Linking objects

Hi guys… me again !

I have a little ball (UV Sphere) which I’d like to add Feet to, to make him walk.

*Note: I do not actually want him to have legs, just feet so the body (ball) is hovering a little above them

Ideally I’d like to be able to ‘drag’ the Ball and have the feet ‘walk’ automatically, so if I just animate the Ball ‘moving’ from position X to Y it looks like he’s walking. Does that make sense at all ? I don’t think I’ve explained it very well :frowning:

Basically in 3D Studio you can tell one object to react to another object. So for example if ‘move’ one object vertically upwards (Translate along Z-Axis) the other object might Rotate about it’s X-Axis (for example).

Is anything similar available in Blender please ?

Or is there a preferred method of animating a walk cycle so it doesn’t need to be done manually for every single step ?

Many thanks for your help,
Matt

http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Advanced_Stride_suppor.720.0.html

FANTASTIC !!!

z3r0_d (hope i pronounced that right !? ) i love you !! it’ll take me a while to figure that lot out (i’m a bit slow) but it all looks perfect :smiley:

thank you thank you thank you !