[OVR] Forcing a grabbed object to be dropped

I'm trying to make a scene transition where the player would grab an object and that would trigger the game to begin loading a different scene. The problem is that i'd ideally want to make that object disappear before the scene transitions and i'm scared that letting the player keep holding the object through the scene transition would introduce some weird interaction with the grabber script or something. An easy solution to this would seem to be to force the object to be dropped before the transition, but just calling the GrabEnd() function of the Grabbable has already shot me in the foot in previous attempts of something similar.

How would i force the player to drop the object without breaking something in the scripts?

 

This is completely unanswerable because nobody here knows how you shot yourself in the foot.

Use source control, make changes you want, test them, if your foot develops a hole, revert them, or else aim the gun away from your toes.

 

Depends on your implementation?

We don't know what "GrabEnd" or "Grabbale" is. Where did you get this code? Did you write it yourself? If so wouldn't you know the best approach? If not, or you don't know, maybe share the code here to give us an idea of your implementation?

 

I'm sorry, i'm using the Oculus Integration packet thats free on the asset store, i thought thats what everyone who works with OVR is using.

 

Oh hi, a bit late but I ran into the same problem and thought to answer for prosperity.

Go into OVRGrabbable and make m_grabbedBy public

Then add this script to the grabbable object. I made it so that you turn off OVRGrabbable. I don't really know if it's needed, but it was an extra precaution just in case there was any weird case in the middle where the object could be 'regrabbed'.

public class Destroy : MonoBehaviour

{

    private OVRGrabber myGrabber;

    public void destroyThis()

    {

        //this turns off the OVRGrabbable script

        this.GetComponent<OVRGrabbable>().enabled = false;

        //this gets the hand that's grabbing it

        myGrabber = this.GetComponent<OVRGrabbable>().m_grabbedBy;

        //use ForceRelease method in the OVRGrabber to release object

        myGrabber.ForceRelease(this.gameObject.GetComponent<OVRGrabbable>());

        //destroy object

        Destroy(this.gameObject);

    }

}

You can't just destroy the object I've found, or unity will get very mad at you and throw you errors b/c the script keeps trying to parent the grabbed object (which is null) to the grabber.

Then just call this method from the scene transition script, probably through something like

YourGameObject.GetComponent<Destroy>().destroyThis();