Modeling, Rigging And Animating A Gun In Blender And Unity

#blender #unity3d #gamedev
I have really been working on my modelling and animating skills in blender, with the intention of creating some good looking game assets.
I have been inspired of late, to share the details of my work, in the hope that someone watching it might find something useful in it which they can use to make their own awesome stuff. And by they, I mean you, so please do use this video and its contents to go model, rig and animate something cool, I'd love to see what you create, so pop me a tweet at tvtig.
I've really enjoyed my 3D modelling work lately, so you can probably expect to see a bit more in the way of content similar to this, I also would really like to get into the texturing aspect of things, but I just need to make sure I'm committed before spending the money on a decent bit of texturing software. There is also so much to learn in that space.
You can download the model from the prop library repo: github.com/Tvtig/PropLibrary
The video that taught me how to properly import things to Unity: • Blender 2.8+ to Unity ...
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Discord: / discord
Chapters:
00:00 Modeling
08:25 Rigging
10:23 Animation prep
10:38 Animating
12:50 Setup for exporting
13:11 ​Unity
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[@Tvtig]

Hey Guys - You can find the blend file below, also please don't forget to leave a like if you enjoyed the video :) github.com/Tvtig/PropLibrary

[@popcornking]

Tip- Apply values before starting animating

[@ricejenkins4973]

This was a wonderful tutorial! I was worried about getting to the animation part because I was afraid it was going to be super complicated, so I really appreciate this tutorial making everything easy to understand

[@antanaspaskauskas9432]

Thank you, that was much easier than I expected. I dreaded trying to rig and animate, but at least for mechanical things its grand!

[@OmeedNOuhadi]

Thank you so much for keeping it smooth and simple!

[@Someone-pg3rn]

Btw, when glocks are fired the barrel arches up a bit for the next round to enter

[@Tvtig]

Oh that's a nice little detail I wish I'd added. Thanks for pointing it out. I thought you were gonna tell me glocks have no hammers like everyone else lol.

[@Someone-pg3rn]

@@Tvtig lol

[@98studios92]

most hand guns chambered in 9mm and .45 acp have this feature

[@JacquesDigital927]

And a glock is striker fire doesnt have hamer but good to see how this is done why we watch the video

[@Someone-pg3rn]

@@JacquesDigital927 agreed

[@Crowbar]

This is one of the best tutorials on this topic I've seen yet

[@harleypalmer2229]

Top Man! My opinion carries no weight but if you're like me and need a quick and easy-to-follow summary about rigging then this video (^) is the one. Great job Tvtig!

[@thomasjhun3700]

although this was sped up, it helped me SO much in understanding the workflow of modeling and rigging a gun, like which parts I actually need to model and dont need to such as the barrel.

[@Tvtig]

I'm really glad you found it useful!

[@bruhman5829]

THANK YOU TVTIG. I've been trying to get into modeling, rigging, and animating by making my own Ravenfield mod, but all of the tutorials for it may as well have been made in 1983 for how out of date they are. After several days of scrubbing through long-winded, confusing tutorials with bad mics and hard-to-follow instructions, it's so nice to come across a tutorial that's as well put together as this one is. Rigging makes sense now! I'm looking forward to see what you come out with next.

[@Tvtig]

You are most welcome man. Thanks for the support :)

[@epicswag8802]

This video was probably the most helpful blender video I've ever seen, I come back to this every month or so when I forget something lol

[@Tvtig]

This genuinely warmed my heart to read. I'm glad you found it useful!

[@gabrielegagliardi3956]

Blender is such a wholesome community, your are both awesome. Subscribed 💪

[@TheSuperiorDuck]

dude thank you so much this tutorial was amazing

[@redpillproductionscanada5563]

Great job, not sure if you knew this or not but a glock does not have an exposed hammer, thanks for making this, had no idea how this process worked.

[@Tvtig]

Ah thanks man, many people have let me know in this comment section that I have indeed created a new, triggering variant of the glock haha.

[@daniilleonov4822]

Very clear explonation, thank you so much!

[@syiko_]

This video is gold.

[@chumleechumbucket6625]

the rigging process here is a godsend, I keep coming back because I keep forgetting how to properly set up bones and all

[@Tvtig]

So glad you found it useful.

[@ruix]

My man also invented a new Glock model. Great tutorial by the way.

