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XAQT

04-06-2003, 09:41 PM

Hello,

I was looking for a way to link 2 object to each other in a way that when I transform object 1, object 2 follows, but when I transform object 2, 1 will follow.

I wrote a script that did this quite nice, but I couldn't animate it.

Dave Black

04-06-2003, 11:54 PM

Can't you just use an attachment/link controller?

Animate each of thier parent's over time.

-3DZ

:D

XAQT

04-07-2003, 09:54 AM

You can't attach a child to it's parent :(

I've made a simple scene do demonstrate what I want. If you've opened the file, you should run the maxscript included. It's a bad way of writing maxscript, but it is just intended to show what twoway link I want to accomplish.

twoway_contraint_1.zip (http://www.nextbuilding.com/cgtalk/twoway_constraint_1.zip)

Dave Black

04-07-2003, 12:49 PM

The heck you can't.

You should be able to animate the link between the 2 objects, but each object must have the link contraint.

Try it, really.

-3DZ

:D

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