'allo, I'm rather unfamiliar with scripting and such, but I hope to learn how to attach clothing items to a character. I have my character fully rigged in Blender (ready to transfer to MED), and I also have a model of clothing based from the character model.

It's a jacket! And since he's currently nude, he probably needs to wear it. I've seen how to equip simple one-part items such as swords or shields, but this jacket is different since it's got to be attached to the chest, shoulders, arms, and forearms.

What methods are there to attach these different parts of the clothing to the different parts of the body?

Thanks for reading!

Two ways come to my mind:
1. animate the cloth exactly like the model, placed in the right position. In the engine you simply set it to the same position and angle and animation frame of the character.
2. If you use bone animation in the engine, then you name the cloth bones like that of the related bones of the character. In the engine you set the bones with the same names of the bones of the character at the same position and angle.

I plan to use bone animation within the engine, so number 2 seems like the best solution.

So I should probably place the character in root position, as well as my clothing items, then the clothing Master bone should be attached to the character's Master bone?
And when I animate the character, the clothing is animated as well?

The bone version is just an idea, I have no experience with bones so far.
My suggestion was that each bone of the cloth is set to the bone with the same name of the character, not only the master bone.

Hmmm... I'll look around and see if I can find some functions that can do it!


EDIT: Observing David Lancaster's tutorial with an attached weapon, I'll have to reposition the bones to the character's bones each time.

So I'll need to replace the vector things with bone-related things... This might not turn out to be as difficult as I thought. But I'm still a noob, so it might not work. xD