How would I detect when i swing my fist down

[mellow apex]

I'm trying to make something that activates when I have my fist above my head and then I swing it down to my side then I open my hand

[cyan orbit]

You can get the velocity of your hand which ever hand it is and use vector get magnitude then use a greater than and thats it

[mellow apex]

yeah no

it has to be what i said

start above head and go down to side

what you said is just moving your hand

i know it has something to do with getting y axis of vectors, but im not the greatest at vectors. I have a way that would work, but it would do it anywhere below the certain y axis, but not just down to my side

[finite zealot]

Iron Mam 🥱

[mellow apex]

not exactly

yes the positon

[finite zealot]

ig u can have a position & check if hand distance is less than radius, then set a bool true. Then start checking the swing down stuff, if swing down stuff is true or a timer completes without swing stuff being true, then set bool false

then for things im certain about:

but dot the normalized velocity with (0, -1, 0) (rotate it by body rotation if want relative to body instead just the down for the entire world)

then check the result is >= cos(cone of tolerance to determine if "down" enough (try 10, which means it can have 5 degrees of wiggle room. Generaly just increase/decrease as u go))

the get the magnitude of velocity, check if greater than a meters per sec. If the hand has to be fast, which if it dose, that can pretty much determine if the hand was "swung" as u say (swing)

the check hand position if its distance is less than the radius to a position to your (using vector3 transform to create the offset)

[mellow apex]

i want it to start from top

im swinging down

[finite zealot]

ah, i just like trying to geuss mechanics when ppl try be secretive for some reason

[finite zealot]

ig u can have a position & check if hand distance is less than radius, then set a bool true. Then start checking the swing down stuff, if swing down stuff is true or a timer completes without swing stuff being true, then set bool false

anyways i gtg back work now

combined with original msg

[mellow apex]

in

"but dot the normalized velocity with (0, -1, 0) (rotate it by body rotation if want relative to body instead just the down for the entire world)"

did you mean hand position or nah

im a little slow

[finite zealot]

hand velocity

[mellow apex]

is thaat whats detecting if my hand is below my waist?

or...

[finite zealot]

vector dot is projection, works best with directional similarity. Tho u can turn it into positional, which is what distance is made from/uses

[mellow apex]

so this is correct so far

[finite zealot]

for detecting if the movement of the hand is down

[finite zealot]

not literal 10, cosine(10)

[mellow apex]

ohhhh

[finite zealot]

should leave 5 degrees of wiggle room all around the world down (0, -1, 0)

[mellow apex]

dont believe 10 is working

[finite zealot]

but i would run a substitle for true & false so u can fine tune the value to see just how far yhe movement has to be down

[finite zealot]

then its too strict, increase to like 30

[finite zealot]

do that & keep adjusting it

working so ye, brb in a break or sumn. Have one at like 17 min

[mellow apex]

its doing it even not below waist

[finite zealot]

bc its downwards movement

regardless of where you are, or hand rotation, etc

its a single condition, when combined with others, that gets it more into what ur looking for

move your hand in a 45 degree angle

the cos(30) shouldnt trigger unless your perception of 45 degrees is bad

move hand under or equal to a 30 degree line, then it should be true

nope, greater or equal

1 = vectors are facing the same
0 = vectors are facing 90 degrees apart
-1 = vectors are facing different

you want downwards alignment
velocity is where your hand us going

this is checking if where your hand is within 30 degrees of alignment with the downwards

[mellow apex]

me jumping triggers it bro

[finite zealot]

it dont matter the rotation

if you put up (0, 1, 0), then it would be 30 degrees in alignment with up. It would be the same. 1 = same, etc

[finite zealot]

its a SINGLE condition

did u see me say that specific condition will solve the entire issue? No, thats why i listed more conditions bc they would be COMBINED to get what your looking for

that means its working bc when jumping your falling, so it detects downwards movement

[mellow apex]

it activated as soon as i jumped which has no downward motion

[mellow apex]

also

i have no clue how to understand anythinjg your saying, i am bottom tier at vectors

have no clue about anything

[finite zealot]

if moving down, like (0, -1, 0), & ur dotting (0, -1, 0). They're the same, value of 1

did u put do in greater than A, & cosine in greater than B

[finite zealot]

then idk y it triggers on jump. Unless your on screen and the hand animation initially goes down or something

[mellow apex]

yh i am, but explain it in dumb terms to make it only below waist

[finite zealot]

i can always just send screen shot when get home in 3 hours

but idk how u expect to to be for screen if the hand should open at the end

[mellow apex]

i have a vr

i make circuits on screen unless i need to be on vr

[finite zealot]

ye, so y aren't u testing it on that instead if this can mostly, intuitively be done in vr rather screen

[mellow apex]

it should still be able to be done on screen

[finite zealot]

on screen, most intuitive i would think is detecting if your hands are infront, then then you look up, then fast down

so i would use "If Local Is VR" or whatever it is to make intuitive edits for screen & vr