[Bf-interface] Container type object

[Sam Brubaker]

This has tremendous potential for animation and motion graphics.

Imagine adding custom properties to the container object that would drive
properties of the objects nested within it. You could then make numerous
clones of the container but still effect specific properties to make each
one different. You could also have a "time" or "frame offset" property that
would offset the animation of the objects within the container without the
need to create redundant actions.

All of these ideas invoke much higher conversations about data structure
and dependencies that I'm not smart enough to be involved in, but I just
wanted to show that having objects nested instead of flat would be a huge
paradigm shift for Blender.

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Jonathan Williamson <jonathan at cgcookie.com>
wrote:

> Beyond modeling, what other use cases would this have? I'm quite intrigued
> by it but at the same time it seems quite like an upgraded Empty (with
> modifier support).
>
> Jonathan Williamson
> http://cgcookie.com
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Paweł Łyczkowski <
> pawellyczkowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A quick design of a Container type object. This is basically an upgrade
>> to the Dupli-Group system, which is a bit hidden and limited.
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/72vyll452v1ohem/containers_01.png?dl=0
>>
>> Best,
>> Paweł Łyczkowski
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