SteamVR_Controller could not be found

Question

I am trying to create a Pokemon Go clone in Unity following this tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH942mANiv4). However, I'm trying to also make it work in VR with SteamVR.

However, following the guide to the Vive on Wenderlich's website here (https://www.raywenderlich.com/792-htc-vive-tutorial-for-unity), I get the following error:

Assets/Scripts/ViveControllerInput.cs(7,13): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'SteamVR_TrackedObject' could not be found. Are you missing 'Valve.VR' using directive?

I am dragging the ViveControllerInputTest onto both controllers, but I still get this compile error.

Without the script, I am able to put on the headset and see the controllers and walk around.

Any help would be appreciated! Thank you

Solution

With the release of version 2.0 of the SteamVR Unity Plugin, Valve have updated the code to use the new SteamVR Input system (removing the previous Controller system). More info:

• https://steamcommunity.com/games/250820/announcements/detail/1696059027982397407
• https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1416820276

You can either:

• update your project to use the new SteamVR Input system, or
• download a previous version of the SteamVR Unity Plugin from Github and manually add it to your project. For example, version 1.2.3 of the SteamVR Unity Plugin can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamvr_unity_plugin/releases/tag/1.2.3

Comments

[Gilles]

If you want to spend your time creating your game, rather than fixing SteamVR, you'd better stay away from version 2 for now!