Oculus Touch quick start guide - plus free skinned hand models
Hey, so you just got Touch? Fantastic. I thought I'd make a quick list of points to help you get going with Unity integration. This might be obvious stuff to others but I thought with the number of additional devs receiving Touch kits and Oculus continuing to hand them out this might benefit some. And Cyber [or anyone else], please correct me if I'm wrong about the following stuff:
1.First up, grab the latest Oculus Unity Utilities and Touch integration. This stuff is still evolving so to avoid errors and snags, make sure you're up to date. See the ReadMe file in the OvrTouch folder for these points and more info.
2.In your project, once the Touch sample package is imported, bring in the Touch prefabs and connect up the right and left hand anchors. You can find the prefabs in the OvrTouch/Content/Hands/ folder. Select the prefabs one at a time and drag the appropriate HandAnchor transform to the Touch Anchor field on the prefab.
3. To prevent odd movement glitches and update issues, it's recommended that you parent the hand prefabs into the PlayerController hierarchy, preferably under the camera coordinate space. Under the TrackingSpace node seems to work well for me.
4. Set: Edit->Project Settings->Time->Fixed Timestep = 0.01111111 to reduce judder and hand tracking latency.
5. Don't forget to try the sample scenes in the OvrTouch/Content folder. OvrTouchDemo and TapeMeasure in particular for a taste of the haptics capability.
6. Now to the fun stuff. I think Oculus prefer that we not use the blue sample hands in projects we distribute or show to others. I skinned up a pair of replacement hands you're welcome to use if you like. They're a bit higher resolution than the samples [and let's face it they're a pair of white male hands which may not suit you or your project!] but you can at least get going with them if you want to move away from the blue ones. They look like this:
Get them from my dropbox here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v71kr0p5ooaxvhz/HumanHands.zip?dl=0
In the zip file you should find the following items:
7. Finally you'll want to grab things in your own project huh. Items you wish to interact with need to be rigidBody physics objects which means you'll want to setup the usual components required for that. This may also mean you need to set up colliders etc so your objects don't fall through the floor when you put them down [or throw them for fun]. Simply add the supplied Grabbable.cs script [OvrTouch/Script/Hands/] to your object and you should be good to go.
That should get you up and running. If anyone else has useful info to share please do, the more the merrier.
-julian
1.First up, grab the latest Oculus Unity Utilities and Touch integration. This stuff is still evolving so to avoid errors and snags, make sure you're up to date. See the ReadMe file in the OvrTouch folder for these points and more info.
2.In your project, once the Touch sample package is imported, bring in the Touch prefabs and connect up the right and left hand anchors. You can find the prefabs in the OvrTouch/Content/Hands/ folder. Select the prefabs one at a time and drag the appropriate HandAnchor transform to the Touch Anchor field on the prefab.
3. To prevent odd movement glitches and update issues, it's recommended that you parent the hand prefabs into the PlayerController hierarchy, preferably under the camera coordinate space. Under the TrackingSpace node seems to work well for me.
4. Set: Edit->Project Settings->Time->Fixed Timestep = 0.01111111 to reduce judder and hand tracking latency.
5. Don't forget to try the sample scenes in the OvrTouch/Content folder. OvrTouchDemo and TapeMeasure in particular for a taste of the haptics capability.
6. Now to the fun stuff. I think Oculus prefer that we not use the blue sample hands in projects we distribute or show to others. I skinned up a pair of replacement hands you're welcome to use if you like. They're a bit higher resolution than the samples [and let's face it they're a pair of white male hands which may not suit you or your project!] but you can at least get going with them if you want to move away from the blue ones. They look like this:
Get them from my dropbox here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v71kr0p5ooaxvhz/HumanHands.zip?dl=0
In the zip file you should find the following items:
- r_hand_skeletal.fbx <-- replace the identical item in your OvrTouch/Content/Hands/Models/ folder with this
- l_hand_skeletal.fbx <-- replace the identical item in your OvrTouch/Content/Hands/Models/ folder with this
- humanHand_3D_COLOR.jpg <-- put this wherever you prefer to keep textures
- humanHand_3D_NRM.jpg <-- put this wherever you prefer to keep textures
- humanHandSkin.mat <-- put this wherever you prefer to keep materials
7. Finally you'll want to grab things in your own project huh. Items you wish to interact with need to be rigidBody physics objects which means you'll want to setup the usual components required for that. This may also mean you need to set up colliders etc so your objects don't fall through the floor when you put them down [or throw them for fun]. Simply add the supplied Grabbable.cs script [OvrTouch/Script/Hands/] to your object and you should be good to go.
That should get you up and running. If anyone else has useful info to share please do, the more the merrier.
-julian