So my Razer Hydra arrived and I spent a little bit of time trying to set it up via Getnamo’s Razer Hydra plugin for UE4, which is awesome! I was able to quickly get it passing values into the game.

The problem lies in transforming the controller position from base-station-relative space to the game’s world space (or the character’s local/component space, even).

After toying with it for a bit I could get it to almost work, but for now I’m setting that aside until Mrob76u, author of the Ultima Underworld VR Remake can share his setup.

I got back to working on the base gameplay and made some decent progress.

Progress towards the gameplay video:

• Health, damage, and death for the rats
• Crushing/impact damage for the rats so that the player jumping onto them causes damage
• Rats spawn a rat corpse item that the player can pickup (and eat), on death
• Rats take damage from fire
• Fixed a couple of misc. bugs
• Fixed throwing force so that throwing a torch is satisfying

Here’s the list of remaining stuff to do from last time, some of which I’ll hopefully get to tonight.

• Kick attack for the player
• Two-handed pickup animation and code setup for the player (to throw barrels)
• Creating a “flee” state for the AI, so that rats that have been attacking run away faster than the normal walk speed
• Setting up flee mode so that cowardly/non-aggressive rats will skitter away when the player nears
• Blood effects on damage for the rat attacks, and also when the rats are damaged
• Hunger/starvation code and an eating AI for the rats.