Turning SlowPar into IPO

Support Animation and Rigging
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I’ve animated something which uses the “SlowPar” feature to delay the animation of an object from its parent. I’m using this to get some nice movement in the hair, as I was unable to get the desired result using the softbody method - made everything look rubbery.

The problem is, now that I get to render time, I have to render in one go on a single machine for the effect to work.

Is there any way of baking the SlowPar animation into an IPO so that I can use my render farm?

(I’ve got almost 3000 frames at up to 20 minutes a frame!)

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Ok…
So I’m guessing that’s a “no”.

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and then I found out the section on animation baking under “planned work” on blender.org…
(and this thread on BA…)
I guess that’s the only way of doing it, and I’ll have to wait…

(I’m only talking to myself because someone else might do a search on this in the future…)