<div dir="ltr">This has tremendous potential for animation and motion graphics. <div><br></div><div>Imagine adding custom properties to the container object that would drive properties of the objects nested within it. You could then make numerous clones of the container but still effect specific properties to make each one different. You could also have a "time" or "frame offset" property that would offset the animation of the objects within the container without the need to create redundant actions.</div><div><br></div><div>All of these ideas invoke much higher conversations about data structure and dependencies that I'm not smart enough to be involved in, but I just wanted to show that having objects nested instead of flat would be a huge paradigm shift for Blender. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Jonathan Williamson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonathan@cgcookie.com" target="_blank">jonathan@cgcookie.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Beyond modeling, what other use cases would this have? I'm quite intrigued by it but at the same time it seems quite like an upgraded Empty (with modifier support).</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Jonathan Williamson<div><a href="http://cgcookie.com" target="_blank">http://cgcookie.com</a></div></div></div></div></font></span><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Paweł Łyczkowski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pawellyczkowski@gmail.com" target="_blank">pawellyczkowski@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A quick design of a Container type object. This is basically an upgrade<br>
to the Dupli-Group system, which is a bit hidden and limited.<br>
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<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/72vyll452v1ohem/containers_01.png?dl=0" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/72vyll452v1ohem/containers_01.png?dl=0</a><br>
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Best,<br>
Paweł Łyczkowski<br>
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