Solved Any plugin to possess Atoms via triggers?

[Geraldo]

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for a plugin that allows me to possess Atoms in a scene via triggers. Embody unfortunately only allows you to use Passenger in Atoms that aren't Person Atoms (for example, a Sphere), and that's just not really what I'm looking for in a specific scene. Any ideas?
What I was able to come up was to manually align the Atom I wanted with the [CameraRig] and then ParentLink it (which is essentially what Possession does). However, this does not carry on if I reload the scene, and I have to configure it again everytime as it loses the parenting to the [CameraRig] upon scene load.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Clownmug]

It's not for possession but the plugin below could be used for your workaround. Instead of ParentLink you can use its "Lock" trigger to target and follow the [CameraRig]. This should be persistent with scene reloading as far as I know.

AlignHelper - Plugins + Scripts -

In scene creation, it is often necessary to align or offset the position of some atoms relative to others. This plugin helps to align atoms in a scene with other atoms or a point on the screen. How To Use: Load this plugin on the atoms that...

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[Geraldo]

It's not for possession but the plugin below could be used for your workaround. Instead of ParentLink you can use its "Lock" trigger to target and follow the [CameraRig]. This should be persistent with scene reloading as far as I know.

AlignHelper - Plugins + Scripts -

In scene creation, it is often necessary to align or offset the position of some atoms relative to others. This plugin helps to align atoms in a scene with other atoms or a point on the screen. How To Use: Load this plugin on the atoms that...

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Thanks! I'll take a look.

 

[atani]

What type of possession are you trying to do with non-person atoms that you need something else besides Passenger mode, if I may ask?

 

[Geraldo]

What type of possession are you trying to do with non-person atoms that you need something else besides Passenger mode, if I may ask?

I've been trying to create more "interactive" scenes for desktop, in the sense of a more traditional game in which you use WASD for movement to walk around and interact in a scene. While I can Possess a Person Atom and disable all the controls except the head to do so, all of my attempts so far resulted in not so good behavior. The body stumbles around, clips through objects and the floor, hits stuff along the scene, and honestly I don't need a whole Person body dragging behind while I explore the scene. So lately I've been attempting to possess an object, in this case a Sphere, which acts as the base for my "head" and I can use it to hook other objects onto it:

Floating hands

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So far it works great for what I'm trying to do but if I had the option to simply possess the sphere via a hotkey would be amazing.

 

[atani]

Perhaps Acid's older plugin Improved POV may work for you intention?

 

[Geraldo]

Perhaps Acid's older plugin Improved POV may work for you intention?

Unfortunately it also doesn't work in non-Person Atoms.

It's not for possession but the plugin below could be used for your workaround. Instead of ParentLink you can use its "Lock" trigger to target and follow the [CameraRig]. This should be persistent with scene reloading as far as I know.

AlignHelper - Plugins + Scripts -

In scene creation, it is often necessary to align or offset the position of some atoms relative to others. This plugin helps to align atoms in a scene with other atoms or a point on the screen. How To Use: Load this plugin on the atoms that...

hub.virtamate.com

Just tried this and the Lock option indeed is persistent with scene reloading, great!