How to animate Tool Parts (Guns, Knifes etc.)

[IceCreamPickels]

yeah i did, however the complications of animating the gun with welded to the torso, makes it unethical to animate, by doing that you’ll end up with so many so many unnecessary key frames that are bunched up to compensate animating the weapon to line up with the hand, however it makes animating easier such as cool reload animations, or throwing the weapon in the air unbounded to the hand

though in the tutorial it said you could do it in blender with constraints, but i don’t know how to do that in blender and let alone know which constraints to use, since the tutorial didn’t list the name of the constraints

and duel wielding, i would like to do that but scripting it might be a bit complicated and im not that good at scripting.

[callme_daninja]

You could modify the script given and clone a line for the motor6d of the other arm and replace the name!!! (torso again, if youd want), for blender, good luck dude, idk NOTHING about that

[IceCreamPickels]

say for example you wanna animate flipping a coin in the air and catching it, I would weld it to the hand but once the coin goes into the air, it’ll be tricky to animate the coin in mid and the hand because whenever you move the hand the coin also moves, however if you would weld the coin to the torso, you’ll have to bother having to line up the coin to the hand for each keyframe and that’ll be annoying, but however animating the coin in mid air will be easy since its not bounded to the hand

[callme_daninja]

@IceCreamPickels

I would weld it to the hand but once the coin goes into the air, it’ll be tricky to animate the coin in mid and the hand because whenever you move the hand the coin also moves, however if you would weld the coin to the torso, you’ll have to bother having to line up the coin for each keyframe and that’ll be annoying, but however animating the coin will be easy since its not bounded to the hand

Yeah i know, but you gotta deal with dat bud

[NimaDev (Nima)]

I don’t know if this is a mistake or something, but you’re not connecting the Motor6D here, you’re just repeating the animation process

@Headstackk

-- Connecting Motor6D locally

local anim = Instance.new("Animation", script.Parent)
anim.AnimationId = "" -- id here

local char = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character or game.Players.LocalPlayer.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local load = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid"):LoadAnimation(anim)

script.Parent.Equipped:Connect(function()
	anim:Play()		
end)

script.Parent.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	anim:Stop()
end)

[RenanMSV (DelzDev)]

For those with problems theres more posts with similar methods to achieve similar results:

How to animate tools (the easiest and best way) (for melees)

Every other tutorial on how to animate tools are just a complete pain to follow and just way too complex. So I will be showing you how to do this easily. Also with this tutorial if you already have tools that are already setup and have their parts welded with a Handle too then you are already good to go. NOTE: To actually animate I found that Moon Animator works best for animating tools for some reason so I recommend using that. NOTE 2: I will assume you have good knowledge of developing in …

How to animate a tool/object with a Dummy in the Animation Editor

Hey everyone, I’ve answered the question about how to animate a tool, such as a weapon alongside a rig/dummy a few times now and I thought it would be useful for the some members in the community if I made a tutorial about it. First things first, you’ll need to pick out the object you’re animating along with your Dummy. For this example I’ll be using a very simple ‘Gun’, and an R15 rig, however you can follow similar steps for R6 which I will add below. Before you begin: You should download t…

[TotalIyTyler (TotallyTyler)]

this is superrr useful bro
thank you for not keeping this method to yourself bro

[DMLGDPCC (TopG)]

I have a little bug, the output is telling me I have an invalid animation id but I just uploaded the animation I made and copied the correct code… anyone got an idea of what this can be due to?

[Rogue_Vip3r (Rogue)]

Anyone know why my gun keeps appearing in the workspace??

[JordanGetMeBackmyAcc (UndoingMagazine)]

make sure to weld the BodyAttach’s parent too

[NotPerplexedlul (Phantix)]

Hey I followed this tutorial and my animation looks like this in game below. how can I fix it?

Why is my animation doing this?

does anyone know why my animation looks like the video below when In the animation plugin it looks like this? (sorry for the bad Animation its my first time) Also the animation priority is “Action” This is how it looks IN GAME: This is how it looks in the PLUGIN:

[XeeonX]

Where do I put the three scripts that are in the tutorial?

