Mainly I use Blender (and noticed the 'old' but helpful tuts here), and a friend also let me use his Maya because of the 3p problem I'm having.
The wep is in UT2004 with the help of a friendly scripter. In fact I've made a several of custom weps and a vehicle - but anim only. Everything works ok in UT except the pistol in third person view. The pistol shows up in the player's hand (F4 view) but no flash, shells or reload action. In 1p the flash is distorted, I presume because of the weird 'tip' problem I'm having:
I think it all goes back to the 3p bone 'tip.' (btw I've checked the scripts and the correct character anims are named) Importing 3p np, everything is where it should be, but after I save/reload Unrealed the pistol 3p tip has moved beside the handgrip of the pistol. (I noticed that the 'Tip' name after import to UT moves to lowercase 'tip,' if that means anything...)
Thankfully 3p is pretty straightforward (but obviously I'm missing something
). I've used Blender to export (2.49b) with Mod15_opti exporter. Also Maya 6 but results are the same both times, tip moves back by pistol handgrip. Maya, I've set the reference pose; preferred angle, presuming it could those. I wondered about changing the 3p's position - turning it and flipping it in relation to the 1stP pistol but in UT the same: the 'tip' defaults to entirely the wrong position beside the pistol handgrip. And, I'm presuming no weight painting is necessary for 3p models? Well I tried that too and weighted the tip to the pistol nose - and the nose was dragged back to the handgrip with the tip...So ppl, after trying all sorts I'm totally stumped - and I never ever want to google +3p again - corrupting my innocent mind
If perchance I find an answer on my long, long weary search for answer
I'll post it here so the world can know the truth of wandering @#$@#% 3p tips.So thanks in advance!
if you do sort out your modelling problem and make guns for BW it can earn you alot of respect both on runestorm and off so keep trying 
