Rigging equipment and weapon slot in Blender 

Here are the different steps : Adding new equipment to an existing rig : 01:49 Building the snapping mechanism : 02:38 Adjusting bone position : 04:21 Back pack slot : 05:39 Creating the custom switch : 08:17 Double handed mechanism : 11:23

This is a great extension of your Rigging course. So glad I bought it, thanks for sharing your work!

Thank Pierrick! Your course help me a lot at first understand, then make my own model and rig.

My dude, this is exactly what i was searching for! Great video, pace and explanation is outstanding. I dont know how to come up with the process without looking for tutorial

Awesome tutorial, Pierrick! I'm learning so much from your videos. I'm now considering buying your courses because you explain things very well. Quick tip: When you are dealing with the constraints switching, you can write a boolean expression instead of figuring out your quick maths. Since we are switching between integers, we can simply check for the numbers themselves: Expression: var == 1 The above expression will check if the var being passed in by the Data Path is equal to 1. This is more intuitive than trying to figure out differences between numbers. var == 1, to check if the Custom Property is set to 1 var == 2 to check for 2, ... and so on. What this will do is flip the influence between 1 and 0 based on the result of the expression. Very convenient in terms of switching between constraints where you only allow for one constraint to be active at a time! Be sure to have two equal signs, it just means "is equal to" in programming since one equal sign is used for something else, but I digress. Anyway, looking forward to learning more about Blender with your help!

exactly what I was looking for Pierrick! thanks a lot :) will try to watch and follow with my own character

Great job. Your work is brilliant. As a beginner I study in modeling and texture after complete both of them I wish to learn rigging so that i see all your videos n try to understand. Thank... For the 3d world.

Double Handed Mechanism Fix: There is a minor issue this tutorial misses (skips) at 13:10 CTRL-BATTLE-AXE-MASTER had to have been unparented. Earlier when duplicating the Control Bone, it was still parented to the MCH-SNAP-BATTLE-AXE. If you unparent at this step and apply the Master Control Driver to the Copy Transform Influence on CTRL-DEFORM, it will fix any issues.

Can I just say: the illustrated runic Blender bone in the course promo touch and just goes to show how much you love this stuff.

If someone has issues at 13:30 , you have to unparent CTRL-WEAPON-MASTER bone before parenting with hands, it was killing me before one guy resolved my problem! Also great fuking tutorial Pierrick, you the best

Wow, that really helps, but for the first "newbie" experience it seems too complicated, but don't be scared my friends, just pause and repeat the video when you have complication, and try to recreate carefully, step by step. And after that you will manage it and learn a lot of new, you'll see!

Awesome, very helpful for beginners.

the animation is very cool ! i love it

This is a very useful, simple AMAZING 😁💪

great video. thanks for sharing your skills

Pierrick, thank you brotha! I have purchased all of your tutorials. Such an awesome and knowledgeable individual. Also, your English is getting better, as far as how pronunciation is concerned, I also wanted to say I appreciate you learning English as well because it allows you to pass down your skills. I just wanted to call that out because I can totally see you intentionally working on that to make it easier for us Americans, lol. Thank you sir!

I dont know how to thank you... I was looking for this for weeks lol. Thank you

Amazing and informative as always. Please do the animation breakdown.

Thanks for explanation sir. REAL help me ❤️❤️❤️🙏

great tutorial!

Thanks for the information

Pierrick the legend

Thanks Pierrick!

Rien que l'intro mérite un pouce bleu. :D

Thank you!

