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LeeEagle

05-06-2007, 03:06 PM

Hey guys,

I have a general question and excuse me if it is a stupid one..

I have a mail box that I have built, this mail box contains 3 main bones, I want to animate the mailbox as though it is breathing what do I need to do? create a dummy and link the middle bone to it? Link them all? No matter what I don it doesn’t seem to come out right, any thoughts on the matter would be highly appreciative

Piotrek255

05-06-2007, 11:32 PM

i wouldnt use bones, i would link constrain the mailbox to the pole, then add a bend modifier to the pole with center set slightly up , then bend the pole back with the mailbox animated with some modifier, for example create the breath-in look of the mailbox, and use morph modifier. there are also other ways to do that kind of animation, as i wrote before, i wouldnt use bones, but that's just me.

good luck

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