Today I’m following a Pluralsight tutorial on creating a first person camera and teleportation system using Blueprints in Unreal Engine. In this Blueprint, we are creating a way for the player to “teleport” from VR_Pawn to VR_Pawn1 when the number 1 key is pressed on the keyboard, and VR_Pawn2 when the number 2 key is pressed, allowing the player to move around the scene.

Here are the views as I click between the original, 1 and 2 keys. (Also, I updated the tree a bit from the previous image, but have not tested it in VR yet to see if the geometry “explodes.”)

The Blueprint allowed me to successfully move around the scene using keyboard keys while experimenting in the VR Preview.

This was helpful for understanding the concept, but in order for it to work in the Gear VR headset, I will need to understand how to map inputs from Gear VR instead of keyboard keys.

In Unreal Engine, I was able to tweak the BP_Sky_Sphere colors to give my scene a red glow. I then created a Material by importing a PNG image of the root chakra symbol, and applied that Material to a flattened Cylinder to form the disc that appears below the tree roots.

For the music, I wanted to insert some placeholder music for now, so I selected this “Relaxing Traditional Music of West Java” that I converted to a WAV file from this Youtube video. Soon I hope to work with a local musician to use original gamalan (traditional Javanese) music instead. I watched this tutorial on how to insert background music.

Now when you hit Play, the background music plays in the scene.

Here is the root of the tree inserted into a scene in Unreal Engine, with the salamander imported and positioned as well.

Note: One of the first things I did was carefully create folders and subfolders for all the meshes I would be importing, because I think scenes and materials can get complicated quickly!

Here is another view, where you can see the mushrooms, and also a cauldron I modeled.