[branghello]

Hey
Something weird is happening in the animation editor for me. I made sure to follow each step precisely.
First of all (idk how relvant this is), my dummy snaps to the weapon, not the other way around.
The main problem however is that neither the weapon nor the torso are movable. When I try to move either, the torso spins a lot. Also the grid below the dummy turns. This happens on R6 and R15 and I also played around with switching the Motor6D parts. The weapon-parts are unanchored and can‘t collide.
However the rest works find. Head, hands, legs etc. are movable.

Does anyone know what‘s going on?

[RBXToysThe2nd (defans)]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. Not only did this help for FPS creators, but other genres of Roblox and my project that I am working on specifically.

Is there any tutorial out there specifically for building a functioning gun off of this?

Thank you in advance

[kaspar1230 (Tyrone)]

Just make sure the different parts you want to animate are separate objects. If you don’t know how to use Blender yet, I really suggest you learn and I’m sure you’ll pick it up fast because it’s very intuitive. I was very rusty because I took a couple years break, and was able to come up with this weapon model after a long day of working. You can look at how I have the different parts set up:

Then I just rigged it using this tutorial that we are commenting on, which btw surely is the best tutorial there is on this topic! Very straight-forward and worked fantastically.

I then attempted to animate it in Roblox studio, which was a big mistake because the animation editor feels trash and if that’s not bad enough it crashed on me after I was almost done doing the reload animation. So out of frustration I decided to learn how to do it the proper way, using Blender.

I used the Blender rig exporter by Den_s plugin to export the rig into Blender. I set up a dope sheet panel, playback panel, graph editor panel and began animating. You can look up a tutorial for that, it’s actually surprisingly easy and animating felt much much better than doing it in Roblox. After a couple hours of animating I came up with this:

Which I admit looks pretty unnatural but I’m soon going to spend some time learning how to use the graph editor to give it some nice sway and motion.

Hope this helps! If you have any questions about the process feel free to ask me as I already spent a lot of time figuring everything out.

[sinanxd2 (Fisher)]

Lets say we named our handle “Body Attach”. The animation saves for “Body Attach” named part. So if I try to change the name of my handle to “BodyAttach” anim does not work. Do I need to remake the anim or is there a way to change the name and still keep my anim?

[smarties1920]

When I run the game, the bow isn’t in players hand and the parts fall down. This is the Error from the server script:
"Players.smarties1920.Backpack.Tool.LocalScript:4: attempt to index nil with ‘ChildAdded’ "
Anyone knows how I can fix this?

[THE_BEST0l0ch (THE_BESTol0ch)]

In the animator, the key for BodyAttach is installed, but when starting the game, the weapon position is not the same as expected. I didn’t find any information about this in the guide. Should I use Tool Grip Editor to adjust the position?

Moon Animator:

Game:

UPD: The problem was with RightGrip, which is created automatically even though RequiresHandle is unchecked.

[IceCreamPickels]

@Headstackk

Torso: If you wish the tool to NOT be constrained by the arms, aka being able to move freely when animating, choose Torso.

However, if you choose this method, the tool will NOT move when you animate the right arm. Which means the character is no longer “holding” the tool. This method is highly suggested for people who animates in Blender. since Blender constraints can solve this problem.

if you guys wanna animate using torso using blender use the “child of” constraint
and since the constraint can get a bit iffy sometimes use this video to help make things aligned

Blender: The 'Child Of' Constraint Demystified

and lastly don’t forget to bake the animation

Blender How To Bake Animation Tutorial

export it as fbx and import it to roblox

[OofDestroyer25 (Jim)]

Hello everybody! I saw a lot of comments saying that the script to make the gun go to the players torso isnt working. Here is an updated script I made!

script.Parent.Equipped:Connect(function()
	local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
	local char = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	
	local motor6d = Instance.new("Motor6D")
	motor6d.Parent = char:WaitForChild("Torso")
	motor6d.Name = "ToolAttach"
	
	motor6d.Part0 = char:WaitForChild("Torso")
	motor6d.Part1 = script.Parent:WaitForChild("BodyAttach")
	script.Parent.Unequipped:Connect(function()
		motor6d:Destroy()
	end)
end)

Hope this helps!