Question on animating

[crisosphinx]

Ah, no my character is holding a hammer in his hand, its not like a "hammer arm" sort of thing. Sorry, should have explained that better! Although I think you helped me there anyway, I can just make the hand and hammer a single joint, so the wrist will move the hand and weapon together. The weapon never needs to move independently of the hand so I guess that will work. Maybe an easier way would be to just make it a seperate entity and attach it to his hand in the model editor?

Thanks for the input, I'll post a video when I get this guy moving!

The model editor will not allow you to attach a weapon to his hand. All monsters have the weapon (hands or sword) attached in Maya and exported. The game does not support item snapping/ linking.

I had to learn the hard way.

In the Intelligencer (I don't know if you've seen the animations yet or not), the knife was attached and combined as an object in with the intelliegencer. The joints met up with the hand+knife so I could rotate the hand+knife and animate like so.

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