Gun Animation

[Matte]

Hi. I'd like to know how exactly you should animate a gun, using ANY modeling program (I'm using XSI Mod Tool v6, btw. And if that won't work Blender).

If you know a tutorial, please post it, but what I'm really asking is:

• What movement should the gun make?
• How do you make a muzzleflash appear and dissapear? Or is this done through scripting?
• If you animate, how do yo add different animations (more than 1), because it seems to me that most modeling programs only have animations for movies and stuff.

Thanks!

[darksmaster923]

The best gun firing animations are actually have the gun rotate downward briefly before kicking back.