Socket Weapon Hands Problem

[alx0427]

My game is a FPS. i have the arms and the weapon seperate. i am using the arms as my character mesh in my character blueprint. i have already figuered out how to get the gun to sit in my players hand, but i have two questions:

1. how do i get the fingers to wrap around the gun?
2. how do i make it so that when i fire, it plays the animation to move the hands AND the gun (due to recoil)

[fighter5347]

1. Take a look at the IK system: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Animation/IKSetups/index.html

[alx0427]

@fighter5347;76469

1. Take a look at the IK system: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Animation/IKSetups/index.html

How does that help me at all? it seems that that has mainly to do with large scale animations, not fingers.

[fighter5347]

1. That’s exactly what you are looking for, because it’s a common technique to do such stuff (e.g fingers to a trigger, hand around weapon, feet on the ground), but you could also fit it in your 3d program -> you will have to reimport it several times (for every weapon you will have to do that).

[alx0427]

@fighter5347;77096

1. That’s exactly what you are looking for, because it’s a common technique to do such stuff (e.g fingers to a trigger, hand around weapon, feet on the ground), but you could also fit it in your 3d program -> you will have to reimport it several times (for every weapon you will have to do that).

So how exactly would i do it? can you give me some kind of guidance or direction as for what to do?