Need Help with Rigged Hand Type to Show my Own Hand Model in Game

[niraj_gaming]

Hello Devs,

First of all "HI" from me to all genius developers here. I would like to make a request. I am reading this page https://developer.leapmotion.com/documentation/Languages/CSharpandUnity/Guides/Leap_Motion_Starter_Kit_Manual.html

I want to show my own created rigged hand model with the help og RiggedHandModel Type and i am following the steps as i highlighted with green marker(see the image).

But something is not going good, i am getting confused little bit with the process. Please any body can make a video on how to follow the above steps. Just a small tutorial. I am sure that i will get help from here. Please, i am waiting for your kind help.

Please Leap Team - help me with How to Video.

Thanks and Regards
Niraj Vishwakarma

[niraj_gaming]

Please , Can anyone help me in this regard. Please developers help me.

[Mauriciosev]

Im in the same predicament, did you find some answer elsewhere?

[Mauriciosev]

I was able to duplicate the skeletal structure and conditions (scripts) of the realistic rigged hands that came with the "Leap Motion Skeletal Assets (beta)" in the unity asset store, and it moves the fingers! but the orientation is all wrong. I`ve follow the advice concern the orientations but is still not working.

I`ve seen many aps, including games that uses custom hands. Enlighten us please. Is a very important topic that is been ignored as far I can tell by serching.

Any advice/tutorial would be appreciated...some one?

The oficial tutorial that is mentioned in the beginning of this topic is outdated I think, and not made for the new rigged assets.

This is a screen of what I have so far....this is the front view....not up.

Thanks

[niraj_gaming]

Hello Mauriciosev,

Leap Motion has Just released new Asset in Unity Asset store that will help you attain well directed Rigged hands in Unity with the help of Leap Motion skeleton tracking new beta version. Check the free asset at https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/17770

I hope it will sort out the problem.

Thanks

[niraj_gaming]

Check the free asset at https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/17770

Thanks and Regards
Niraj Vishwakarma

[Mauriciosev]

Actually, Ive been working with these very assets. And Icant find any solid reference with comented code or/and step by step example pipeline for make my rigged hands work as the realistic rigged hands example of the package.

Have you achieve this with the assets you mention?

[niraj_gaming]

No i am yet to use this asset. After testing with it i can say something.

[DanPeterson]

@niraj_gaming -- I'm glad you found the Unity asset, and I wanted to share a few other pointers that should be helpful for development and the broader concepts related to getting up and running with a rigged hand:

There is the v2 getting started guide itself: https://developer.leapmotion.com/getting-started/unity

In addition, we have a variety of examples available using v2 tracking that use onscreen hands, like cube-wave:
https://developer.leapmotion.com/gallery/cube-wave (with it's source code available here: https://github.com/leapmotion-examples/CubeWave )

There are also other examples (with code available) in the gallery which have rigged hands: https://developer.leapmotion.com/gallery -- many of which are Unity examples.

Otherwise, there have been a few blogposts recently about rigging hands and the underlying bone API:

https://www.leapmotion.com/blog/skeletal-tracking-101-getting-started-with-the-bone-api-and-rigged-hands/

https://www.leapmotion.com/blog/this-game-is-rigged-6-design-challenges-for-onscreen-hands/

[niraj_gaming]

@DanPeterson,

Thank you very much for helping me with these helpful references. I will surely check them out as there a plan to get started with leap motion in full mode. For Mauriciosev i think it will be a good path to follow to get things done in agile manner.

Thanks and Regards
Niraj Vishwakarma

[matthewtytel]

Hey @Mauriciosev, I'm the dev that wrote the Unity assets. I'm currently working on more rigged hands and an easier way to set up custom rigged hands but it might be a ways off and you probably don't want to wait for that so let me see if I can help.

I think the first step is to make sure the model's default rotations are matched up to our Bone API basis. If you zero out all the rotation of the hand it should point forward in the positive Z and the palm should face down in the negative Y direction. From the picture you sent, it looks like this may not be the case.

If you do the same for each finger, totally zero out the rotation of each joint (including all parents). The finger should point forward in the positive Z direction and the pads should face down in the negative Y direction. The same is true for the thumb, but note that it might be a little inside the palm when you do this.

You can zero out the rotations of the rigged hand shipped with the Unity assets as a reference to see if you model is setup correctly.

Once your hand model has the right default rotations it will be easier to rig up, but if you run into more issues (I definitely did) or if you're not able to change the default rotations of your hand model let me know and I'll try to help.

[Mauriciosev]

@matthewtytel, Thanks...a lot!! following your instructions I understood the rules better and made me able to correct the orientation of each finger and the hands itself. The result are way better.

Need a little tweaks but is almost there.

Thanks again for the fast and detailed response. Very nice support

[matthewtytel]

Great! I'll definitely try to make this more documented in the future.
I'd like to see how the hand looks when it's done

[ge5]

I am trying to use my LeapMotion in Three.js but trying to substitute the rigged hands included in the leapjs plugin/riggedhand/ with my own model exported from blender. After much trial + tribulation in Unity I am almost there, but in Three.js the bone orientations after exporting from three.js are incorrect/and I have tried many, many variations...
Does anyone have any experience with this? the Blender coordinates are Z-up but I tried as Mathew Tytel suggested above to no avail--this is quite frustrating/any advice would be APPRECIATED! (tried the many various models from both the Unity + Leapjs examples)---I would like to understand how the 'original' in the plugins/rigged hands were exported, but there is no ability to "import" to three.js to examine...Thanks.

[rmen]

https://developer.leapmotion.com/documentation/Languages/CSharpandUnity/Guides/Leap_Motion_Starter_Kit_Manual.html

Hey! Could you please help me rig up a hand model?
I've been trying to make all its characteristics, components etc. the same as the PepperLightFullLeftHand. One problem that may be that for the models provided e.g. PepperLightFullLeftHand there are separate objects for left and right whereas mine come linked and therefore for the overall object (in my example called female_hand_rigged and in the provided model PepperFullLeftHand) Elements 0-4 and palm and fore arm are specific only for one of the hands however I think that then at least one of the hands should be trackable.

You may notice there is RIG_BASE_BOTH - the original layout of this file was with the hands together:

Where RIG_BASE_BOTH = circle2transform1joint27 - this was the parent of both hands but I copied it out into separate objects for left and right with no children trying to make it as similar to the provided model as possible because with the original set out the best I could do was this:

Having changed it to two hands it looks better (I think?) but twisted inside out

I thought it might be the scale etc. but tried changing many variables with little difference. Please help me!

[spkim921]

What 3D modeling program have you used? Are you using blender?