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What bone would it be though- the bone at the start of the fingers?


Just make a new bone in the palm or something.

I like the vertex option because it just allows me to make a weapon model and be done with it. I'm working on a game that has a lot of different weapons and characters, and in the middle of a battle, I want characters to be able to pick up a weapon that's just lying around. So creating animations for each weapon for each character is pretty extreme.