Bow String Animation

[Poet_11 (William K)]

@jaran;617584

What’s the proper way to make a skeletal mesh bow and arrow string attach to the characters hand when he pulls the bow back?

I can attach the bow to the left hand but struggling to figure what systems to use to pull the string back with the characters draw animation and have the string attached to his hand.

Should be pretty simple, In general when a bow string is pulled it is tight V shape, for that you can setup a two bone rig with stretchy bones. You can try mixing in Spline Ik for that extra control.

if you want to keep it really simple, An FK setup with 3 bone joints would work, after all it would be the hand ik handling everyting in your animation and not the bow string.

Goodluck