Animating a gun

Support Animation and Rigging
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Hello i am very new to Blender, I just downloaded it yesterday.

I made this simple gun for a game I’m making in unity 3D and I’m trying to figure out how I should animate the gun shooting. I have never animated a 3d model before. You see that little cylinder looking thing sticking out on the left side? Thats the charging handle and I want that to move back and forth when the gun is recoiling from each shot being fired. Should I texture the gun without the charging handle, and just texture them both separately. Then put them together for the animation?

Also how would I do Magazine changes?

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I would make the charging handle a separate object and a child of the gun. Then you can animate it separately and it will otherwise move along with the gun, which will also have its own animation.

Peace,
Bud

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If that is the first 3d model you’ve ever made, ur a savant.