[Robotics] IPO drivers within an armature

Benoit Bolsee benoit.bolsee at online.be
Wed Apr 8 10:52:00 CEST 2009


If you want that the slave bone follows exactly the movements of the
master bone, you can use the "Child of" constraint on the slave bone and
make it child of the master bone. 

/Benoit

> -----Original Message-----
> From: robotics-bounces at blender.org 
> [mailto:robotics-bounces at blender.org] On Behalf Of Istvan burbank
> Sent: mercredi 8 avril 2009 2:09
> To: blender Robotics
> Subject: [Robotics] IPO drivers within an armature
> 
> 
> I had actually just started making a robot when this list 
> started, perfect timing!
> 
> As I was sketching out a plan, and making some test rigs I 
> came across a problem: When one bone moves I want another 
> bone in the same rig to move from an IPO driver. The problem 
> is that I can't use a bone from the same object as the bone 
> is in that is being controlled. The solution (I think) is to 
> parent a dummy object to the driver bone, then have the IPO 
> driver be driven by the dummy, however I think this to be 
> rather in-elegant. Are there any solutions/tips people would 
> like to offer?
> 
> ~Istvan.
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