We justed started animations, are totally newbies and I have a problem with it. There is this guy holding a rifle with two hands. The rifle is smart propped to his right hand. In the image we posed him holding the rifle with both hands and all is fine. In walkdesigner however the rifle is only in one hand as the guy is running and the animation therefore doesn't run smooth. My question is can a prop be parented two both hands? How do I solve this? Thanks for any tips.

Parent the free hand to the Rifle, the rifle to the holding hand.

Something sure is. You need to switch off IK for his left hand.

Creations, not sure what is causing the problem (has the gun been scaled?), but try this, instead of parenting the left hand to the gun parent the left hand to the right hand, as the gun moves with the right hand, parenting the left hand to the right should be visually equivalent to parenting it to the gun, and may avoid the problem. Replicant, parenting a hand will not work unless IK is turned on for that arm.

Switch IK on for the arm. Select that arm's hand. Call menu Object, Change parent. That will change the hand's IK-parent.

By default his hands and feet are IK-parented to his BODY. If his left arm's IK is set on, and if his left hand is IK_parented to his BODY, and if the walk designer moves him by moving his hip and not by moving his BODY, rhen his BODY stays still as his hip enc move, and therefore his elft hand stays with his BODY. The BODY is an invisible body part which is the parent of his root segment . A human's root segment is his hip.

set up your starting pose and parent gun to figure "body" turn on figure IK for arms parent figure hands ( left and right) to gun apply animation. the gun will move with the body and if the body is not animated then it will be necessary to move the gun with the forward motion of the figure

Try Replicants idea first, before overcomplicating things: "switch off IK for his left hand". If that doesn't do it then try the others, although I think his will work.

If you parent the gun to his BODY, and if the walk designer moves him by moving his hip, then the gun will stay still as he moves. I always parent guns to the man's chest. The gun looks like an AK47. Where can I get the model of it?

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