Attaching to joints?

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Lordon (Posted 2004) [#1]

I want to make the character have a variety of weapons, the equipped one in his hand. is there a way to attach the weapon to his hand in-game? Im thinking there's a way to attach an entity to a "weapon-joint" which is made in the animator?

jhocking (Posted 2004) [#2]

First you assign a handle for the joint; use FindChild with the name of the joint you set in your animation tool. Then use EntityParent to attach the gun.

Lordon (Posted 2004) [#3]

ok, i name the hand i want the gun in "LH", then i assign a handle to the joint with: LH = FindChild(human,LH) the i parent it with: EntityParent weapon,LH so i run the animation and the weapon doesn't move... can u tell what im doing wrong?

jhocking (Posted 2004) [#4]

It should be LH = FindChild(human,"LH") Note the quotation marks.

Lordon (Posted 2004) [#5]

cool, it works now, but how do i move the weapon to that hand? i used: PositionEntity weapon,EntityX(LH),EntityY(LH),EntityZ(LH) but it didn't move the weapon to the hand, it moved it to another spot, did i do something wrong in the animator?(CFX)

jhocking (Posted 2004) [#6]

EntityX etc. default to local coordinates. To get global coordinates you need to write: EntityX(LH,True)

Lordon (Posted 2004) [#7]

sry i haven't responded, havent' had time to play around with it. seems to work now, thanks for yur help =)