[@Tvtig]

Lol gotta keep innovating. I have no regrets about my external hammer Glock haha

[@reidlab]

thank you!! i was so confused on how to split the model up!

[@Tvtig]

Ah you’re welcome, I struggled with it for a while too. Then I realised, real life objects are often made up of many different parts, let’s just model them individually!

[@stickykeys7413]

Thank you! this basically taught me rigging, i use this a lot!

[@Tvtig]

To be honest, even I come back to this video when I’m trying to rig stuff haha. I’m glad you found it useful though!

[@RictorScale]

@@Tvtig it's crazy how good it is. i've barely ever used blender and was able to rig my gun first try. You did a great job

[@lmaoman7335]

hey man, i got to this video recently, but if you see this i gotta tell you this: glock does not have visible hammer (the thing in the back of the slide) it has integrated hammer, just lil tip, otherwise its great model

[@Tvtig]

Thanks for the advice man - haha, a few people in the comments have let me know that I don't know how glocks work!

[@jensenj912]

Thank you

[@DragaoNinja]

Very well! I like here to help too! Congratulations !

[@Tvtig]

Thank you very much!

[@daboyz6106]

Really good video.

[@SharkByteOfficial]

Oh no lmao the cursed HAMMER on A GLOCK...

[@Tvtig]

OH NO! lol

[@Tim_Voronkin]

Thanks so mach!

[@chaver28]

hey bro great tutorial dude and i know it says unity but any chance you know how to get it all working in ue5??

[@alex342gwsturk8]

glocks dont have hammers and you added a hammer at the back... my eyes are burning

[@Tvtig]

Lol - I’m sorry I offended your eyes with my lack of education. I wouldn’t have even been able to tell you that this was a glock.

[@bleragi]

Here I don't understand where is the collection of the gun gone and if I need to add an armature and just copy bones or should I have separate armatures? Since I'm rigging a revolver how do I make a constraint to rotate the cylinder in place?

[@Weiufthe]

This is underrated content

[@Tvtig]

No you!

[@sidsays1340]

Just for clarification but if you do not plan on doing recoil on the gun animation but rather with the character itself is the bone on the handle of the gun necessary???

[@herry887]

Awesome video! Quck question, I am trying to do the procedure you taught at 9:25, but when I try to edit the two bones my "keep offset" option is greyed out. Any ideas as to why this is happening?

[@herry887]

Actually, I think this video (kzbin.info/www/bejne/kICXnKR6aKeAoaM) shows another way to do the same thing at 4:38?

[@someidiot5229]

for some reason it never gives me the option for single bone did blender do a update that changed the armatures or something?

[@pingiboi351]

Man, a glock with a hammer at the back just looks so wrong

[@user-ur2wi5ve5s]

this is amazing with i knew how to do stuff like cut a hole in a model with another model... P.S. Hammer Fired glock wtf

[@BroodLing46]

Cool, but Glock does not have cock hammer outside the casing :D It really helps to go on the range and do some shooting practice with real one

[@milan_wulf]

Nice tutorial! I just like to know why is it important to use bones and not just simple keyframest for animation?

[@Tvtig]

To be honest, I've been thinking about this and can't think of a good answer other than, I just prefer the structure of working with bones rather than individual objects. Great question though, if you ever find a better reason, please share it with me!

[@bruhman5829]

i tried to animate without bones and it blew. every time i tried to rotate the gun it would animate each part rotating by itself, so the slide and the magazine and everything were clipping through each other and shit

[@milanwulf]

@@bruhman5829 Interesting, so you think parenting needs to be handled differently when animating without bones? Or do you have to consider World Rotation and Local Rotation?

[@onioncontrol]

What the establishment fears most: the glock with a hammer. Great tutorial btw you're very talentedm

[@Tvtig]

Thanks man, coming up with my own variants of guns is indeed a special talent lol

[@itskrissbruhtv]

at 10:54 I hit rotation and location, but what do you do at the bottom to make the two points connect into one? I have the starting point, and the trigger pulled point, how do you smooth the transition between the two points like that?

[@Tvtig]

Yo! I just duplicate the first key frame with shift + d to keep it in place for a few frames.

[@savageYP]

Absolutly amazing video taught me alot. however i cant over look the fact you put a hammer on a glock when glocks dont have exposed hammers lmao. (Sorry for taking the piss)

[@Tvtig]

Lol no need to apologize, I have gotten so much stick for it in this comment section - I am immune. Glad you found it useful though!

