How to make character pickup a simple object (with animation)

[discofever]

I'm trying to make this very simple (yet insanely complex using UCC) 'thing'.
Making this chill survival game where the character needs to gather ressources from the forest.

I want to be able to pickup things from the ground, from trees, etc.

First i want to pickup this branch on the ground.
I want to see the hand go and grab the object (i have some animation for that).

I thought i could do an Interaction with FinalIK and posing the Hand. It 'kinda' works; i can reach the object by hand but then ... nothing; it's not an 'Item'

I saw that there was this other "Pickup" ability; but this is only for 'equipable' Items right ? I still want to see the hand at least reach the branch; then i can 'swap' the item on the hand or something.

How would you go about it ?

https://imgur.com/a/JtIP6K2

 

[Justin]

This will require a new ability if you want the character to grab the item at runtime with IK. The pickup ability exists but it plays a static animation without any IK. You could model your ability off of the pickup ability, and interface with FinalIK within that ability.