Hats Add some hats into the scene and attach hat → rigidbody — CollisionDetection(ContinuousDynamic Add XR Grab Interactable…

Picking Things Up Adds Interest. Now that we can turn and move, let’s pick some stuff up. Our workflow: replace orbs with hands Add a grabbable object Hide Hands & Disable Joystick Rotation Fine-Tune Throwing Pick up an object with a handle Replace Orbs With Hands The XR Rig has two child game objects (Left & RighthandController). Drag/Drop a hand prefab into the Model Prefab field. Add a grabbable object