Best Practice Weapon looking to center of screen / where and how to place and act the weapon actor?

Development Character & Animation
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Hello

I have a question. What’s the best practice to present a weapon that is always pointing to the center of the screen.
Where do i have to place the weapon? Simply attach to a hand socket or should it be present in my First Person Character Blueprint?

I already tried to make a Two Bone ik whith the “head” as effector bone space.
I also tried to place the weapon Acotr in the Character blueprint and get the location for the effector there, but it didn’t work.

My target is:

  • Weapon should point always straight forward to the middle of the screen, not matter if the character is moving to left or right etc.

  • In my weapon blueprint i have a Camera. I want to change from 3d person cam (present in Character Blueprint) to ironsight (attached to the Weapon Actor in WeaponBP)

looking forward for your ideas and a big thank you

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When it comes to spawning weapons, I’ve always preferred the method EvilEyedGames displays in his third person cover shooter tutorial. His tutorial will give you exactly what you’re looking for. *OLD* UE4 Third Person Cover Shooter Tutorial - 1 Setting the Project Up *OLD* - YouTube

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Hi Slavical!

I will now have a look there. Thank you very much!