Possible to have customized hands with no skinning/rigging, replacing the robot hand in VR template?

[vr_marco]

@anonymous_user_690e5b4a

Thanks for the solution, especially the socket one, I’ll keep this in mind !
Unfortunately, I’m not looking for mechanical hands, but more like space gloves, so I can’t avoid skinning (which I can more or less manage with some automatic tools I suppose). The problem is more about how to build a whole skeleton system (with mesh/physics/pre-built animations) using UE4 system, I didn’t find much free nor paid tutorials about the subject :c

If you create a new hand skeletal mesh with the exact bone structure/names as the original one in the VR template (open the MannequinHand_Right_Skeleton and have a look at how it is organized), you can import it and retarget all the animations to it. Basically you can swap it in place of the standard robotic hand and it will work.