Doesn't a parent constraint do all this all ready for you?

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 6:14 PM, notanymike <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying to come with some sort of transform node that can have
> multiple transform matrices influencing it's own translate,rotate,and
> scale attributes, but still allows for control, animation, and
> preservation of the user-intended position of that transform.
> Basically it's a space-switching/dynamic parenting transform.I have
> two ideas for what attributes to create on the transform: Either have
> a compound message attributes or compound matrix attributes that the
> user can add or delete, with an enable and/or weight attribute for
> each added parent. The only two parts I'm stuck on is how to write out
> "when the enable and/or weight attribute is changed, recompute the
> transforms position" in python, and how to re-compute the transform's
> final position after parents have been added/removed from the compound
> attribute. Does anyone have time to help me on this? I'm brand new to
> python, but I'm starting to understand the syntax. It's structure I
> have to learn somehow...
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