adding objects to bones`

Support Animation and Rigging
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I was woundering how you go about adding objects to bones, like if you were to make a mech rig. I can’t figure it out, I know how to attach a mesh to an armature but don’t know how to attach a object to just a bone so that it stays with that bone

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short awnser is to use weight painting on your mesh with the certain bone selected that probably wont help much so read this:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BSoD/Introduction_to_Character_Animation/Upper_body_weight_painting

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No, weight painting has nothing to do with parenting an object/mesh to an armature bone …

To do that simply Ctrl-Tab into Pose Mode with the armature selected then select the object/mesh you want to parent to a bone then shift-select the bone you want to be the parent and Ctrl-P -> “MakeParent to” -> Bone .