Not sure if I should post here because empties/hooks are more an animation thing but the end result has to do with modeling … so if the mods want me to move this just contact me .
OK my first question post … So i was playing around with hooks/empties, “modifing the underlying geometry in object mode” using NURBS surfaces and using keyframing to create a series of “profiles” of a NURBS circle hoping later to “skin” or “loft” the result after dupliframing them (because if this worked this would make using the current NURBS implimentation sooo very much easier to work with - using the IPO editor to to do something like that amazing “improved modifier stack” demo execept with a contiuous surface and with NURBS no less - this would make organic modeling easier using NURBS - by being able to generate “slices” of a model in “time” and you won’t have to worry about the order of control points and also be able to create smooth IPO curve based transtions on the surface [or sharper ones] by editing the IPO curves of the hooks assign to a control point etc…) but of course after I figured out how to do all this I run into a wall … It seems that dupliframes don’t care that you have hooks/empties “modifing the underlying geometry in object mode” even when you manually keyframe the changes or use a curve/path … It is very weird because when I play the animation or just foward the frames one by one the intended changes to the NURBS circle happens like I want but when I go to frame 1 and set dupliframe on I just get the same unmodified shape and when I go to the frame where I start tomodify the shape all the duplis change to the modified shape … and no this isn’t just for NURBS control points or other curves . I just tried with a simple plane with some hooks and it does the same thing … So my question is has anyone run into this problem ? Is this a bug ? Or did no one change the code to account for hooks/empties with regard to dupliframes ?
Kormiic posted wtih a simmilar problem though he thought it had to do with constraints but he did use an empty with regard to dupliframes …
And just for the record I developed the above method because I made an ass of myself trying to help someone ( especially with regard to to the IPO aspects of it )with an odd miscomprehension of technical terms … and like I said it works but for the dupliframe aspect and I would like to figure out what might be going on here . Any help would be greatly appreciated .