Task 2 - Implementing Sword and Shield

Next I am going to apply different weapons to different sockets of my character.  I started my quickly creating a sword, a great sword and a shield in Maya.

Next I selected the skeletal sockets that I wanted to apply my various weapons to and positioned them correctly.

Next I created 2 static meshes for each of my characters weapons, one for when they are using the weapon and one for when they are sheathing the weapon.  After spending some time positioning my weapons on my character I tested the weapons and it worked.