Subject: Re: Bones!!!!!! 
Date: Thu, 19 May 94 23:42:00 +0200
From: dsan@cindy.ct.se (Dan Santos)

In a message of 18 May 94 Mark Thompson wrote to me:

 MT> From Mark Thompson <mark@westford.ccur.com> To   IML
 MT> <imagine@email.sp.paramax.com>

 >> I have not used Lightwave, but just talked to a user last week who  said
 >> that bones are assigned an area of influence, which is much less
 >> specific than imagine's subgroup-to-bone assignment method.

 MT> This is one of the drawbacks of the current LW bones implementations. If
 MT> you have an object that has an arm hanging down at its side, moving a
 MT> bone that is placed in the arm will create a drag on the object's side
 MT> as well (although the force is diminished over the distance from the
 MT> bone).

 Is Allen aware of this, oops silly question :), do you know if he will fix the
problem in time for the next release?

/Dan (dsan@cindy.ct.se)


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