Equip Armor and following animation

Hello World,
I made an inventory system and the character panel to my game and now i have to equip the items in the inventory on my character panel, so far, so good. But I cant find a way to when i Instantiate a GameObject of the armor the current armor follow the players animation. How do I do this?

E.g.: I equipped the leg's armor. And when my character walk, the leg's armor should follow the walk animation.
Thanks anyway,
Gousenfire

Ps: I'm using the last version of Unity, and also last version of Blender (to make the item's models).

 

If you just want your armor to follow your player, place the armor object as child of the player. That way, then the player moves, the armor moves with him.

However, if you're talking about real animations (like armor legs following player legs), you will have to animate the armor and make sure the good animation is played on both objects.

 

there's no other way to easily doing that by skinned mesh renderer?

 

What I usually do is to just replace the texture on the player for the parts that needs to bend but for shoulders i would just instantiate it to the bone

 

you can attach an object to as a child of one of the bones of the skinned mesh - e.g. attach a helmet to head or a sword to hand.

But for a full suit of armor might be best to have its own animation, due to the potential for cracking at seams and such

 

Thank you guys. I'll make the animations for the armor!