Can you help me? What if you have 2 o more rigs in your animation (character, rifle, pistol, melee) how animate and how to export? Animation is not the problem I have problems exporting FBX to unity always the exported is just keeping the last animation even animating in different actions in blender

🖐🖐if possible please do make updated tutorial on this topic. completely understandable that this is advance topic, but it quickly turns into headache due to the nature of the topic & presentation, with having to keep track of so many bones, the quick operations performed without giving proper pause to register the previous info. tut is very fast & the voiceover, felt like you were reading the script in hurry & it being almost 4yr old, you've gotten so much better since then🔥

thank you

It is a very important topic I was looking for , and you have unique skills of rigging, but the explanation isn't nice , there are many steps you do without letting us know what's the exact matter of it But anyway you still the best animator I have seen in RU-vid

Very cool but can someone break down why we need so many duplicated bones at the same point? Its like I need a flow chart to understand what bone to use and why.

oh cool thanks man

Hey pierrick one question, how do you make the extra bones compatible with unreal engine?

Hello Pierrick! Can you show breakdown of animation? Very interesting to see. And thanks for this video, very useful )

merci beaucoup

This should be an add-on. *I'll pay for that.*

I did everything right except something at the end for the double handed mech. When I switch the MASTER Property from 1 to 0, the hands do not go back to their default position. They instead follow the MASTER CTRL bone near origin, while the weapon moves correctly back into place onto the back. How do I fix this?

So I made the armature for the mannequin and the armature for the weapon in separate collections. I put them in the same collection, but I can't do the step at 6:15. It's not giving me the option to "keep offset". I think it's because the armatures are under separate tabs. Is there a way to fix this without starting this whole thing over?

ThankYou soo much Pierrick, is their a way where i can do both where the sword can snap to the character and as-well-as do the animation like thor where he grab the hammer slowly just like that with sword with my character?????

hey there , this method is useful If I decide to export the character and the weapon to a game engine such as Unity? because I am planning to do a workflow ,for universal holding weapon, and then in code switch the weapons, but I need the same animations apply to differents weapon (of the same styke ,pistol, for example) ... but the most important thing I do not want to include extra bones in "avatar" in unity , I would like to see clean avatars in unity with property name convention. that is a little trick I am stacked for more than a 10 days with this problem of using weapons to unity , without compromising the avatar with extra floating bones (special for that who need to use in relation of the bone's character with the weapons). thx!

Hello, Pierrick Picaut I'm trying to get a katana in and out of its sheath easily. Without having to move the hand with the union of the katana handle, until its complete exit. I'm using your tutorial to get where I want. However, in the part of doing the initial process of Target_Bone_Sheath, when moving the TRGT_Bone, it occurred to me that a sheath did not move with the same intensity with the bone, as if there was a slow or smooth movement. Would you know how to help me through this process? Hugs

Legit amazing! How would you do it for armor?

Please use screencast and repeat this tutorial. It is had to follow listening only. Great tutorial !

I may have missed the part, but wouldn't you need to parent the MCH-SNAP-BATTLE-AXE-hand.R to the right hand IK? I can't seem to find where that happens. Otherwise when you move the hand, the weapon will just stay in place.

Bro is the bone layer on your N-panel and addon?

hello, im having a problem where the animation plays alright in editor but when playing in game engine the sword snapping mechanism doesnt work no matter what i try', it snaps to the bone in the center of the armature

Where did you get that bone layers management tool in the side panel? Is it a built in addon or something you paid for?

Very Cool!! -Just missing the Screencast keys(or similar) to help more se the keys presseds! :( Thanks!

Are all these bones really needed? I get lost with so many bones

This video hurts my head. so many blink and you miss it moments that god help you if you miss them cause you get so far in just to wonder what your missing and why its falling apart

bro you can download the shortcut vur addons to make the tutorial easier

3:38& 45 Make parent. { Select connect or keep office what keyboard command did you run for that

From inspector to blender amirite :P

maybe im just new to blender, but it would be nice to know why an axe needs what seems like 15 nested bones to achieve animation, haha.

