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Do your characters look like they are wearing roller skates or running across ice? Do you want to have your light swing around with your camera for a few frames and then move on? How are you handling Gimbal Lock? Lock and Key can solve these problems for you. This dynamic parenting utility allows parenting of any LightWave item to any other item on a per-frame basis.
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Currently available for DEC Alpha and Intel platforms.

  • Plug-in to LightWave 3D, works from within Layout!
  • Allows any item (Object, Bone, Light or Camera) to be tracked to any other item.
  • 'Reparent' items on a FRAME-BY-FRAME basis.
  • Create walking and running cycles for characters without their feet sliding or sinking through the ground.
  • Lock bones together to eliminate the problem of GIMBAL LOCK!
  • Use an item's child to determine its position and rotation.
  • And more!