CGTalk - Simple problem...

Kryhs

05-15-2005, 08:03 PM

I'm very new to Maya and 3d animating in general. What I'm trying to do is animate a sealion bouncing a ball on his nose. The modeling and skeleton work is all done and no I am animating. (This will be sort of hard for me to explain) I made the ball be parented to the nose of the seal, when I move a cluster node for the seal and he bends down the ball follows him. The problem is once it goes down it won't come up unless I manually move it, and that just makes it be off in another frame. So what happens is:

I set keys for the seal and ball
I bend the seal down and set a key for him only, but the ball follows him (like I want it to)
I bend the seal back up to set another key and the ball doesn't follow. It just stays where I set the last key.

What am I doing wrong?

Edit: Another thing is that the balls node stays with the sealions node just fine, just the ball visually isn't there.

jgibz

05-15-2005, 10:29 PM

I don't know what's causing your problem, but perhaps it would be better to use constraints instead of parenting.

You can constrain the ball to both a node near the nose, and a node off in space, like a locator. Then you can animate the weights of both the constraint on his nose and the constraint in the air.

Dichotomy

05-17-2005, 05:28 PM

why dont you just parent the ball under the cluster instead of the nose?

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