Here's the problem I have a rocker joint ie like a rocker in a valve head. I
want the two translate objects  to translate back and forth as i rock the
rocker back and forth.

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 Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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I don't think you can do exactly what you want - the way Moray currently
handles IK, you can only set limits on the relative motion of an object
with respect to it's parent.

What I think you want to do is to allow a bar to rotate and have the
arms stay oriented the same way (appearing to slide back and forth).  To
get this effect, you need to counter-rotate the arms as the bar rotates.

It isn't possible to set limits on the orientation/position of an object
in world coordinates.  This type of constraint would be really useful.

Xander

Albert V Barnett 'Vernon' wrote:
> 
> Here's the problem I have a rocker joint ie like a rocker in a valve head. I
> want the two translate objects  to translate back and forth as i rock the
> rocker back and forth.
> 
>  <|><====>
>    |
>  <|><====>
> 
>  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Alexander Enzmann <xan### [at] mitreorg> wrote in message
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> I don't think you can do exactly what you want - the way Moray currently
> handles IK, you can only set limits on the relative motion of an object
> with respect to it's parent.

Yea! I've come to that conclusion. What I've done is just group my
individual piecies constrained so that when I move the parent object all
others follow, and I have to work my way down the hyerarchy and adjust the
individual piecies like you would in stop motion animation. Since you can't
really animate in moray anyway, I'll just try stop motion for awhile.It'
time consuming but Ihave to wait for each frame to render anyway. Thanks.

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