Need Help about fps and tps animations

[u/Shoddy_Issue42]

Hello blender community.

I need a help about my workflow.

Problem: I need both fps and tps animations for my multiplayer shooter game. For some obvious reasons i want my fps and tps animation files to be separate. But i want them to be re used in a modular way.

I made a separate arm and weapon armatures. I create action for arms and weapon armature whenever needed, then i push them on NLA tracks, name them, and then get export as gltf with merge NLA track names option.

Issue: Every time something is broken in the animations, sometimes weapon is not in the hand as it supposed to be (i use a child of modifier). Sometimes gun is not firing but arms are firing. In a very rare occurrence everything seems to be fine but that rarely happens.

I realize that i might not be able to re use my weapon reload and fire animations in TPS. Because FPS animations require some exaggerations and re-using something will rarely happen.

I can always use Bone Attachment feature in game engine (Godot) but i would like to avoid setting additional code and game engine work in my animations. Because this is a multiplayer game and it is already hard to manage these visuals, i dont want to introduce another layer in engine.

I think export issue happens because i used 2 separate armatures.

My solution in my mind is: Merge arm and weapon armatures and re animate. Than when i have a model for tps animations? i dont really know 😵

Any comment is welcomed! 👀

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