[Bf-funboard] Parenting-Hotspots

[J L]

When animating a character that has a prop like a pair of glasses, the prop 
can either be parented to some part of the character, or painstakingly 
hand-keyframed. The first is not too flexible as:
taking the example of glasses, if the character has the glasses on its head 
(and parented to the head to follow it) there are problems when the 
character goes to take the glasses off its head (manual keyframing has to 
occur from then on, and the glasses will still want to follow the head). 
alternativly, the a new scene/Blender file can be created with different 
parenting to continue from where the last left off.

So, why not have some 'hotspots' on objects that act like velcro:   sticking 
with the same example...
there are two hotspots on the sides of the character's head, a hotspot on 
each finger, and four hotspots on the glasses (two on the tips of the bits 
that sit on the sides of the head, and two near the lenses. However, these 
might not be needed?).

The advantage of these hotspots would be that:
keyframes can be created to say when an object is attached to a hotspot and 
when they are not.



Aligorith

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