[Bf-committers] Floor constraint - patch and Windows .exe

Johnny Matthews johnny.matthews at gmail.com
Fri Sep 2 17:40:07 CEST 2005


It seems to only effect things on the object level and not bones. Is 
this a bug or feature?

Martin Poirier wrote:

>--- Roland Hess <rolandh at reed-witting.com> wrote:
>
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>
>>Made a new constraint yesterday, called "Floor".
>>I've seen this (or a 
>>similar) feature asked for a dozen times in the last
>>year.
>>
>>The way it works:
>>
>>1. Apply "Floor" constraint to object (or bone).
>>2. Choose target.
>>3. Choose: X,Y,Z,-X,-Y,-Z. Default is Z.
>>
>>Z will not allow the constrained object to pass
>>below the target object.
>>-Z will not allow it to go above the target.
>>X,-X,Y and -Y will do the respective actions on the
>>global X and Y axes.
>>
>>Useful for placing a "floor" or "walls" for objects
>>and armatures. 
>>Apply to armature foot bones to prevent them from
>>slipping below the 
>>floor.
>>
>>Patch against current CVS here:
>>
>>http://www.harkyman.com/floorpatch.txt
>>
>>Windows binary (.exe only) here (3.4 MB - if you can
>>patch, please do 
>>that instead):
>>
>>http://www.harkyman.com/blenderfloor.zip
>>
>>Also, I don't have commit privileges, so anyone
>>(theeth!) who wants 
>>to check the code and possibly commit, please feel
>>free. Code should 
>>be pretty clean, as it's mostly c&p from the other
>>constraints. I 
>>kept notes, too, so I can write an update to the
>>"constraint writing" 
>>docs in the .org CMS.
>>    
>>
>
>I'll be away this week end, but I'll have time to look
>at this and commit when I get back on monday.
>
>At first glance, patch seems ok, maybe just change the
>name of the axis flags it's using. I'll probably just
>rename the track flag to a more generic name, so all
>constraints can use them.
>
>As far as update to CMS stuff goes, one of the CMS
>admin could give you an account there, or if you send
>me the updates, I can post them there myself.
>
>You could have put the patch directly in the patch
>tracker (
>http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?atid=127&group_id=9&func=browse
>) instead, since it's more practical to do followups
>and corrections there, but you'll get faster feedback
>by posting here, so...
>
>Thanks and regards,
>Martin
>
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