#Multiple "Parent" Links?
03-Jul-92 09:23:45
Sb: #18373-#Multiple "Parent" Links?
Fm: Mike Morrison 71033,127
To: Yost Group 76702,413
I'm not sure if you understood my question correctly. My problem is a
person with both arms linked to a sword, and both arms linked to the body.
If I link the sword to the right hand/forearm/upperarm/body that works
great for one handed swings. But for two handed swings, I can't link the
left arm to the sword or vise versa because the left arm has to stay linked
to the body. This leaves me with the difficult (but not impossible) task of
animating the right arm to follow the left through very complex hierchical
based rotations of swinging the sword. As you can imagine the TCB compounds
the problem since the movement has to be very fluid. Clear as mud?
-MM