MAYA: Constraint or Bind? Which one should I use?

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I’ve made a gun model wit ha skeletal rig - no hands, just the gun model. I wanted to animate the run cycle and since the gun is a rigid model as opposed to skin, instead of binding, I used Constraint. When importing the model I get

Warning Could not find the bind pose. It will use time 0 as bind pose.

Does parenting the objects to bones work with unreal engine or can you only “bind” the mesh?

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I’ve just tested something and apparently yes, you need to use bind to attach objects to bones. Parenting or constraint seems to be just a Maya specific rigging tool.

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Did you manage to figure it out? How do you bind them without getting the mesh to deform, so it acts like a mechanical object?