Need help with some parenting.

BethHicks84

I'm trying to get one hand to parent to the other, as my character is holding a sword with both hands. Is there a way, similar to say, 3DA Max or Maya, where I can just select both bones and hit a hotkey to animate the parent? How do I do this without messing up the hierarchy? I seem to be doing that. Ha ha. Thank you!

Any ideas at all?

Pharan

Are you using Spine PRO?
You may be lost because you're looking for the word "parent".
The feature you probably want is called IK Constraint (Inverse Kinematics).

Have one arm target the opposite hand. Or have both hands target a shared empty bone.
You can turn an IK constraint on and off as you need between and within animations.

BethHicks84

Yes I am using Pro. I used the word Parent because someone from support said i should parent the bone... but never got around to telling me how. The bones have IK constraints on them already just because they are arms... what is the process on how to make one hand to stick to the other? basically i am trying to animate a battle idle... the guy is holding a sword. i have EVERYTHING done except sticking the other hand to his sword. How do i do that? An actual process of how to do it please... ?