controlling bone length via maxscript

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Well for anyone who wants to do it:

All your doing is driving the x value of the child bone:

give the children a bezier_XYZ controller then:

on the child itself:

$.pos.controller[1].value = slider01.value


From the parent:

$.children[1].pos.controller[1].value = slider01.value

also you can drive it via instancing to:

$.pos.controller[1].controller = $control.slider01.value

Also the distance:

$.pos.controller[1].value = distance a b

or from the length of a spline:

$.pos.controller[1].value = curvelength $line01 1

or hell the angle derived from 3 vectors ala dot:

n1 = normalize (v1 - v2)
n2 = normalize (v3 - v2)

ang = acos (dot n1 n2)

$.pos.controller[1].value = degtorad ang


guess you could do it from the wirecolor of another object or itself too say the red value hmm...

r = $anotherobjectoritself.wirecolor as point3



$.pos.controllers[1].value = r.x


oh and ofcourse not controller space but world space to:

$.pos.controller[1].value = $controller.transform.pos[1]

or you could put it into the parent space's x rotation or something? :shrug: :

$.pos.controller[1].value = (($.transform * $.parent.transform)as eulerangles).x

or:

(quattoeuler ($.transform * inverse $.parent.transform)).x

or umm..

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