Parenting

Carnivore · October 8, 2003, 9:21am

Is there a way to erase all parental links in an instant?

thank you.

Fligh · October 8, 2003, 9:47am

Ctrl-X, unfortunately you loose everything else with it.

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Carnivore · October 8, 2003, 10:10am

Well then is there a way to erase parental links at all? Except for messing in the OOPS… I really can’t make any sense of it…

harkyman · October 8, 2003, 10:28am

Have you tried selecting parent and child and hitting alt-p?

Carnivore · October 8, 2003, 11:11am

ooh thanks, that works a feature i had no idea about

intrr · October 8, 2003, 1:52pm

[!]

Does AKEY, alt-p not work?

Fligh · October 8, 2003, 3:27pm

Only on the active layer.

I admit I didn’t think of it though because my whole default lighting setup is parented to the active camera (and I ignored the possibility that he didn’t know Alt-P)

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theeth · October 8, 2003, 4:25pm

You mean selected layer, right? There’s a difference between active layer and selected layer, although the only way to know this is by creating an object. A (better) visual representation would be good.

Martin

Fligh · October 8, 2003, 4:38pm

Yes. Selected layer(s). Thanks!

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Carnivore · October 9, 2003, 7:29am

Okay. Another one - if I add a constraint “track to OB:Empty”, then parent the empty to a mesh, the object will no longer follow the Empty, but the mesh’s centre. How can I avoid this? I need the mesh’s center to be where it is.

[hint]S68, piston tutorial, mech[/hint]

theeth · October 9, 2003, 8:07am

works correctly here… :-?

Martin