Parent an object to character controller

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How to I connect a object (eg. a gun/sword) to character controller? Im working with a first person character controller and a sword. Ive tried connecting the sword to the characters main camera. As that is the only way it'll work so the sword "follows" the character/camera movements. This works ok, except for the fact that it somehow restricts the characters movements, like speed and moving left/right/foward/back. Thank you to anyone that can tell me where I am going wrong. Or better yet, a new method.

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Answer by superventure · May 09, 2011 at 07:30 AM

You cant just drag and drop the sword into the players hand bone? You could also say in the swords code

var hand: Transform; //drag and drop hand bone here in the inspector

transform.parent = hand.transform; transform.position = hand.position;

if you have a collider in the sword, it will still collide with the player when they try to move in gameplay. Set the swords collider to trigger, and it will not interfere with the players movement anymore

hope this helps

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superventure · May 09, 2011 at 07:33 AM 0

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Oop, just realized you meant you DONT have an actual player mesh? well you could still achieve this with and empty game object, parented the same way. Just make an empty game object and put a character controller on that

oliver_ · May 11, 2011 at 05:52 AM 0

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The only problem is that the sword is just a simple model without any code. (As i cant code anyway...)

superventure · May 11, 2011 at 08:46 AM 0

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Its simple enough to slap a java script on it... the code I gave you is basically all you need in an update function. If you're not willing to do even that, I dont know what else to tell you :(. Otherwise, if you still need instruction with that step, just ask

psychentist · Apr 30, 2012 at 02:02 AM 0

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Roll up your lazy sleeves, and hit up that API. The only way to learn scripting is to practice it.

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