Collision to Grabbed right actor with grabbed left actor

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@vr_marco

@Jack100387 Do you mean like when you are holding two swords and you want them to clink one against the other?

This said, what you can still do is use Overlap Events to detected when the object you are holding in one hand gets in contact with the object you are holding in the other. At that point you can produce a sound (like the swords clinking) or play an haptic feedback on the controllers like it is done in the standard VR Template.

Or you can be creative with Skeletal Meshes and PhAT like in here:

I hope this makes sense.

You can grip things with physics constraints instead of direct parenting… Unlike Unity which has a fixed update physics thread we can’t really do reliable direct velocity control for held objects so that is the best method.

The in engine Physics Handle does just this and multiple people are using it in VR to “physically” hold objects, in the back end it is a physx kinematic actor with a constraint to the held object, then it just sets the kinematic actors location each tick to where you want it to move the object.

I’ll also note that physics based grips are a common feature in many VR games now and that there are multiple ways to avoid disassociation with limbs. Some of the MOST played VR games make use of physically based gripping.