I am not sure why you do not directly work on the deformation bone but instead you copy a transformation from the def bone to a newly created tgt bone, is there any reason for that? you didnt explain it in the video, and if you are working on the tgt bone why you did copy tranform from def -> tgt, but not tgt -> def? because in my logic you control tgt -> def, so, it should be ctrl bone -> tgt -> def -> mesh?

tremendo

Great video Pierrick. Everytime I got a problem with my custom rigs I just go immediately to your videos. I am creating a game where few combos will have a character throwing weapon in front of him and then having it materialize in his hand/weapon slots at the end of animation. This tutorial kind of gave me idea how I could handle it, by adding another bone parented to the root of character in 0,0,0 position and then making a driver similar to yours but with float expressions for smoother transition. The slight problem with this, is that everytime he decides to throw the weapon, I have to take the controller bone 0,0,0 into similar positon of hand bone before detaching it, instead of having it snapped to the hand aswell and making the animation easier to handle. Is there a simple solution in Blender that will make the bone detach from hand and then use the bone to freely move or I'm just overcomplicating it?

Hey Hi! Can someone please tell what the song is plays in 14:50?

are you giving us for free the animation course ? or this videos are not related ?

my question is: how do you animate the weapon swapping?

Is there any particular reason that you assigned the axe to the deformation bone with vertex groups, instead of parenting it? I mean, that's what I do, but I don't have a good reason for it and I'm in desperate need of an excuse.

Hi pierrick! I was wondering if your rigging course is still update to date, I'm really interested in getting it I'm just not sure if theres been a lot of changes in blender rigging since then. Appreciate the help!

Whats is the difference between Copy transform and child of?? because I use child of to attach the bone or object to another, and the copy transform do the same, which one I should use?? Someone can answer me?? and thanks for the video pierrick, I want to buy your course, but I need to finish one that I already started XD

Are you using an addon for your bone layer management?

This is great quality but so hard to follow!

Hey there, is there a way to allow the axe to keep it's transform data when unconstrained from the hand?

That help me so much! But that's one thing I want to know. If I want the weapon to appear and desapear how should I do? Like the weapon was invisible or the character has the super power of creating weapons...

hi there, this work in unreal engine?

bone bone bone bone bone AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH TOO MANY BONES

how would i change the weapon position once in unity

Thank you for the tutorial, it is really helpful from learning it. but I do have one suggestion, i got confuse sometime when you didn't refer the bone by it name (e.g adjust the angel of the axe by selecting the end msh bone, on the screen I did not see you select anybone, i did saw the lift highlighted hand.L bone, I didn't know were you rotating the msh-snap-axe bone or the msh-snap-axe.hand.r bone...) it happen quite a lot in your video. it would be helpful if you could address them by their name.

this is for game assets i guess right? becouse for animation i think setting this up is not necesary

At 3:40, what if I can't move the CTRL bone?

I don't understand what you said and did at 1:45 , please will you explain. I am new to using blender but this tutorial seems to be the most helpful. I am just struggling to understand what you are saying at time.

Dont know if its a update or i missed a 000000.1 second clip of him saying something but cant get the 2 handed part to work. it just dose weird stuff now and cant figure out what is wrong. love that i wasted 3 hours on this 15 minute video for it to all be for nothing

What would I do if the character I have is a dual weapons users

I found it very complicated there must be an easier way to put a gun in the hand of a personagen

Hello Pierrick! Can you show a breakdown of the animation? Very interesting to see. And thanks for this video, very useful )

Would this method work for armor?

theoretically, if you made a mask to put over a character’s face, could you do this same thing? Like, if i want the mask to me removable, can i make it that way?

0:51 how to rig like that... i can't follow this tutorial..

this video is kinda fast to follow, there are alot of hidden shortcut steps you did that got me lost

you're tutorial is so hard to understand

I followed this tutorial, but my weapon keeps rotating and scaling itself everytime I click on my timeline

There has to be an easier way to do this😥

I can't follow this.

I hope i dont have to do all of this every single time*-*)/ das a lot...

There's an easier way to ignore scale for the back slot. Select the bone, go to Bone Properties -> Relations -> Inherit Scale. Set it to None.

How the fuck do you know all this? Where did you learned all this settings and stuff?

I had to stop watching because i dunno what and where my deformation bone group is suppose to be...