GUI in Native mobile VR?

theZacAttacks

I've been trying to make a little game using the Native mobile interface and I cannot figure out how/where to position Control nodes so that they display properly when playing the game on a physical device.

Any ideas/help?

wombatstampede

I am missing a bit practical experience here because a) I haven't coded a VR app yet (just some experiments in godot 2 with double viewports and gyroscope) and b) I haven't done much in godot 3 yet but...:

In a VR app the GUI - if any- should be an object in 3D space. So you can basically map the GUI to a 2D texture, on a plane or one side of a box etc.

Here are examples for viewports: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-demo-projects/tree/master/viewport

From the description I guess that "gui_in_3d" is the correct demo.

The second question might be how to interact with the gui. I can imagine that you can use a raycast to determine where the axis of your view hits the 2d plane.

Better for VR might be building the GUI completely in 3D.

theZacAttacks

This was sort of the answer. In 3.0 there's some issue with viewports rendering to textures in materials. However, as was pointed out in the github issue, I was able to accomplish what I needed with a Sprite3D!

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction :smile: