Using a second armature, to have a swapable ik target, and animate easily

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1. first, we animate the actor, in at least 1 action, (so you know it’s ready and won’t be modified much)

2. then we duplicate the actor armature, and go into edit,

3 then select the ik target bone for the aiming arm, and the pelvis,

4. we then do invert selection, crl+I and delete all other bones.
this armature, can accept animations you make on the first armature.

5. than we parent a object to the Arm Ik bone

this is a anchor point in space to move another object,

we will call the objects

Anchor - (where the IK action is played)

IKSwap - A object the player arm IK targets instead of his IK action target)

IkAimTarget = a object rotated via mouse aim.

then we adapt this code for our system.


import bge




def main():


    cont = bge.logic.getCurrentController()
    own = cont.owner
    if 'P1' not in own:
        own['P1']=bge.logic.getCurrentScene().objects['IkActionHandle']
        own['P2']=bge.logic.getCurrentScene().objects['IKAIMTARGET']
    
    if own['Switch']==True:
        if own['Timer']==30:
            own.removeParent()
            own.setParent(own['P2'],0,1)
        
            own.worldPosition=((own.worldPosition*7)+own['P2'].worldPosition)*.125
        if own['Timer']==2:
            own.worldPosition=own['P2'].worldPosition            
    if own['Switch']==False:
        if own['Timer']==30:
            
            own.removeParent()
            own.setParent(own['P1'],0,1)
       
            ##Move Aimer
            own.worldPosition=((own.worldPosition*7)+own['P1'].worldPosition)*.125
        if own['Timer']==2:
            own.worldPosition=own['P1'].worldPosition    
    
    #reduce timer
    if own['Timer']>=1:   
        own['Timer']-=1        


    


main()

the IkSwap mus contain theses properties
Timer Integer
Switch Boolean

and runs the following logic.

keypress (swap targets)----------and----------Timer=30
if Timer equal 0------------------/

if Timer Not Equal Zero-------python

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