[Add-On] - Pickup - Hold - Throw Heavy Objects

[icuruok]

Invector Pick Up & Throw Heavy Object addon



v 1.0 - icuruok



* The goal of this addon was to create a pickup and throw system that can emulate the player lifting up

a heavy object and allowing the player to then hold the heavy object while walking/moving and then continue to allow the player to then throw the object.







Setup *

-- After installing the unitypackage or placing the extracted zip to your project --



1# Place the "PickUp" prefab object as a CHILD object of the game object you wish to have the character pickup/hold/throw

*MAKE SURE PickUp collider tag is set to "PickUp"

You can also create custom a mesh/capsule/sphere collider just make sure it has the tag "PickUp" and set its trigger to enabled on its collider





2# Place the "PickUpThrow.cs" script on your main invector third person player, Set the "myHands" to your right/left hand.





3# Use one of the updated animator controllers from the "PickUpThrow/Anim/Controllers" folder as your characters new animator controller.



Or you can simply open the controller in animator tab window and copy the custom action then add it to your own controller animator.





DONE# Go up to your target pickup object in game and press E to pickup and hold, Then to throw press E again.


**Download

PickUpThrow.zip

PickUpThrow.unitypackage



*******Inc Info*****


The example script provided is very crude and is buggy but it does work for showcasing the example, The invector

players will be able to pickup/hold/throw heavy objects.



The animations are fully functional and fluid with the invector system.



The script could use updating and fixing and the script will be bugy when used on the melee or shooter controllers

as its not scripted to block out blocking/attacking/jumping animations which will break the animation of the pickupthrow action





So give you expand upon the provided example to detect such inputs and block them out the example would work much better,

I may add this into a updated version later with a better fixed positioning of held object ect ++

[axbaby123]

Needs a bit of work like you said.
Had trouble figuring out "MyHands", made an empty game object inside on my character's Spine as MyHands and that works a little bit.
Could not throw, could not drop.

I am looking for a script like yours to bend over, trigger particles, inspect, trigger short timeline and then absorb picked up item.
This helped me understand me learning a litlle better about the Animator process when I played around with your asset.
Looking forward to your final product and other new toys you create.

Thanks

[icuruok]

May 3, 2022 15:28:17 GMT axbaby123 said:

Needs a bit of work like you said.
Had trouble figuring out "MyHands", made an empty game object inside on my character's Spine as MyHands and that works a little bit.
Could not throw, could not drop.

I am looking for a script like yours to bend over, trigger particles, inspect, trigger short timeline and then absorb picked up item.
This helped me understand me learning a litlle better about the Animator process when I played around with your asset.
Looking forward to your final product and other new toys you create.

Thanks

Thanks for the feedback and trying it out  and glad it helped you learn a few things about editing the animation system.

Well the myHands should be set as either your left/right armature bone hand object. This way the object you wish to pickup gets moved to your hand bone as a child object.

then pickup prefab collider as CHILD of any object you wish to pickup/hold/throw.

This should then allow the holding/throwing of the object to then work as well. 


As for your custom action sounds like you could use the melee example provided for opening chest. The opening of chest action already does over half of what you are looking for. So yeah you could find the script that controls the opening of a chest in animator. Then make a custom animator action and script much like how I did for this addon using altered chest open animations and scripting functions ;)

For creating/editing/altering animations you can use "umotion pro" to create/edit/alter the animations inside unity or export clips to fbx to alter outside unity and then import. For external model/animation editing I find Cinema4D is easiest to use over blender or maya but that's all personal preference I suppose.