Is it possible to parent a vertice group to an empty?

Modron · October 26, 2003, 5:29pm

Is there any way to parent a vertice group to an empty?

–Mo

z3r0_d · October 26, 2003, 6:22pm

yeah, it is called vertex parenting and it can be done with a single vertex (location only) or a face (location and rotation)

in edit mode of the object, select those verticies
select the empty with control+rmb
parent with control+p

theeth · October 26, 2003, 6:28pm

z3r0 d: You got it the other way around. He wants to parent the vertice to the empty, not the empty to the vertice (that’s what vertex parent is for).

Modron: The only way to do that is with an armature.

Martin

Modron · October 26, 2003, 6:42pm

Thanks guys.

harkyman · October 28, 2003, 2:22pm

If you HAVE to have it linked to an empty, you would first parent the mesh to an armature, using a single appropriately-named bone to deform the vertex group, then put a copyloc+copyrot constraint on the bone, pointing to the empty.