Godot 3D - Items and Bone Attachments | Character Animation Tutorial: 7 

Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm very happy it's been of help.

So the way I currently have it in hermit is the weapon has on it the name of the animation set, then when I equip it I use that name + "Idle", "block" or "Attack", so that way I can have any number of animation sets, and then filter through them based on the weapon itself, though obviously multiple weapons could share a single animation set. If there's demand for it I could implement that system here, would be fairly trivial to do so. Thank you so much for your kind words though! I'm glad your finding it useful.

Absolutely! I'm glad you find it helpful~

Happy to help!

That sounds very cool tbh, I did go with a holsterable object with an offset in previous iterations of my own project, but like you said this way does make it easier to add new items, though actually thinking about it I wonder if a combination could be used, like having a node3d that is the container for the leg holster slot, but then having a range, like two points with a distance between them, that based on the length of the weapon it can finely control how much offset it has to look like it's realistic, not sure. That being said I'm very glad you got some help out of the video, I'd love to hear about what you find as you explore using a similar idea with your project! (whether you use my way or not xD )

So they are surprisingly easier than I anticipated, as long as they are rigged up to the proper skeleton you can just instantiate the clothing mesh and make it a child of the skeleton, kind of handles itself, but I could probably just do that for the next episode, in fact I may very well do that for the next episode! Thank you so much for the comment and for solidifying what I want to do~ xD

Hello! Glad you are finding the series helpful, I'll try to answer your questions as best I can~ For the idle I would have two separate blends with a transition when you go from combat out of combat and back again, in essence I would have a blend for all locomotion for in combat with the combat idle as the 0 movement position, and then the normal one for the other. Not the most elegant option perhaps, but in my experience trying to make it more complicated usually results in less than desirable results. (Mind you this means the parameters your using to pass in the movement vector will have to be handled via code, so when your in combat your updating the right parameters vs when your in normal movement) For different weapons options in short yes, if you don't have a dedicated animator, if you are doing it yourself, just having an animation for the right hand holding a shield is probably going to be the most viable option, and filtering on an arm by arm basis. That being said you will obviously not have the best visuals in that manner, or at least it won't be as easy to pull off cohesive visuals using that method, the ideal method is you have animations for using one handed weapon with and without a shield in the other hand, and using those animations. For walking versus running you can do that, I personally would have them all in one blendspace however, as that way you can fade down from sprint, to jog, to walk, then maybe like a slow walk option. Personally I think that results in the most convincing result, but you can definently do another blendspace all together. (If you go the route of having another blendspace for the combat though this could get messy, and you would probably need a walking and running combat blendspace, plus a walking and running normal blendspace, just it could be a lot of overhead to keep track of xP ) Hopefully that wall of text proves helpful! Good luck with your project~

So it's theoretically possible, you can change the structure at runtime by using the function: animationTree.tree_root.get_node("whatever your node (probably a state machine) name is").replace_node(whatever node you want to replace it with). That being said it would be awfully clunky, maybe a better option would be to use the get node option to get the state machine within your root animation node, and instead of replacing it, just have several state machines, and switch the one your currently actively using to remove it's transitions, and replace the transitions of the one you want to be using with those transitions, this would effectively disconnect the state machine, and connect up another. (This is assuming your using a blend tree as your root animation tree node). Heres the documentation for AnimationNodeStateMachine, you can find the functions required to pull this off (get_transition_count, get_transition, remove_transition, add_transition): docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_animationnodestatemachine.html#class-animationnodestatemachine-method-get-transition-count

@@Bonkahe Interesting, appreciate your thoughts! It feels like its not a use case that's core to the engine, but it would help people split up and organise large anim trees in a more modular way. Looks like something very close to that is possible with a bit of work though, I'll give it a try some time :)

Hmmm, so I was unable to re-produce your issue, I dragged in a mesh onto a bone attachment of another duplicate of itself and it worked as intended, the only thing I can think of off hand is make sure that nothing has been rescaled on either skeleton, as in the node they are in is 100% normal scale of 1, this can cause various issues, that being said, should that fail hit me up on discord, you can find my profile on the godot main discord, my name is the same on there as it is on here, and I think sitting down in the godot discord I might be able to at the very least trouble shoot with you.

@@Bonkahe just saw your reply, sorry for not coming back sooner. i fixed the problem by, drumroll, reinstancing the gun and trying again... i'm not sure what went wrong the first time around, it's literally the same gun, nothing was changed so i'm really unsure why Godot thought it had to pull this prank on me

Lol I'm amazed by how often just removing it and trying again works! I'm glad you got it though for sure~

All my music came from the wonderful artist Miguel López, you can find the album here: mlopezaudio.itch.io/rpgexploration I believe the intro is the desert shrine song, I honestly can't remember which are which on the rest though sorry!

@@Bonkahe Thanks!