ah yes, i see. how about setting the neutral pose on the constraining object (use current pose) before drag/dropping? May be a workaround for your situation if you can cope with the offset in your fcurves.
On 28 February 2014 16:29, Siew Yi Liang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi patrick: > > Yes, I could make an expression that way, but I want a kind of automatic > way to keep the constrained object at its original position (sort of having > constraint compensation on) while making the expression...other than > manually typing the offset values myself I was wondering if there was a > better way to do this? (As sometimes the offset values won't always be > readily available if there is a neutral pose, other things interfering > etc...) > > Yours sincerely, > Siew Yi Liang > > On 2/28/2014 8:08 AM, patrick nethercoat wrote: > > you can drag+drop fcurve widgets to create a constraint. that way you > choose which axes are affected. > or am i missing? > > > > On 28 February 2014 16:00, Siew Yi Liang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> http://i.imgur.com/1rTjJXd.png >> >> I can only do offsets so far using the standard UI...I've been looking >> through the docs as well for something that can help me out but I haven't >> seen anything yet that relates to this :X >> >> Yours sincerely, >> Siew Yi Liang >> >> On 2/28/2014 7:51 AM, Sebastien Sterling wrote: >> >> isn't it an option in the pose constrain PPG ? >> >> >> On 28 February 2014 16:43, Siew Yi Liang <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello! >>> >>> Had a quick question among all this current hullabuloo, hopefully it's >>> not too silly...I was actually looking for a way to limit constrain to >>> one/two axes in XSI on pos/rot/scale constraints, is there a way to do this >>> in the constraint parameters itself? I can't find any such option... >>> >>> Right now what I'm doing is making a null, using an expression to link >>> whatever axes I want to the first constraining object, and then >>> constraining my 2nd object to that null to get around the problem (because >>> I need the 2nd object to remain in place. I feel like what I'm doing is a >>> little silly though, does anyone use a better way or have I missed >>> something really obvious in the constraint PPG? >>> >>> Been doing some searching around and I couldn't find anything on this... >>> >>> Any help would be appreciated! :D >>> >>> Yours sincerely, >>> Siew Yi Liang >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
