the situation: Person P1 starts the game via VR Preview Mode as CLIENT. Person P2 does the same but as LISTENING SERVER. Both use the same project. The project is NOT PACKAGED and they play from the unreal editor.
The goal: P1 connects to P2 and they see each other moving around in the same map.
The misery: P1 tries the ‘Open’ command. He/She types ‘Open ipOfP2’ into the console, but after issuing the command nothing happens. As a result P1 and P2 get confused because the same workflow worked flawlessly when playing via standalone play (aka not VR).
MY QUESTION: Is networked-play/multiplayer from the editor supported while playing in VR preview mode?
I suspect no because I tried 3 different engine versions (4.21, 4.19, 4.11) with the corresponding VR template and nothing worked. If no, is there any way to get VR Multiplayer working without having to package the game?
If you need it for just testing before packaging, you could setup an asynchronious system, in which one of the players is non-VR and the other is VR. See previous livestream.
Yes, networking between one person with VR and one person without VR works perfectly. The problem is that we don’t want to package the project.
We use a plugin to generate code cities (or in a more broad terminology: code visualization). This plugin relies on functionality provided by the editor. Without this functionality packaging is useless. As it stands, packaging is not a option (this may change depending on if we get multiplayer VR from the editor to work).
I will check out the livestream nevertheless, thank you!
Thank’s again! Yes I understand. Yet this still doesn’t solve the core problem, which is that both player need to play in VR. Sorry if I didn’t make it clear enough.
Do you have a VR setup that allows multiple headsets to be attached to the same computer? How will you get two VR HMDs working at all? I know that at least SteamVR doesn’t support this.
Thank you for your comment! No, we don’t have a computer with >=two simultaneous connected VR-headsets. We have two distinct computers and each has a HTC Vive connected to it.
Hello, I have the same scenario and the same problem that I want to make networking between two VR headsets with different PCs, and I want to run this from the editor. Are you able to find a solution?
I have been curious to know if anyone could find a way to have multiplayer over the Lan in VR Preview mode, and without packaging the project, since there is VR scouting mode and multiuser mode for editing simultaneously in the editor, I imagine it should be possible to also create a server VR preview mode, please let me know if someone succeeded.