best way to animate

Hi

If a character as many guns, what is the best way to animate.

1) Separate characters for each gun

2) Attach the guns to one character, how would you do this (what is the best way).

Its a 3rd person shooter, so you see the character.

I think it´s easier if you have a working script. But that´s a little bit complicated. Animate every weapon with the character needs time but is the sure way and looks very nice also.

seperate. so you can also attach the weapon to a different character and you might use the same animation for different models

Hi

thanks for the info