How to Hide Arrow & String for Bow & Arrow Animations
Hi everyone,
I’ve retargeted Paragon Sparrow bow and arrow animations to two of my characters and the animation looks great. The problem I’m having is that I noticed on the Sparrow character, for most of the animations, the bow string doesn’t appear and I don’t know how they did that. Other animations only have the arrow appearing at the beginning of the animation, then it smoothly disappears when it supposed to be shooting out of the bow which makes sense.
I know how to hide part of a skeletal mesh, but what I don’t know is how to hide part of a skeletal mesh only during certain frames of a specified animation. I see that the Paragon Sparrow character has custom animation curves like “dissolve amount” and 'distance curve," but I don’t know how this is making the arrow or bow string dissolve or not appear. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can do this?
Here’s a short video to show what I’m talking about