How to rig a weapon in animation editor?

[Oficcer_F]

** What are you attempting to achieve? (Keep it simple and clear)**
I want to be able to animate the upper part of the gun to go backward while shooting and that the arms go backward at the same time (ideally in the same animation)
** What is the issue? (Keep it simple and clear - Include screenshots/videos/GIFs if possible)**
When I add my gun into the right hand, it doesn’t get put into the animation editor. So I kind of have to guess where the gun would be + I cannot animate the gun.
** What solutions have you tried so far? (Have you searched for solutions through the Roblox Wiki yet?)**
I have read this article:

How to correctly rig & animate weapons?

I’ve heard there are several ways to do it, but I have no idea which one is optimal for what I’m trying to achieve. Not to mention that I also lack experience. Most people weld the weapon to an arm and animate the original character rig, which in my opinion, doesn’t look very good. That’s why I thought of rigging the weapon onto the original character rig.

My current rig (which animates just as expected!)

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I know rigging it to the Right Arm might be stupid, but it’s logical considering…

but I did not quite understand it, and don’t know how to put the weapon inside the character (kind of) that’s why I am making this new post.

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Basically I tried to put the model into the right hand:
https://gyazo.com/2bfbe4831f19fe77af4c0ca2cab32aa5
But it doesnt come up:
https://gyazo.com/eccdd2b324d2269370709498ab121543

So how did he do this: (?)
https://gyazo.com/f944500a315ea95f234bfe9f6a989181

Grateful for any help!
I am pretty new to animating guns so please explain thoroughly, thanks!

[H_mzah]

Please use the search feature to look for threads that could show you how to do this.

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…

[Oficcer_F]

Hey! Sorry for the late response (been sick).
I was just wondering if I could use the same method for animating a mesh? So basically a part in the gun that moves back. Is that possible?

Aaaaand I was wondering if you were going to make that other tutorial you told you would make, the one with the mag and stuff… Thanks for response!