# Adding arms & weapon to blank project ! **URL:** \ **Category:** Blueprint\ **Tags:** unreal-engine\ **Created:** [August 11, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/adding-arms-weapon-to-blank-project/9205 "2014-08-11T16:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_a6bc06f5](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_a6bc06f5](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_a6bc06f5)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/adding-arms-weapon-to-blank-project/9205/1 "2014-08-11T16:05:00Z")
Hello Friends ! i have done some animation for my game , with my arms and an M4A1 like idle & fire ! but i didn’t found any topic talking about adding the arms & weapons on a blank project ! i want to make it like in the shooter game demo , and in blueprint because i’m not on my top in the C++ Can you Give me he Help Plz 😕 ---
**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_759e5c3a](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_759e5c3a](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_759e5c3a)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/adding-arms-weapon-to-blank-project/9205/2 "2014-08-11T18:20:29Z")
If you ignore the code section at the beginning of the C++ Shooter tutorial, there is an Blueprint animation explanation at the bottom: > **[A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/a-new-community-hosted-unreal-engine-wiki/141494)** > > After over a year in maintenance mode, the official Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline. These resources now live on a new community-run Unreal Engine Community Wiki — https://unrealcommunity.wiki/! You will be able to find content from... You may want to look into that C++ tutorial as an idea for how you would add a weapon with Blueprints as well. Here is a video on adding a custom weapon to Shootergame (No code involved) as an example of how you would add your own to a new Character BP: > **[A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/a-new-community-hosted-unreal-engine-wiki/141494)** > > After over a year in maintenance mode, the official Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline. These resources now live on a new community-run Unreal Engine Community Wiki — https://unrealcommunity.wiki/! You will be able to find content from... Also, there is already a discussion about custom weapons going on in thread: [[REQUEST] FPS Weapon System in Blueprints - Programming & Scripting - Epic Developer Community Forums](https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?19895-REQUEST-FPS-Weapon-System-in-Blueprints&highlight=custom+weapon) Let me know if any of helps or if you have any specific questions. ---
**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_a6bc06f5](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_a6bc06f5](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_a6bc06f5)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/adding-arms-weapon-to-blank-project/9205/3 "2014-08-11T20:47:53Z")
Hello and thanks for the quick replay 😃 ! i’m blocked on one step , if please you can provide me the solution : i wanna to use a variable that i have created in my character BP , in the Animation BP ! and please handle me to some goods topics that talk about the animation , for a beginner like me 😛 thanks ---
**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_759e5c3a](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_759e5c3a](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_759e5c3a)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/adding-arms-weapon-to-blank-project/9205/4 "2014-08-11T22:33:18Z")
Make a “Try Get Pawn Owner” node, then you can drag from that “Return Value” and “Cast To” your BP that is your character. Here is an example where I get “Is Using” from a “MyCharacter” blueprint ![AnimGetPawnOwner.jpg](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/9/1980494d5b2e0b311aded2f63826bce541544f2a.jpeg) I don’t have a nice selection of tutorials off hand for that, but here are the basics: > **[Animation Blueprints](https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/en-US/animation-blueprints-in-unreal-engine/)** > > Animation Blueprints are visual scripts that are used for the creation and control of complex animation behaviors.