[Bf-committers] Armature total mess?

[Jeremy Wall]

Exactly. And this "evaluate everywhere" is also part of what makes it
difficult to write constraints for armatures right now. It's not
always clear what gets evaluated where in the armature code right now.


On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:29:07 -0500, Roland Hess <rolandh at reed-witting.com> wrote:
> One of the most basic things to consider regarding constraints and
> their relation to armatures is whether there is an advantage to
> allowing constraints to continue as "live" modifiers. In the work
> flow, constraints are re-evaluated with an armature at every move, on
> every frame, to help achieve the final displayed pose. Would any real
> functionality be lost if constraints were instead turned into simple
> keyframing tools?
> 
> When the user interacts with the armature while posing it,
> constraints would be calculated, etc., but afterward (between key
> frames), they would not be used, interpolating motion strictly
> between bone keyframes. Want to change to keys? Grab the appropriate
> bone at the frame you want to affect, and the constraints become
> active when you start pushing bones around.
> 
> Constraints become a posing tool, not an interpolation tool as they
> (partially) are now.
> --
> Roland Hess - harkyman
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