How to make a "Third person character's" arm point in the direction of the camera?

[TorQueMoD]

@MostHost_LA

Assuming a standard setup up all you had to do was place an IK bone into the correct camera driven position, and then use any of the IK solvers with a variable alpha.

Try something similar to this, but move the IK bone, then have the solver address it.https://youtube.com/watch?v=FGtEsZ3_JgE
Also, for a proper first person view, perhaps you’d have been better off with an aim offset, especially if the flashlight is one handed.
For that, all you do is pop out single frame animations of the various angles from a DCC just like the aim offset. same idea - and it would work quite the same, possibly much better then IK.

Yeah, using an aim offset is what I did for the new method of a “true first person”. Do aim offsets work with a third person character though? It’s been so long since I dropped this that I can’t remember exactly how they work. Aim offsets are essentially adjusting the third person animations to match the rotation of the camera, aren’t they? That could be perfect.