character animation with objects for game engine

Nathan3D

hey so i was wondering if when making an animation for a game like my character attacking with his sword, would the sword be a separate object or the same object just a different mesh part? im guessing i will have to parent it to the hand bone i use to rig just not sure if it should be the same object or not and if it is 2 different objects then how to do import them into the game engine like unreal 4 and keep my animation between the two?

any info given will be much appreciated.

ZacD

UE4 has sockets that you can easily bind an object like a sword or weapon to. There's a bunch of tutorials on youtube for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xOoknUDGaE

Chimp

Objects are separate assets entirely to the characters here, and we attach them to the hand bone of the character in-engine. But in max for animating we will import it and attach it the same as one would in-engine and it works out fine.

bryansouza

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