Hi all

I’ve been pulling my hair out over this for a while…

Is it possible to link a dummy to a specific vertex so the dummy follows said vertex wherever it travels?

I know about linking a vertex to a dummy via Linked XForm but I require it to be the other way round.

If not maybe you can give me suggestions on how to rig my object…

I need to animate a blackberry bramble growing. I need full control of the stem, leaves, berries and flowers as they will each be animated to various instruments in a piece of music.

I had planned on using a path deform for the stem and having dummies linked to various vertices along the model. The other objects (leaves, flowers and berries) will be linked to these dummies and the flowers and berries will probably have morph targets involved so they can ‘bloom’

Any ideas?

thanks V Much in advance.

Yup - see this thread.

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

Great! thanks… I’ll give that a try.