Frame specific weapons?

Not built in to UFE, but I manage it without much problems.  You could animate it directly in mecanim or send events in mecanim. If you need a better explanation lemme know...

But that brings up something I've been thinking, UFE should have unity events built in the move timeline. It shouldn't be too difficult to add that function in.

I have a tutorial on how I manage weapons, it explains some about mecanim events. I use them to signal playmaker to do its magic.  But they are a super simple way to call any function on a script at specific frames of an animation. The bigger problems beyond making something visible is hit boxes, making a sword apart in the correct hand based on which direction they're facing... All issues I talk about in my tutorial...

http://www.ufe3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=883

Some things to know about mecanim events in particular is you can't add them to animations that are part of an fbx as those are read only. You have to copy the animation itself to be able to edit it and add events in the animation window.  It's tricky because it looks like you can add them just fine to the fbx version but then your work doesn't save...

There are a ton of tutorials about mecanim events, they are not complicated at all...

There's a way already in UFE, i used it for a gun in a character and it works completely fine:

http://www.ufe3d.com/doku.php/move:body … itychanges

Let's Say you load your 3d model, and then, as a separate object add the weapon under the "hand" bone, then turn the weapon off in the unity inspector.

Now you can select the hand bone as the part you want to "appear" and for how many frames,  as well as if it Will work while facing right, left, or both.

Hope it helps!

I needed a bow to appear...as the animation is him cocking back a bow to shoot the arrow (projectile)

The concept is he is forming the bow out of nothing so it forms than disappears when the pose is over