Plugins [Experimental] Tongue and Finger Controllers

This plugin adds controllers to the tongue and fingertips.

Disclaimer
This is a prototype and intended as a proof of concept. There are caveats and bugs. I am unlikely to maintain or extend it in any serious way but happy to work with anyone that wants to build off of it.

Usage

Two steps:

1. Add As a Session Plugin

This will modify the prefab from which people are created to add the new controllers. It'll then affect models that are added afterwards.

Recommend doing this in an empty scene before loading anything.

This step is required to make things work correctly. Atoms have some read-only state that gets baked in during initialization and I can't find a way to modify it.

Note: You can set a session plugin preset as a default so it gets loaded automatically:


2. Add it to model

This enables using the UI to enable/disable controllers.


















It's a little clumsy to use. I guess there's a reason these weren't included by default. A couple of recommendations from my own time playing around with it...

• Parent the fingers to the hand. If I ever make a UI there'll definitely be a button for that.
• Use Eosin's Iron Gripto relax the fingers as they're otherwise quite stiff.
  • I set the strength factor to something very low like 0.03, and uncheck "Use Finger Defaults As Min".
  • Reducing the collider size helps too.

Known Issues

• Will not affect models loaded before plugin. Due to the way VAM seems to work, this will carry over between scenes.
• No way to remove the controllers without a restart. Disabling the plugin will not do it.