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Subject: Re: A bone to pick...
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At 04:50 PM 4/25/96 -0700, you wrote:

>bones, and in order to get the cover, which is a separate object, to
>open correctly, I have to use an array of bones all with Limited Range
>turned ON.  I.e., a ribcage of sorts.
>
>I finished boning the right side of the cover today.  I have sixty-five
>bones so far.  This would have been a whole lot easier if I could have
>simply created one chain of bones, then cloned it twelve times with a
>linear offset.

>Mitch --------------------------->[e-mail]


If you clone the object that contains the bones, the bones will be cloned as
well. Then it's a matter of replacing the object.
In my Wavey animation I had 60 pages to flip. There's no way I was going to
redo five bones for every page.  :)

-Ace


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