Repositioning A Model Object in comparison of a Collision Shape

UnknownUser

So what I am going for is having the object loaded and reposition within a collision shape or a transparent mesh if that is accessible. So for an example. You have a sword swing animation but you do not want to provide individual models that render with the sword location. So when the Transparent Mesh or Collision Shape moves it also relocates the sword or whatever weapon I want to add or change upon being equipped.

This method... if you can understand what I would like to achieve.... Will provide any weapon to be loaded separately from the Character model and reposition with fluency of the Character model's animation

I also once thought of comparing materials or shades/textures to match where the hand is and glue onto it. So if the texture around the hilt is red and the hand in a close fist like formation is texture blue than red attach to blue... etc.

Bean_B_Beanie

Reading this over, if I'm understanding correctly, you want to be able to load a custom mesh (the sword in your example) and have it automatically move to stay on/in the hand of your character model, even through animations.

Try adding a Spatial node as a child of your arm model (if it is a separate mesh from the base of your character model) and place it near the hand. Add a child MeshInstance and set its mesh as the mesh of the item being held when needed. The Spatial should be affected by the rotation of its parent. In the event you have a single mesh character model, you can still use the Spatial node idea, but you will have to set up a separate animation that will play and affect the Spatial node. Again, set a MeshInstance as the child of this Spatial node and have its mesh attribute set to whatever item is being held.

I recommend this based on the little knowledge I have of 3D animation in Godot and the testing I tried.