Quick question:
If I set up a driver for some property of some object, I could use the local-space rotation of a bone in an armature as a variable. How do I access that same value in Python? I have seen a number of ways, but I either haven’t been able to figure them out or they haven’t been reliable; I would hope that the solution would not be too difficult.
Maybe these?
http://www.blender.org/documentation/blender_python_api_2_68_5/bpy.types.PoseBone.html#bpy.types.PoseBone.matrix
http://www.blender.org/documentation/blender_python_api_2_68_release/bpy.types.Object.html#bpy.types.Object.convert_space
Well, “convert_space” looks like what I want, but here’s the problem I’ve encountered:
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The matrix I get when I use the object and the appropriate bone as input does not change with the bone’s rotation, no matter what spaces I convert from or to, so trying to animate an object’s location by mapping its x, y, and z-location to the local x, y, and z rotations of a rotating bone does nothing.
Any idea what’s going on?
EDIT: Found it, I think. I wasn’t defining the matrix to convert! But now attempting to do so produces a matrix that does change with time but also crashes Blender.
EDIT-IN-EDIT: And now it doesn’t crash anymore!
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LAST EDIT: And now, I think it’s done. Thank you.
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