How to make character hold something?

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Hi!

I have trouble with character animation. I want to make character hold something(coffee cup, box, gun, ect…) on his hands and then drop it and take other thing. I have tried “Child of” constraint but it didn’t work (it jumps randomly other places and I can’t switch it off when I want). Is there any other and easy way to do this? I don’t want to start doing it manually.

Sorry if my english is bad.

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There is a tutorial for this here http://www.harkyman.com/2009/10/23/how-to-pick-up-and-drop-an-object-in-blender/

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I was about to ask something very similar to this. Thanks for the link This should work fine.

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Awesome link. ty.

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It said after you add the Child Of Constraint to “so press the Set Offset button on the constraint panel to fix it.” Well I can’t find the Set Offset Button. I am using the newest beta version of 2.5. I believe 2.55 is it there but called something different? If someone can post an image that shows the button I would appreciate it. Thanks.

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The ‘set offset’ & ‘clear offset’ are in blender 2.49b child of constraint, in 2.5 it’s ‘set inverse’ and ‘clear inverse’. I’ve attached a file that shows this in action for you to pick apart and learn from.

Randy

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25_ChildOf.blend (370 KB)

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Thanks! That is good tutorial.

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Revolt_randy I know the buttons Set Inverse and Reverse Inverse I should do the rest from there thanks. Update I did a quick test knowing the set inverse and clear inverse and it worked fine. Thanks again.