[Bf-funboard] Parenting-Hotspots

[Matt Ebb]

On 9 Dec 2004, at 4:27 PM, J L wrote:

> 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.

Try using Copy Location constraints instead of parenting. Then you can 
keyframe the influence Ipo of the constraints between 1 and 0.

http://www.blender.org/modules/documentation/htmlI/x7484.html
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 2355 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://projects.blender.org/pipermail/bf-funboard/attachments/20041209/402804c7/smime.bin