How Do I Get A Character To Hold A Two Handed Weapon?

Development Cinematics & Media
,
1

So I have a shot I’m working on where I want a character to hold an assault rifle with two hands. I recorded my mocap with a prop and attached the rifle to the right hand Socket, this is super floaty anyways and is suuuuuper annoying, but how do I connect the characters left hand to the under barrel of the gun? I tried manually moving the gun with transforms and this looks really janky. Any ideas?

2

Hey there @theverybigfish! You’d probably want to look into two handed IK setups:

This is mostly geared towards games, but IK is a powerful tool in animation as well.

Disclaimer: One or more of these links are unaffiliated with Epic Games. Epic Games is not liable for anything that may occur outside of this Unreal Engine domain. Please exercise your best judgment when following links outside of the forums.

1 Like
3

Oooh I’ll take a look

4

I had noticed you had control rig already setup with FK (Forward Kinematics), this is fine for most uses but when you want something to stay attached or have realistically constrained movement, IK (Inverse Kinematics) is the way to go.

This video series can show you how to manually setup the Control Rig for IK:

Disclaimer: One or more of these links are unaffiliated with Epic Games. Epic Games is not liable for anything that may occur outside of this Unreal Engine domain. Please exercise your best judgment when following links outside of the forums.