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Getting the flex modifier movement?
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  • Kivshany
  • Posted: 03 February 2012 02:49 AM
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Hi all, here is the situation I’m in:

I have an object that moves right-to-left on the X axis.
Iv’e applied a flex modifier to the object and disabled “Use Weights”.
So now I have an object that moves with a slight sway/spring behavior.

But what if I want another object to be linked to this object and thus inherit it’s flex behavior?

It seems that the flex modifier doesn’t affect the object’s Gizmo at all, even though it moves the object from it’s original position.

What can be the solution for this?



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  • Krueger
  • Posted: 03 February 2012 04:44 AM

Create a dummy and use an attachment constraint to position it somewhere on the surface of the flex object. Then link the other object to that dummy.



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Thanks Krueger, it works :)

Author: Kivshany

Replied: 03 February 2012 05:52 AM