Display the virtual hands

Tags: unreal

LastBlow 2015-07-29 00:48:36 UTC #1

Got milk?... Take that back!
Please, what would be the best way to display the virtual hands by using just the API but no widgets in Unity or Unreal?

Joe_Ward 2015-07-29 04:52:51 UTC #2

Both the Unity Core Assets and the Unreal plugin include graphic hand assets. The Unity assets also include a mode where the hand images are rendered in 3D space. Are you saying you don't want to use those?

LastBlow 2015-07-29 07:32:48 UTC #3

Thank you for your quick reply! Yes, I know about the plugins but would like to ask what is be the best way to display simple, skeletal hands in 3D outside of Unity or Unreal, please? I have a Leap mount on Oculus.

Joe_Ward 2015-07-29 16:15:37 UTC #4

"Best" really depends on your priorities. The options run from drawing a dot at each position provided by The API to animating a rigged hand mesh.

LastBlow 2015-07-29 16:51:33 UTC #5

Rigged hand mesh, please. So, do I need to go dot by dot and line by line or is there something already in the API that I could use? If not as of now, it would be definitely useful to eventually have a primitive like this in the API and not only as a Unity or Unreal plug-ins.Thank you!

Joe_Ward 2015-07-29 18:48:16 UTC #6

The API provides positions and orientations for finger bones, an arm bone, and the hand, itself. You can use these to manipulate the bones in a rigged mesh, but the API doesn't provide such a mesh.

Note that we also provide a JavaScript rigged hand for use with Three.js (which I overlooked earlier).