[FEATURE REQUEST] Teleport movement with laser pointer

[nucleiis]

Thank you for UEVR, it is already great but adding teleport will make it greater because there are tons of people cannot overcome or adapt VR nausea.

Since most UE4/5 games use the same character movement component, I guess it would be quite possible to add some laser pointer which can be controlled via VR controller and event handlers overriding character position / rotation using raycast on the floor (i.e UCharacterMovementComponent::FindFloor).

For VR newbies, this will make UEVR much more comfortable and enjoyable!

[praydog]

@narknon thoughts? Do all UE games have consistent raycast flags that are always going to hit a surface correctly?

[praydog]

Though if it is part of a FindFloor function for a built-in engine movement component that seems like it would work

[narknon]

I think FindFloor is more for directly under the movement component. Most games do use a child class of the UE movement component, but some don't so that may not always work.

I think the ideal setup would be either the projectile slope calculation function, two line traces for max tp distance then down to floor, or a single linetrace straight out from pointer if not doing a max distance option (having max distance feels like it would allow for better mods overall so you can't just tp across the map).

To check if it is a valid TP location you can check if there is nav data on the spot, though that should probably be a toggle for whether to check it or not because some games use weird custom nav.

[emile0909]

If implementing teleport is relative complex, I have some thought which is inspired by how VRChat teleports and I myself feel comfortable. VRChat teleport

We can have a key bind to switch between normal mode and teleport mode. When user is in teleport mode, if user pushes left joystick, the camera position freezes; if user releases left joystick, camera position doesn't freeze and then teleports to the new location.

I suppose this need less effort to experiment and we can see if user is satisfied with this work around.