FloatingHand | A standalone, fully animatable physics hand for your scenes
FloatingHand spawns VaM's own VR controller hand as a scene object on an Empty atom. It comes with the same per-finger joint physics and collision as the VR hands. Every control is a triggerable, so you can animate everything in Timeline.
This plugin is aimed at scene creators and animators! Everything is designed to be posed once and keyframed in Timeline.
Features
How to use
Add an Empty atom and load FloatingHand.cs onto it.
About the "GPU Colliders (hair + cloth)" toggle
This gives the hand collision with hair and clothing (is also required for Cloth Grab). It's off by default: turning it on builds the colliders one at a time over roughly 25 seconds (the progress is shown above the hand). This slow build is on purpose, since adding colliders in bulk mid-scene can crash VaM installs that are running the Performance Patch. This one-by-one build is what makes it safe without crashing. Scenes that are saved with the toggle on will rebuild the colliders on each scene load.
FloatingHand spawns VaM's own VR controller hand as a scene object on an Empty atom. It comes with the same per-finger joint physics and collision as the VR hands. Every control is a triggerable, so you can animate everything in Timeline.
This plugin is aimed at scene creators and animators! Everything is designed to be posed once and keyframed in Timeline.
Features
- Real physics hand (left or right, dark or light skin) that moves and is animated via its Empty atom's control.
- 20 per-finger sliders (grouped per finger) plus a master Grasp slider.
- Save your own poses: After adjusting each finger, save the pose to become animatable with slider. Your poses are saved in "\Saves\PluginData\FloatingHand", and can be shared with the community.
- Import hand pose morphs: Scan the Person in the scene to import hand pose morphs from the Person atom. This allows you
- Finger Strength: stiff fingers that have more pushback, or soft fingers that flop around with movement.
- Cloth Grab: Just like the VR hands, the fingertips have clothgrabspheres attached to them. Enable the toggle to grab clothing, disable to release.
- Hand Scale for small or giant hands.
- Wetness slider
- Hide/show the hand mid-animation with the handEnabled toggle.
How to use
Add an Empty atom and load FloatingHand.cs onto it.
- Pick hand side and model. Move or animate the Empty's control with timeline or animation patterns.
- Pose with the finger sliders, or press Scan Hand Morphs (with any Person present) and add poses from existing morphs. Save poses you like and animate the saved pose slider.
- To hide the hand during parts of your animation, use handEnabled.
About the "GPU Colliders (hair + cloth)" toggle
This gives the hand collision with hair and clothing (is also required for Cloth Grab). It's off by default: turning it on builds the colliders one at a time over roughly 25 seconds (the progress is shown above the hand). This slow build is on purpose, since adding colliders in bulk mid-scene can crash VaM installs that are running the Performance Patch. This one-by-one build is what makes it safe without crashing. Scenes that are saved with the toggle on will rebuild the colliders on each scene load.
