Description

EnviroSense: Immersive Hand IK was created as a modular asset that could be added to a humanoid character that would provide the ability to interact with the gameplay environment in a more dynamic and immersive manner. Whilst procedural world interaction is the aim, the same system can be used to provide simple interactions with various gameplay objects, e.g. switches and levers, in the absence of dedicated animations. 

EnviroSense is not a replacement for an animation driven IK enhanced specific action dedicated interaction system but provides an accessible multipurpose modular solution to procedural and targeted sensing of the gameplay environmental objects delivered through procedural IK and hand animations.

Hand placement can be fully procedural or driven by particular targets that can be controlled by end-user code. Object sensing is highly customizable: IK engagement times; hand specificity; single or both hands; position and rotational offsets; selected hand animations (samples included); smoothing of movements; hand movement types; and variable chance of interaction to reduce predictability)

A demo Map with demo objects and interactable objects is included for illustration purposes.

****IMPORTANT**** The IK makes use of animation blueprint post-processing and twist bones. This is dependent on the quality of the character model used and cannot be corrected by the asset. Most typically, the absence of good twist bone weighting will result in twisting of the mesh, particularly at the wrist (see extreme example in the documentation). ****IMPORTANT**** 

The asset has been tested with default UE5 mannequins and a metahuman.

Please check out the trailers, demos and documentation and feel free to visit the discord to discuss any concerns:

Video Trailer: https://youtu.be/CAmM49ctnwg

Migration Tutorial: https://youtu.be/UMvOcDMJZN4?list=PLezhcUrg6HXZbi6LJDsIV3zJZWfYHWVYe

Documentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PM4D_ftMSLAuLEujUGm_JWHM9DsWYPI2 

Third Person Demo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bc-CiIJiTQjdap5MnBZY_IOdEA1jU-1I 

First Person Full Body Aware Demo (not included): https://drive.google.com/file/d/19ftrVhRXf2h7pimlyB4EzvCMQlhNF62g

(Note this first-person controller is not included as this demo was made with a modified version of the Advanced locomotion Component v2.3 and is included to show the utility of the EnviroSense asset only).

Discord for Support, feedback and community: https://discord.gg/Pf5Qk6cYb8

Website with contact form (e.g. if discord expired): https://dankestthings.wordpress.com/

Technical Details

Number of:

Blueprints: 21

Animation Blueprints: 3

Static Meshes: 23

Animations: 7

Materials: 7

Textures: 12

All core assets created for the asset.

Input: N/A, but demo map is setup for keyboard and mouse.

Network Replicated: (No) Although animations per se are replicated, so generic object sensing is.

Supported Development Platforms:

Windows

Documentation:

Documentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PM4D_ftMSLAuLEujUGm_JWHM9DsWYPI2 

Discord: https://discord.gg/bv4AefuE

Important/Additional Notes:

The IK makes use of animation blueprint post-processing and twist bones. This is dependent on the quality of the character model used and cannot be corrected by the asset. Most typically, the absence of good twist bone weighting will result in twisting of the mesh, particularly at the wrist (see extreme example in the documentation).

Supported Engine Versions

5.3