[Bf-funboard] Reasoning behind child - parent coordinates

[Gatis Kurzemnieks]

Jeffrey, here is a quick and dirty addon with some other helper tools,
including parenting.
http://www.kurzemnieks.com/hierarchy-helper-tools-blender-addon/
Hope it helps!

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 5:11 PM Jeffrey <italic.rendezvous at gmail.com> wrote:

> I like this idea. Maybe even a checkbox in the relation properties?
>
> Gatis, could I perhaps get a copy of your parent script to play with?
> I'm not one with the Python interpreter yet.
>
> On 04/20/2015 02:36 AM, Gatis Kurzemnieks wrote:
> > How about adding a new parenting method like 'Make Parent without
> Inverse'
> > but one that keeps the child objects offset from parents center and sets
> it
> > to local transform of the child? Basically - a standard parenting
> operation
> > like in other software. It's just quite hard to reproduce this behavior
> now
> > without such command.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:14 AM Alberto Torres <kungfoobar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> @Alberto Torres, quite sure all values relating to parent/child
> >>> relationship are accessible via Python. we only miss utility functions
> >>> to easily access them.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I calculated them using the local and world matrices of the object and
> the
> >> parent. Is there a better way?
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