How can I parent a gun entity's transform to the hand bone of my player?

[weary kelp]

There are a Gun Entity (which instantiated the Gun GameObject) and a PlayerEntity (Instantiated the Player GameObject) in my scene. The Player GameObject contains a rig with a hand bone.

Tried adding the Parent Data to the Gun Entity, but it doesn't allow me to specify which part of the entity I want it to parent to:
state.EntityManager.AddComponentData(entity, new Parent() { Value = playerEntity });

Am I supposed to create an entity for my hand bone to make this work?
Feels like this is a stupid question but I am stuck here for hours now, so any help is welcomed!!

[bleak lake]

you can just bake reference to hand bone beforehand. If it's game object (no entities for bones) - then just some component on game object itself with reference to bone, which you'll need to obtain in runtime once instantiated

but gotta admit, this is pretty ugly

and if your gun is game object too

I'd consider just parenting it only via game object

while entity responsible for gun would be without any transform

[weary kelp]

Removing the Transform component if the gun is parented sounds like nice solution🤔 Will try that out, thanks!!

[bleak lake]

are you implying your gun exists in world without being equipped?

[weary kelp]

Yes, there are guns lying in the world and the player can pick them up

[bleak lake]

removing component is ugly, but I can't think of anything cleaner tbf