I'm trying my best to follow the

[fierce whale]

Gonna start a thread before this becomes 1/64 of the channel's text

Actually w8
Have you made the workspace needed for theM320?

@glacial thicket
Are you following dis guide? https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Animation/Setup#Animation_Workspace_Preparation

[glacial thicket]

Yeah that's the one

And yep I've got the workspace stuff sorted, anims are assigned in the animation editor

[glacial thicket]

I haven't done anything with the agr and weapon/player asi's, only created them

Atm I've just got ak74 stuff in there

[fierce whale]

yeah you'll need to do the agr/asi stuff

You'll need to make sure to assign these three animations as described in the tutorial.
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Weapon_Animation/Basic_Tutorial#First_Time_TXA_Export

[glacial thicket]

I see now that I missed an entire fucking part of the tutorial HAHAHAHA fuck

[fierce whale]

Lel

@glacial thicket Also you'll want to use your safety animation for Idle_Finger

Otherwise your weapon will not be held normally when you lower the weapon
In the future you'll want to copy the safety animation, name it Idle_finger or finger_pose (as in ak74 example) with the right index finger extended

Remember trigger discipline is moi importante

[glacial thicket]

Will do, thanks heaps mate. Love your MAAWS btw

Making some progress at least

[fierce whale]

fuck Imma krill myself

[fierce whale]

what do you plan to use for a sight btw?

[glacial thicket]

Vibes for now

[fierce whale]

Fucking lol
I can't send you my model but I can send you a blend file wth conveniently placed empties with range numbers that I used to assist my friend with his M320

Also you can see what animation export BI uses for each node,

Also ERC, CRO, and PNE is Standing, Crouch, and Prone

Switch_Mode_Dep_On/Off
The Dep means deployed, as in using bipod/resting on a table
ngl I found this out like a week ago Dx

[glacial thicket]

nah we'll just aim up

[fierce whale]

you sound like my fuckin friend

[glacial thicket]

I'm guessing it's bad practice to just use a massive offset lol

[fierce whale]

wdym?

[glacial thicket]

I can set an offset on the prefab which would make everything line up

[fierce whale]

I would avoid doing it on the prefab side

Generally most o the time you'll want the weapon skeleton (and origin point) to be at 0,0,0 and near/ in the trigger

[glacial thicket]

Yeah the skeleton is definitely at 0,0,0

[fierce whale]

This skeleton fits nicely into prop.R
Then wrap hands around it for the IK

[fierce whale]

you still having massive issue with the weapon being off center?

[glacial thicket]

Yeah unfortunately. Not sure what I've done wrong but I've fucked up something at some stage

[fierce whale]

you available to stream in the creavity lounge? https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/360679067395031050

[glacial thicket]

Really appreciate the offer, but I'm currently at work remoting into my PC 😆

[fierce whale]

I'm using my roommates laptop (probably going to be mine at some point) to work on mods at wrk too lol

[glacial thicket]

Okay I think I've found the problem

My Armature is at 0,0,0 but the scale isn't set to 1, I thought it was

I'm setting the scale to 1 but it's just making the armature fucking HUGE

[fierce whale]

Oh yeah, apply trasformations is always important

Ngl sometimes I just apply rotation and scale just out of habit
apply all if I don't have any empties selected

It's up there on like the 10 commandments to refourgor moddin

[glacial thicket]

Damn, wasn't the problem

Scale is definitely set to 1 but it's still offset

[fierce whale]

send picture of the offset?

[glacial thicket]

Still this

[fierce whale]

can I see the blender ik?
and does it show like that in animation editor?

[glacial thicket]

I see the problem is now in blender, this is what happen when do method one on the tutorial

When it snaps to right hand

Does that mean the Armature isn't at 0,0,0?

[fierce whale]

I would say ping me so I get to you faster
but for sum reason I haven't been hearing the pings

Anyways, looks like Prop.R is... in the wrong spot?

Hmm, might need to either move Prop.R or where your skeleton origin (and thus gun) sits
Generally probably good idea to move the skeleton in this case, as sometimes the inbetween animations will default and prop.R might snap into a weird spot

[glacial thicket]

Soz just trying to not be annoying

I must've moved it by accident at some stage

[fierce whale]

yeah, I'm trying to do reticle textures leave me alone!
jk

[fierce whale]

the most annoying shit possble
this is usually why I save a + copy (blender wil leither add a 1 or increment by the last number)

for example this is the default rifle pose with the CPW
The skeleton is copying the transforms of prop.R
the w_root bone is the selected one (teal color)

though for my cpw I did end up moving the prop.R
but it's still pretty close to where the original prop.R is, atleast in the x/z axis, just moved forward in Y axis

[glacial thicket]

Back on a fresh blend. So I should move prop.R forward?

Tbh I have no idea what I moved in the last iteration lol

[fierce whale]

Oh no I'm just showing my example

I guess send me a pic of what it looks like with the rifle pose and prop.R?

[glacial thicket]

@fierce whale

So should I be moving the hand down to fit?

I just thought it would snap a lot better

[fierce whale]

not sure why but it's really dark

I think it'd be better if you moved the guns skeleton up

Oh wait

can you share you copy transforms modifier?

I think you're parenting the gun maybe?

Like maybe.. I'm not sure how to explain it

this is the usual gun in refourgor

the w_root (bottom of the trigger guard) and meshes origins arfe all at 0,0,0 on the xyz

[glacial thicket]

w_root is definitely at 0,0,0, but I don't think the meshes are. That might be it

[glacial thicket]

Nvm they are at 0,0,0

[glacial thicket]

I've looked at the modifier, it's set up the same as the tutorial's one

[fierce whale]

@glacial thicket Does your have this unde relations? (under object properties on the right)

Also i'm not sure but you mentioned not knowing what I was talking about when it comes to copy transforms but your weapon should look like this

[glacial thicket]

Now I'm getting a bit lost. The tutorial says to set the parent of the meshs to the armature which should be renamed "Weapon", then on "Weapon", set the target to Character and the bone to RightHandProp

[fierce whale]

Yes

So setting the parent of the emshes to the weapon armature is done either by shift dragging in the top right menu (View Layer menu)
or setting object relations in the 2nd above image

then when you gun and weapon skeleton are with the Animrig example dude, you use copy transforms on the weapon skeleton to tag it to prop.R

Imma making a short vidya maybe help explain it rahter than text

It got three minute to process

[glacial thicket]

By prop.R do you mean RightHandProp? That's what it's called in my blend anyway

[fierce whale]

1 sec

[fierce whale]

No there should be a skeleton named prop.R

sorry bone* in the IK

this thing right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2HIc-ve7O4

https://tenor.com/view/jesus-ballin-mars-bars-gif-19910027

[glacial thicket]

Ah yep I can see it, but it won't come up when I search for bones

[glacial thicket]

vid is private

[fierce whale]

I didn't hit save fml

[glacial thicket]

Okay I'm with you now, i set the target for the weapon to rig instead of character, and set the bone to prop.R

Aaaaaaand same problem oml

This shit suuuuuuuuucks