Best way to replicate animations from character to viewmodel?

[aeroactual (clive)]

i wanna make a viewmodel that plays and replicates all animations of the chartacter

the viewmodel will just be the characters arms and you can only see in first person

i wanna make it so you can always see the viewmodel even without tools in first person

ik how to get a viewmodel working but how could i replicate all animations 1 to 1 from the characters arms to viewmodels arms

maybe a script that copies cframes over? or something to do with watching what anims play and replicate it to viewmodel but then it’d be glitchy maybe

[dthecoolest]

How do I replicate Real Arm movements to Fake Arms (ViewModel)?

I whipped up a repro in a couple of minutes in the concept of the view model you’re currently attempting to achieve. I had to make a few respective adjustments from what I suggested to accomodate for R6 rigs. Namely, the following was done: Changed HumanoidRootPart to Torso, as all character limbs are held in the Torso for R6 rigs I used the transform method rather than my originally suggested AnimationPlayed method In addition to all this, I went ahead and created a rough rig that has …

[aeroactual (clive)]

thanks

for tools what would i need to do? would it be another version of the viewmodel but the tool put inside