Hi There. I am making a video game and i need to know how to make armor stay on the character but move with the animations that we made on him. if anyone knows please help
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There are a number of answers to your questions. the “easiest” is to model the armor on the character either simply as armor without a body underneath or as children objects to the limbs/body. Now, is the armor cloth, or metal? cloth will have to be deformed with the body model … which can be much harder to get “right”. Of course, there are other ways. I think your question is a whole field of study on it’s own (in fact several namely modelling, animation, and texturing, to name a few).
I think I know where you’re starting at… do a lot of reading! I have, and I still have much to do. As a starter, remember polys aren’t skin, armor isn’t physical, nothing is real until you figure out how best to fake it. Character models don’t put on armor, if the player never sees it, you don’t need to model it. A character in armor doesn’t have to be the same model standing “out of uniform”, and so on…
I hope this helps,
Galen
thanks so much 