I have spent the past days implementing the animations of the fingers to physically interact with the obects. In this case an animator isn’t useful at all because the finger should fit objects of different shapes.
I started by working directly on rigidbodies and applying forces, but finally realized that this wasn’t an optimal solution because, after I have moved the fingers around an object, to grab it, I want them to stay in place. Using object transformations instead I have control over the current rotation and this also avoids unnatural positions of the fingers.
I therfore created hand and finger classes, and builded a simple hand object.
and achieved the result shown in the animation above.
The hand is currently working in the following way:
The four fingers move simultaneously (not indipendently), what I’ll be referring as fingers ar actually the 3 segments which they are divided into. Every finger has its movement limited to a single axis rotation between a min and a max value. When the grab button is pressed every finger will start closing until the maximum rotation is reached, or if the last finger touches something (through a collider). When the grab button is released, the fingers will open again.
Initially I added colliders to every finger and the algorithm was more complex in orther to have every finger touching the object. However I had to dscard this solution because in many cases you can’t or don’t want all the finger touching the object but just the tip.
- Type of project: VR
- Repository: Github