Attaching weapons

[Skrakle]

I'm trying to add a weapon at a specific bone on my character but finding the child using bone name returns nil. I've also tried several other names in the hierarchy.

 

 

local child=self.entity:FindChild("dwarfmale_stand_bone_RFingerPinky");

[CreativeOcclusion]

you may try watching this video about weapons....may help, may not....

 

[Skrakle]

Thanks for the video link but it didn't help because i really need to attach it to a specific bone so my sword will follow/rotate correctly when my character walks or takes a swing and i haven't seen anything bone related in the tutorial. I forgot to mention that i'm loading my models in lua instead of placing it in the editor. I did place one so i can find the bone names.

[macklebee]

We would probably need to see your code/model as I just renamed the hand bone on my model to 'dwarfmale_stand_bone_RFingerPinky" and was able to find it and parent a weapon to it with no issues. I suspect maybe a typo somewhere or since maybe 'child' is a local variable, you are trying to access it out of scope?

 

Edit -- and fyi, it appears you have to match capitalization... so make sure the string matches exactly as shown for the bone name.

[Skrakle]

I copy/pasted the bone name from the editor.

Dwarf model: Dwarf fbx Weapon Weapon

 

entity={};

function App:Start()

entity[0]=LoadModel("Models/Characters/Dwarf/dwarfmale_run.mdl","Char","Randgard",0,0,5.73,0.02,1,Collision.Trigger,Entity.CharacterPhysics,"");
entity[0]:SetScript("Scripts/NPCS/player_character.lua");

weapons[0]=LoadModel("Weapons/axe_1h_hatchet_a_01.mdl","Weapon","Axe",0,0,0,0.02,0,Collision.None,Entity.RigidBodyPhysics,"");

local child=entity[0]:FindChild("dwarfmale_stand_bone_RFingerPinky");
if (child) then
   weapons[0]:SetParent(child);
   weapons[0]:SetMatrix(entity[0]:GetMatrix())
end

end

 

 

[macklebee]

hmmm i think there is a mixup somewhere... you are loading the 'dwarfmale_run' model but you are trying to find the 'dwarfmale_stand_bone'. In the model you posted there are no 'stand_bones' - only 'run_bones'. I am able to find the 'run_bone' no problem...

 

I think you are just loading the wrong version of the dwarf in the editor to find the bone you want, but then are loading a different dwarf model via code that doesn't have that naming convention - therefore its not finding the bone...

[Skrakle]

hmmm i think there is a mixup somewhere... you are loading the 'dwarfmale_run' model but you are trying to find the 'dwarfmale_stand_bone'. In the model you posted there are no 'stand_bones' - only 'run_bones'. I am able to find the 'run_bone' no problem...

 

You're absolutely right, I can't believe i didn't notice that!

 

Thanks for noticing!

 

[YouGroove]

My sowrd is too big and needs a rotation.

How to change that in the code ?

 

self.sword = Model:Load("Models/sword.mdl")

local child=self.entity:FindChild("Bone_002_R_002");
if (child) then
self.sword:SetParent(child);
self.sword:SetMatrix(self.entity:GetMatrix())
end

[YouGroove]

Got it working without using matrix.

 

self.sword =  Model:Load("Models/sword.mdl") 
local child=self.entity:FindChild("Bone_002_R_002");
if (child) then
  self.sword:SetParent(child);
  local pos = child:GetPosition(true)
  pos.z = pos.z + 1
  pos.x = pos.x - 0.5
  self.sword:SetPosition(pos,true);
  local rot = child:GetRotation(true)
  self.sword:SetRotation(rot,true);
end

[martyj]

Where did you get your dwarf model btw?

[Skrakle]

Where did you get your dwarf model btw?

It's a model from WoW that i extracted using a tool, it's used for testing only.