Can you make a players arm reach out for an object without animation

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  • What are you attempting to achieve? (Keep it simple and clear)
    I Want to make the players arm reach out for a car door without using animation
  • What is the issue? (Keep it simple and clear - Include screenshots/videos/GIFs if possible)
    I cant figure out how to do it, for example, in gta when you press f to get in a car the characters hand reaches out to get the door handle. The position and orientation of any body part seems to not get recorded down when an animation plays
  • What solutions have you tried so far? (Have you searched for solutions through the Roblox Wiki yet?)
    I’ve tried to search things on the dev forum but nothing comes up
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    I don’t want to use animation because if i animate the car door aswell it seems hard to sync them both together.
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Just guessing but would tweening the hand and arm to the car door’s Position work?

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Would the whole arm follow? Because I don’t know that much about tweening.

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You might have to put a ball and socket Constraint at the shoulder, a hinge at the elbow and keep the hand oriented a certain direction when moving it to the door handle.
I’ve seen posts about putting constraints in a Humanoid for ragdoll effects. You have to disable the appropriate Motor6D animation joints, and enable the constraint joints that you added to the Humanoid.

Way beyond my knowledge level though…

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Alright, Thanks for the awnser. Will test later.

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Sorry for late reply, I couldn’t do it earlier because I was busy. It’s my first time using a ball socket constraint but when I disable the motor6d’s the hitbox ragdolls but the mesh is still in place I tried disabling the animation script but that didn’t work
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Edit : Just remembered why lmao, because I need to move the bones