Parenting and Unparenting in the middle of an animation

[Kermit the Forg 167]

How do i parent or unparent in the middle of an animation(if possible)? Example: Steve is holding a sword and drops it. Example 2: Steve walks over to pick up a shovel.

[Toumouniek 225]

You cant but that would be a useful feature. For now, what you can do is put a second sword at the same place in his hand. Put the first sword at alpha 0% while the other is at 100% (as a transition, put instant so it is cooler). Then you make it look like he drops the second sword was the first sword. Ill release an animation today, at one point I do the same with a torch. You'll see, Ill put the link here

[david 8.4k]

Or uncheck the "Visible" checkbox in a keyframe.

[Winterin Animations 172]

What about the parent on/off feature in an item, block or character's keyframe? I'm guessing that means parented altogether...

[Skiedude 288]

yes but when you unparent it the item does not just stay where it is. Like the suggestions before have a duplicate item parented to the hand the whole time with visible turned off. Then when he picks it up just change the visible. And reverse the process if he is putting it down.

[XxthatminecraftguyxX 16]

You can just save the animation as a movie and then unparent and put it back where it was then make it drop in the new animation

[Instabaken YT 0]

I came here because i wanted to know how to have someone walking, and then their head flies off, the body walks over to the head and puts it back on, but when the body moves over to the head, the head moves too. I know how to get around this with 2 objects and visibility and stuff, but i still would like this unparent feature next to the keyframe one