Weapon Creation – Arma Reforger

Tutorial Goal

In this tutorial you will learn about:

• Importing your first FBX file
• Adding sockets & skeleton
• How to configure new weapon

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If you don't have any experience with Workbench yet, it is recommended to go through modded weapon tutorial to familiarize with some of the concepts present in the Workbench.

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Sources files for this tutorial can be found at Arma Reforger Samples Github repository.

Add New Weapon

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Preparation phase consist of things like:

• Preparing basic structure
• Preparing mesh
• Exporting mesh

Structure Preparation

While sticking to official structure is not mandatory and there are no engine restrictions asset wise about it, it is recommended to follow guidelines listed here - Data (file) structure - to ensure that all automation plugins are parsing your assets correctly and make it later easy to navigate.

Therefore, your first task will be preparing following file structure

Creation Steps

• Weapon Creation/Asset Preparation
• Weapon Creation/Prefab Configuration
• Weapon Animation Setup - in this part you will get familiar with the Animation Editor, preparing new animation workspace for weapon by duplicating some existing files and linking this new workspace to the weapon prefab
• Weapon Animation Basic Creation - this page covers actual creation of animations in Blender and their export to Workbench, preparation of weapon IK pose and some basic weapon animation
• Weapon Animation Advanced Creation - this part describes process of creating more complex animations - additive motion, creation of prone variants of weapon animations, retargeting animations using Reforger source data and more