Parent player HMD to actor

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I’m trying to make a vehicle in VR and I need to be able to parent the player to the vehicle so that they can stay in.

I can SetActorLocation to that vehicle which does work, but on mobile, it lags back pretty bad, and this really isn’t an ideal solution. I tried doing a AttachToComponent from the player to the actor but this does nothing.

I can’t use a camera in the actor because the HMD only locks to the player.

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You actually can remove the camera from the player. We do it in our VR game.

Here’s some lazy C++ code to find your camera and attach (In your game mode or playercharacter):

UGameplayStatics::GetAllActorsOfClass(GetWorld(), CameraClass, FoundActors);
for (auto &actor : FoundActors)
{
	if (actor->GetName() == TEXT("MainCamera"))
	{
		pPlayer->SetViewTarget(actor);
		break;
	}
}

Here’s a blueprint example, in the persistent level:

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last edit: I just decided to put a cube inside the actor and make it invisible and then make the camera a child of the cube… what a weird workaround