Melee attack animation help

hello guys, i'm new at the scirra forum and already appreciate the attention here, thanks.

so, my problem its the difficult of making my character arms do a melee attack, because i'v made a arm with separetade parts for him, to hold a gun and follow the mouse pointer, like a horizontal platform shooter. but my game will have melee weapons too and i need a easy way to make a animation for the short range attacks:

<img src="http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l198/666sinner/boneco3.jpg" border="0" />

and i dont known how to make a cool animation without loose this multiple parts arm. i made this for the equipment change feature that i'm going to do for my project but, i dont know if there is a easy way of turn the character into a close range combat. if someone got some idea of what can be made please send me a light.

<img src="http://s96.photobucket.com/albums/l198/666sinner/boneco1.jpg" border="0" />

<img src="http://s96.photobucket.com/albums/l198/666sinner/boneco2.jpg" border="0" />

i was thinking of use the bone movement for the pointer, but i dont know...

and sorry for the crappy drawings

I like your drawings :D

I would recommend either using bone behaviour, or if you want something a little easier and probably better, you can check out Spriter. :)

Hope this helps.

~Sol

thnks man, it really helps. i'll take a look at it and see what this thing can do. thanks a lot SoldjahBoy