Holster It!

Worked out some code to handle weapons a bit closer to what i'll be aiming for when the game as a proper inventory and scene item framework in place.  So far, tested working with the pistol, take a look (and marvel at the awesomeness of my in-unity 3d cube based gun holster!):

Of course he can draw and holster the gun, and everything looks good, the holster of course is fixed to a mount point on the character, in this case, i'm just using the right thigh with an offset and local rotation to place it nicely.

If you look at the second picture you'll see my approach with aligning the gun to holster, basically what I'm doing here is parenting the gun to either the Avatar.RightHand joint or the Holster.  Each weapon will store its own offset/rotation preference for being mounted within the hand, this may change as I refine the rigging of TheMan more here so that there is a defined "mount point" which provides a pre-oriented transform which weapons can mount too.  But in that case, instead of using a couple of public properties on each weapon (Vector3's), instead i'll just be pre-rotating the weapon so when its mounted and it's position/rotation zero'd out - it will line up still.  I'm not sure at this point if i'll attempt to standardize this too much, most likely yes but it may still be a good idea to retain the ability to manually adjust these position/rotation values (i.e. perhaps to allow for carrying a knife blade down instead of up?).

Now to know which holster to use, I'm defining a few rules here.  Right now my weapons each have a "type" and that weaponType determines which animations to apply.  So i'm re-using that for holsters, which creates the follow scenario:

1. Only one holster PER WEAPON TYPE may exist at a time on TheMan, so for example, no dual shotguns, smgs, knives, etc....

2. A weapon will be matched to a holster of its type, the search done on holster, and parented to that holster.

3. Holster meshes will need to be designed so they can be adjusted on the body for proper engagement of the target weapon.

Right now, I'm assuming zaxis foward and Vector3.zero offset for mounting the weapon to the holster and using the offset/rotation in the case where we mount the weapon to the right hand.  It's looking great, nasty cube mesh aside.  So back to it, now i'll need to set this up for 1h, 2h, shotgun, rifle and smg as well - the animator and I have spots in mind for each of these :).  Will post a new weblplayer as things progress.

Update: Got 2HD working, that was easy :) (knock knock):