So I’ve got a chain of individual curve objects all being modified by a big curve to wiggle them around. What I need is an object to properly track the top object, currently any form of parenting/constraint I use just follows the origin point of the tip object. I need it instead to follow the visual location of the object. I’ve tried vertex parenting/hooks (which I’m sure used to work) but it still just locks onto the origin point.
Here’s a gif of the set up, the cone needs to lock into the top object when it comes into contact and then track the wobbles as the chain straightens out; http://gyazo.com/d027af0204d272e1c74904fa23e593da
I’m sure I must be missing something obvious, but the curve modifiers have shifted the chain far from the origin points so it’s proving troublesome.
If I understood right, an object (B) should go wherever the vertices of another object (A) go (deformed through a curve modifier).
What should work:
In edit mode, assign the desired vertices of object (A) to a vertex group. Go back into object mode.
Move object (B) to where it’s supposed to be according to the vertices of (A).
Give (B) a Copy Location constraint, select (A) as the target and the according Group as the Vertex Group.
Now (B) should follow wherever the vertices of (A) go.
Unfortunately you can’t assign vertex groups to curve objects otherwise that would’ve worked perfectly. Instead I’ve vertex parented a bit of the curve to a mesh, and then that mesh controls the motion of a bone that modifies the tip so it all moves in sync…it’s not pretty, but it works