[@eastrasmann]

Awsome.idk If you take fan suggestions for either SFM or Blender but using the Kenny season 2 model from the walking dead could plz do a short fist fighting punching kicking slamming elbowing kneeing slamming into objects short combat animation of Kenny absolutely destroying zombies in combat animation. Search up Kenny player model and NPC in the steam workshop.😁

[@Tvtig]

Haha dude! That sounds like so much fun, thanks for the comment and suggestion - I'll add it to the list :D

[@eastrasmann]

@@Tvtig yessss

[@caydenhester1310]

Could you export blender bones to unreal as well?

[@sneedchuckfeedseed]

( the pistol displayed as the reference image has an internal hammer)

[@5CylMedia]

glock with a hammer?? anyways thanks for the tutorial

[@BusinessWolf1]

8:17 bro glocks do not have a hammer. They have a striker inside them. Same thing with every other gun that doesn't have a hammer on the outside.

[@Tvtig]

You know, this video has over 100 comments, and I think 80% of them are teaching me about the glock hammer lol. Hope you found some value in the video anyway :)

[@notinteresting1495]

So you would much like in irl, split the model in to upper lower or in the case of pistols, frame and slide?

[@Tvtig]

Yes! Especially for the purposes of animation, you would need different parts that you can move around.

[@QueueWithACapitalQ]

11:23 "pay attention to the mechanism of the thing you are modeling" he says whilst animating an external hammer on a _glock_ after childing it to the slide. Glocks dont have external hammers. Cool tutorial otherwise

[@DarkTails-zg6ji]

Ok so i did basically the same thing with a pre prepared model that i rigged (not made by me), but when i go to the dope sheet and then the action editor everytime i insert the keyframe for all the bones and select one of them, it changes the action from "shoot" to , say "Bone_BaseAction.001". PLEASE HELP.

[@emilalibekov]

Man I feel your pain when you were modeling slide with barrel with all those failed boolean attempts!

[@Tvtig]

Bro - even though it was a few months ago, I still remember how frustrated I got modelling that part haha!

[@EmpathizeVortex]

@@Tvtig dont even get me started. took me days of failed attempts on the barrel to figure why it kept failing everytime!

[@fluxxy6260]

hey i was wondering what did you press and or use to make the model to be fully transparent? I can't seem to find it myself

[@Tvtig]

Hey there - Alt+z enters x-ray mode. The icon is in the top right hand corner of the screen, looks like two squares overlapping each other.

[@fluxxy6260]

@@Tvtig thanks!

[@arc5379]

yo dude, is the vertex group not important? wanted to join discord n ask but link is down tho, thanks in advance

[@user-fg2lh2kk6l]

just need the lower part

[@zigouris6806]

in unity for some reason animations dont work but work in blender (i watched a lot of tutorials on how to apply animations and i tried using a model from mixedo and it worked but my animation dont work any ideas?

[@distinguishedflowerturtle]

Im having trouble with pairing the bones together to make parent bones. when i click the child bone first then the parent bone and press ctrl+p the keep offset isnt selectable. reply if you can help me with this on discord

[@Someone-pg3rn]

this vid is the easiest animating and bone tutorial for blender lol

[@sansavatar5929]

When I was animating the rigged gun it created an action for each one of the bones instead of one action for every bones. What could be the issue? I am adding a single bone, duplicating it and parenting each part of the gun to the bones accordingly then I parent the other bones to the base bone just like you did but you got a single action for animating every bones edit: alright nvm I was duplicating in object mode instead of edit mode

[@sulfur3684]

my gun seems to stretch when rotating or moving, any idea why?

[@GameDev_Master]

DAMN HELL. I spent 1 week trying to rig my gun and now thanks to yo0u it worked

[@Tvtig]

Haha I'm glad I could help man!

[@capitaljay1]

I didn’t read the comments to see if anyone noticed this, but it seems like the mechanism that spits out the shells is on the left side instead of the right side which I don’t know how many guns do that

[@Tvtig]

Oh that's an interesting detail I missed. Good catch.

[@capitaljay1]

@@Tvtig Thanks, and thanks for the tutorial !!!!

[@nimbusz260]

W

[@lechefski]

can rigging be skipped for a simple weapon like this?

[@DatsDaven]

glock with hammer because yes

[@materwelon717]

Dont forget to~

[@Tvtig]

You watched till th

[@Lorange_7]

for some reason it deletes parts of my gun when i add it to a bone, how can i fix this?

