VIVE Question | Stick an oject to another in VR? Or a holster technique?

Hi,

Newb question here. Can anyone tell me how I would "stick" an object to another. Or create a holster?

Example: I would like to have my VR player be able to holster or "stick" their weapon/ammo/health-pack to their in-game character. And be able to take it off/put it back onto their character.

Creating a place for the object to live/rest is simple enough with a Null object on the Camera Rig. Where I am stumped is how to make, say, a gun, stick to the players hip and or holster and be able to be retrieved at will.

I am using VR Weapon Interactor to handle the guns, VRTK (Tool Kit) and a few other assets for AI etc. They all work well together and everything jives. I just cant for the life of me figure out where I can find a script or how to code one that would allow the player to stick an object to another and retrieve it at will.

I have been through every single VRTK script and i can't see anything that relates to what i am looking for. I even experimented with using the container/drawer scripts to no avail.

I am looking to implement a setup similar to the game "RAW DATA" . It has the kind of what I am looking to do.

Any advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated. I might be missing something obvious, so bare with me here.

Thank you in advance.

 

Hi Nick,

Thanks for your reply. That is sort of what I am trying to do. Where the ambiguity lies is in how to make said object actually stay in that position or be able to be removed from it via code.

Also supposing the gun for example was parented in the hierarchy, this may work initially but if there are various weapons im not sure that would work. I may well be mistaken.

The VRTK scrips have many different options pertaining to interacting with objects ie. pick up drop etc.. As well the VR Weapon Interactor has built into it the ability to pick up the gun object. But no inherit way to stick an object to another.

What i am looking for is some sort of script/method that would say, "Once this collider on this object (movable) touches the collider on this object (static object or "holster"), stay in this position here. Otherwise if moved away by the player/controller, release it.

 

Okay, I got it working now. Thanks for your advice.