Character weapon animation questions?

[Astaraa]

@BlazeCloudGames

if i wanted to use both hands on the handle

You still add the weapon to one socket. The other hand is just positioned as if grabbing it.

@BlazeCloudGames

is it possible to add the weapon into animations

If you have a weapon bone, you can animate that. If you wanted to be able to affect the rotation for example in animation, without affecting the hand.

@BlazeCloudGames

can I add Niagara effects into my animations? lets say, i have my character posing with his hand out, is it possible to have the weapon form in his hand from particles from a Niagara effect and animate it so it looks like its appearing in his hand through an animation?

You can add lots of things into animation Notifies, such as effects or sounds. You can combine that with Curves or MetaCurves that tell a weapon to appear.

Handy trick to hide weapons during actions (MetaCurves) | Community tutorial

So maybe you attach a weapon, an equip animation plays w/ a curve hiding it (scales it to 0), then an effect notify plays, followed by the curve revealing it.