Animating Belts?

#1

I am in the process of modeling a cop. I cannot decide whether I should model his belt onto the model or model the belt separately?? The belt will have gun, pepper spray, and walkie-talkie pouches. Any advice? Thanks.

#2

You can almost always get away by keeping props as separate objecst. In maya for example you can combine all the geometry and skin that as a whole (probably combining is not even necessary). In 3ds max, you can add a skin modifier to the belt and skin normally, and shouldn’t give you trouble. Hope that helps

#3

Thanks for the reply. I think I am going to model the belt to the body, but model the flash light, walkie talkie, gun and holster, all as separate objects as you suggested.

#4

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