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Constrain grabbable object motion in Unity
I want to open a window by grabbing it and pulling open up and down. How can I constrain the movement of the window using the Oculus's Unity package?
If you're using OVRGrabbable instead of just interacting with a rigidbody then I think the classic workaround is to grab an invisible object that then drives the movement of your window. It's the technique described in this video for a door but a window would be the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cJ_uq1m-dg&t=129s
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The constrain isn't really anything to do with The Oculus SDK, it's a Unity thing. If your window is a physics object with a rigidbody you can constrain the X, Y, Z movement on that component by using the Freeze Position tick boxes: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-Rigidbody.html (you'll probably also want to freeze rotations)
Thanks for the response. I tried constraining the movement in that way but the OVR Grabbable script seems to override it.
If you're using OVRGrabbable instead of just interacting with a rigidbody then I think the classic workaround is to grab an invisible object that then drives the movement of your window. It's the technique described in this video for a door but a window would be the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cJ_uq1m-dg&t=129s
