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How to attach a gun to right hand

sadiejfoxxsadiejfoxx Posts: 29
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I am having the hardest time attaching a pistol to my characters right hand. I have done the right click prop assign new parent and it won't attach to the hand. 

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 109,321

    What hapens instead? Is it litraly a prop - an item without any bones - or is it a figure?

  • wsterdanwsterdan Posts: 3,169

    sadiejfoxx said:

    I am having the hardest time attaching a pistol to my characters right hand. I have done the right click prop assign new parent and it won't attach to the hand. 

    Parenting a prop gun to a hand doesn't actually move the gun to the hand. If you parent it and you move the hand, the gun will move too (even if its nowhere near the hand), that would show that it's "parented". If that's the case, that the gun does move when the hand moves, you will have to move the gun to the hand and put it in place and – unless there's a pose for it – pose the fingers into position to hold the gun. 

    Hopefully that helps.

  • sadiejfoxxsadiejfoxx Posts: 29

    wsterdan said:

    sadiejfoxx said:

    I am having the hardest time attaching a pistol to my characters right hand. I have done the right click prop assign new parent and it won't attach to the hand. 

    Parenting a prop gun to a hand doesn't actually move the gun to the hand. If you parent it and you move the hand, the gun will move too (even if its nowhere near the hand), that would show that it's "parented". If that's the case, that the gun does move when the hand moves, you will have to move the gun to the hand and put it in place and – unless there's a pose for it – pose the fingers into position to hold the gun. 

    Hopefully that helps.

     

    Yes this did help so much! Thank you!

  • wsterdanwsterdan Posts: 3,169

    You're very welcome, have fun!

  • ElorElor Posts: 3,527
    edited June 2025

    In Scripts/Utilities, Daz is providing a script called SnapParent which will move the prop to its parent (as long as it's a bone if I'm remembering right): it will not be perfectly placed, but it'll do part of the job:

    To use it, the prop you want to move need to be parented to the correct bone, then select the bone and the prop:

    Here I selected Left Hand and the gun, but with Genesis 9, they are 'Left/Right Hand Anchor' bones, which allows a better default positionning of the parented prop

    Parented to hand:

    Parented to anchor:

    snap_parent_1.jpg
    1860 x 948 - 261K
    snap_parent_2.jpg
    560 x 751 - 50K
    snap_parent_3.jpg
    560 x 751 - 50K
    Post edited by Elor on
  • Drogo NazhurDrogo Nazhur Posts: 1,292

    I normally position the prop (in this case the gun) to where I want it on the body and then parent it in place.

  • kprkpr Posts: 357

    Drogo Nazhur said:

    I normally position the prop (in this case the gun) to where I want it on the body and then parent it in place.

    Correct answer smiley (parent to hand, but ALSO check Parent-in-Place). 

    You might also want to look at the gun's x/y/z coordinates - see @maymeanshope in this often-necroed thread: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/128241/reset-the-x-y-z-location-on-an-object-to-0-0-0

  • miladyderyni_173d399f47miladyderyni_173d399f47 Posts: 2,648

    @Elor, I never knew that script was there. Getting a prop to the hand, or wherever, is the part that takes me forever. Thanks!

     

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 3,320

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    @Elor, I never knew that script was there. Getting a prop to the hand, or wherever, is the part that takes me forever. Thanks!

    +1 - mind blown! Thank you! 

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