Change Root Location of Skeletal Mesh & Aligning Weapons

Hey there @anonymous_user_3cf2ac1c! It’s rare that I’m summoned directly! So if I remember correctly you’re just welding them directly to the player’s hand socket right? So basically there’s always a number of options you have for this. I’ll start with the best option which may not be viable depending on how far you are into production.

  1. Best: Every gun is set up the same, ie same rotations, locations, and rooted directly on their primary handle and you use snap to target. This means that every single time your start preparing a new gun, all you have to do is handle your other hand’s positioning. This isn’t easy if all your assets are external.
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  2. You could manually set a local offset when you equip the gun, once it’s fine you could put this in with your gun’s stats and when it’s equipped you can always apply that offset. That’s going to be a tedious process but you don’t have to work with the source objects much.

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