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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 16:28:04 -0700
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Subject: Help! (bones and objects)
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I posted a message about this yesterday but I don't think it went through
so I'll try again:

I am building an character in Lightwave 3.5 that has eye stalks similar to
a snail (eyes at the end of a tenticle).

I have built the following objects:

a multi-segment cylinder for the stalk
a clam-shell shaped eye-lid
and a sphere for the eye-ball

I would like to move the eye-stalk around like a tenticle using bones - but
at the same time have the eye-lid and eye-ball attached to the end of the
stalk and be able to rotate the eye-ball and blink the eye-lid.

I think I've hit a limitation of the current version of Lightwave.

I have toyed with image maps but they didn't provide the 'look' I wanted.
I've also considered using morph targets (building the eye and stalk
together as one object) but this becomes very cumbersome when trying to do
character animation with hundreds of eye expressions (having the eye-ball
look around for example).

If anyone has any other ideas for attaching an object to the end of a
bone-controlled cylinder I'd love to hear them.

Thanks
Reid.

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