Weapon Rigging Tutorial (Blender Tutorial)
In today's video I'll be showing you how to rig a weapon in Blender for your viewmodel animations/character animations. This is useful for when you want to prepare your rig for first person animations or even character animations in Blender. If you found this video helpful, please consider sharing it around and forward the helping hand.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:21 Creating an armature
0:51 Rule of thumb for rigging weapons
1:43 Setting up the pivot bone
2:22 Magazine Bone
3:27 Magazine Release
6:54 Trigger
8:07 Lever selector
8:50 Charging handle
10:33 Safety Lever
11:10 Side Folding Stock
13:02 Parenting the bones
13:35 Bonus tip
14:09 Mag rounds bone
14:50 Naming the bones
16:00 Assigning weights to vertex groups
19:35 Adding Child Of constraint to the mag
20:26 Reasons to use child of constraint
20:56 Outro
Music used in the video:
Gymnopedie No. 1 by Kevin MacLeod
OSRS tracks:
Forever.
Book of spells.
Adventure.
Newbie Melody.
MGS3 OST: Snake Eater (instrumental version)
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