Attach skeletal mesh(weapon) to another sk. mesh(player)

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Hello, I know, that this types of question are in a lot of places, but I didn’t find the proper solution for my problem. You see, I have a weapon(skeletal mesh) and a character. I’ve already added a socket to character skeleton and it looks all ok, when just playing animations. But whatever I tried “Attach a Component to Actor” or other things with attaching, when I hit “Play”, the weapon is no there at all or is just a static thing, that is raised above the ground. And I know that I’m a great noob, so can you advice me the way to the end of the tunnel? :slight_smile:
This is how character looks with weapon(socket):

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This is the character blueprint and how character looks without a weapon( terrifying isn’t it ? ):

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Hello Psychoman,

You actually have to spawn the actor (in this case a weapon) to the level first before it is able to Attach Actor to Component.
What I do to display the swords in this [MMORPG WIP][1] of mine is this:

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SetWeapons gets called on EventBeginPlay and weapon_r is the name of my socket. The Spawn Transform can be anything because as soon as the EventBeginPlay fires your actor (in my case a sword) will be attached to the socket.

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Yep, that worked, thx. Sry for another stupid question, but how you get spawn transform?

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You’re welcome. I simply created a variable, gave it the transform type and left all the default values. You can also drag off of the Spawn Transform input on the SpawnActor node and promote to variable.

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Ok, thx again.

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Anytime mate :slight_smile:

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would you guys be able to help me figure out how to get a two people player 1 and payer 2 skeletal meshes to spawn in a car skeletal mesh like Mario kart double dash!! i cant find proper documentation a anywhere on this matter!!
I no it has something to do with sockets but it gets very confusing at first!! i need help from the masters!!!

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would you guys be able to help me figure out how to get a two people player 1 and payer 2 skeletal meshes to spawn in a car skeletal mesh like Mario kart double dash!! i cant find proper documentation a anywhere on this matter!!
I no it has something to do with sockets but it gets very confusing at first!! i need help from the masters!!!