[@momakkjj9502]

Are you South African you accent sounds like It? Good vid btw

[@Tvtig]

Ja Boet! lol Thanks for watching :)

[@coldhdhs]

at 12:31 you skip what seems to be a very important step which is stopping me from exporting the animations

[@BecksCraft]

glock with hammer. EEEUUUUUH BROTHER EEEEUHH

[@ALFONIC]

Bro I don't know if your still here but my bones aren't linking up to my mesh, when I try to parent them in pose mode the armature still moves on its own without the mesh.

[@ALFONIC]

Never mind, I had to parent it with automatic weights, instead I was doing it without any weights lol, thanksfor the video!

[@vagodinfir1636]

@@ALFONICNo,use weights with empty groups,make and name parts of the gun as vertex groups,such as Body,magazine,charge handle,and then assign those parts of the gun in edit mode to the vertex groups.Make an armature,add one bone for each part,then name the bones exactly the same as the parts they will be controlling,for instance The bone for the magazine should be named “magazine” or whatever you named the vertex group.Then in object mode parent the gun to the armature with empty groups.

[@duboo5016]

4 seconds into riging and I cant even add a bone...

[@haijehiemstra2883]

Uhhh... glocks dont have a hammer on the outside last time i remember.

[@Tvtig]

Oh no!

[@dicebot9617]

what tool do you use for the modeling?

[@Tvtig]

Hey there, I used Blender!

[@dicebot9617]

@@Tvtig lol no i mean what TOOL not program

[@dicebot9617]

@@joelwallace4885 bro i mean in program tool like lmao why dont ppl understans

[@LaynaLatte]

he's just using built in blender tools

[@chicc73]

@@dicebot9617 extrude inset etc. is that wym

[@toast_cat2258]

Can you make it into a asset i really like it

[@makealotofmoney9955]

keeps crashing on me when i connect the bones

[@gamermanmitchell]

how do i delete actions in the action editor?

[@Tvtig]

In the scene collection view, switch to the blender file view, and you can delete the action permanently from there. Not sure why it's so convoluted.

[@brandonviger2245]

what happens if crlt p doesnt work in edit mode with both bones

[@Tvtig]

You can get there from the object menu too! docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.79/editors/3dview/object/properties/relations/parents.html

[@AmauryChihuahua]

do blender and godot next

[@Tvtig]

I might just do that!

[@AmauryChihuahua]

@@Tvtig nice

[@THR1VE.NATION]

You put a hammer on a glock... still nice though

[@knuckles7410]

11:09: Why do you do it the lamest way possible instead of binding a rotation to the hammer related to the slide position value?

[@beamwh]

When he made a hammer for the glock, I was like "DUDE WTH WHY"

[@Tvtig]

Lol this seems to offended a few people. Whoops.

[@beamwh]

@@Tvtig lol

[@beamwh]

@@Tvtig Twitter users be like:

[@LunarMARAUDER]

Why can't I select keep offset

[@Mavmack]

Me too

[@HecloThere]

for some odd reason the keep offset is not working for me

[@EmpathizeVortex]

Same how do you fix it

[@EmpathizeVortex]

figured it out. its because i duplicated the armatures instead of adding bones. there should be one armature then rest are bones

[@The_Chosen_Heretic]

9:23 This just doesn’t work. The options appear blurred out for me.

[@Tvtig]

Make sure you select the armature in object mode and then switch to edit mode before doing the parenting.

[@appledoesrandomstuff]

still doesnt work@@Tvtig

[@gr1m5H4d3]

please remove the hammer from the glock

[@somebodynotnew9470]

glock doesn't work like that;-;

[@Tvtig]

Lol yeah, I've been told MANY times in this comment thread

[@pv8685]

you did watch 10 people watch shooting guns... and didnt realise that the glock you modeling is striker fired and doesnt have a hammer at the back at all? 😆

[@Tvtig]

I watched 10 vides and didn't even realize I was modelling a glock lol.

[@333333333797]

u didnt knew how a gun works?

[@muratemresimsek8668]

hammer on a glock. LOL

[@Tvtig]

hahaaaaahahahaahhahahahahaahhaaa

[@charlieramsey2828]

Glocks don't have hammers.....

[@turiipturiip]

why youre makeing model but cheating?

[@Tvtig]

Lol how did I cheat?