(2D IK) Animation is broken after moving certains bones

Hello, so my question is quite specific and I can't find any answer anywhere else. So for my project, the player can take off parts of his body to progress in each rooms. So he can for example take off his head and throw it or take off his arm to catch things unreachable.
So here is the problem, whenever the player use that, the bone that is attached to this parts of his body stop working in the anim. The rest still works fine but the head Bone is broken and same for the arm. Just like if they weren't in the anim anymore.

So i need a way to reattached this bones to the rest of the animation. I hope someone can help me here i am quite desperate lol. Thanks for your time.

 

Animations are keyed to bones by name, so you can't remove them and expect them to continue animating.

Some alternate approaches:

- use child objects that are NOT animated and parented below those bones and add/remove those, while leaving the bones intact.

- have completely different models with various combinations of with- and without limbs

- implement your own animation reconnection scheme perhaps?

 

Using child objects as the above answer suggested is probably easiest way to go about things; however, to elaborate on an "animation reconnection scheme," you can use

Animator.Rebind()

to fix your animations after reattaching any bones.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animator.Rebind.html

You will have to call this method every time a bone is reattached. If you don't have any basic coding experience, you're better off just using child objects that aren't part of the animation.

 

Thanks for your quick answer ! I was thinking about your first solution and that's what i thought was the better or at least the easiest. I'll will try and get back to you guys, thanks a lot!

 

Oh thanks for that i'll see if i can use that in my scripts ! Thank you for you answer !