Here’s how you can fix some animations in Godot 4.6 when an equipped item looks perfect in one animation… and totally breaks in another. In this video I’m using a shield as the example: it sits great on my shield socket during idle and equip, but the second I play my block animation it starts clipping right through my character’s nose. If you’re doing top-down stuff (like I am here), that kind of clipping is super noticeable, and it just doesn’t look good. My fix is simple and really flexible: I add a Node3D child called a shield offset, then I keyframe its transform (position + rotation) per animation in the AnimationPlayer. I key the “idle” first to lock in the “good” default placement, then I go into “block” and adjust the offset right when it starts clipping—angle it a bit so the users can actually see the shield, push it up/back, then key it. After that, I copy those keys into my “block idle” so holding right click keeps the shield in the correct spot. To make it work cleanly in-game, I export a Node3D reference in my script and return the shield offset when it’s available, otherwise I fall back to the regular shield socket. Assign it in my equipment component, hit play, and now the shield stays clean in idle, equip, and block.