Re: Constrain Object to Enveloped Mesh

Date : Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:42:04 +0200
To : <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
From : "Sandy Sutherland" <sandy(at)refinery.co.za>
Subject : Re: Constrain Object to Enveloped Mesh
You must be inadvertantly adding another 'unseen' point to your cluster - as
here if I make a single point cluster and constrain something to it - it
goes right there!!

S.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Byron Nash" <Byron(at)SNAP5.TV>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:38 PM
Subject: RE: Constrain Object to Enveloped Mesh


> If I constrain to a cluster, the null jumps to the center of the cluster
> instead of the point I would like the null to be. I wonder if you could
> create a cluster for each point of the poly and then do a constrain to N
> points? It would be very tedious to set up.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of peterb
> Sent: Wed 7/13/2005 5:30 PM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: Constrain Object to Enveloped Mesh
>
>
>
>
> > I have not been able to find a good way to do this so far. I've looked
> around a bit but I have the feeling If I knew the right term to call it
> I
> could find how to do it. I need to constrain an object to a specific
> point
> on an enveloped poly mesh. I am using the snapping tools to get a null
> on a
> spot on a poly face. I have tried using a constrain to cluster with
> compensation but it starts offsetting when the envelope moves. How is
> this
> done and what is the proper term for this?
> >
>
> if i understand correctly you should constrain the object to cluster,
> but
> not use compensation
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