Rigging character attachments?

[Anonymous]

I currently have an assignment to rig my character I made for a class.   He is a soldier with lots of attachments, like belts, a gun, a knife and lots of extra pockets. 

Simply just need to know do I rig it with the skeleton?? Or do I rig the basic body and then parent those attachments to the body? 
any help would be great thank you 

[kttender]

For constraints, it depends on the object, but you can honestly just skin it to whatever bone(s) that are appropriate. Use closest distance as the bind method.

[zewt · Accepted solution]

You can parent objects under the skeleton, but usually you want to avoid doing that.  Take a look at parent constraints if you want something to rigidly follow a joint.  I wouldn't skin objects if I just want them to follow a single joint.

(There are exceptions, especially with game engine assets.)