Subject: Questions about states for grouped objects
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 12:30:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Wesley Jacocks <wes@pinn.net>

I have a problem.  I am trying to create an animated oil pump type 
grouped object with a piston, a center axis of rotation, and a lower axis 
of rotation like shown below:

          3----------4-----------5
          |          |           |
          |          |           |
          2          |           |
            1       |           |
                     |           |
                     |           6
                     |           |

Axis 1 is allowed to rotate.
Axis 2 is attached to axis 1.
Axis 3 can move.
Axis 4 can only rotate.
Axis 5 can move.
Axis 6 can move vertically only.

Using the constraints, I can get the various parts to operate properly.  
If I rotate Axis 1, the whole assembly operates like a pistoning oil pump.
I have then tried saving different orientations as individual states.
When I try to set the group/objects to a particular state, the whole 
group ends up rotating and not following the constraints set up.  I seem 
to be sooo close, but I cannot get the states to work right.  Can anyone 
help me here?  The answer to this problem may need to be very specific 
because I have tried may different states options already.

Thanks



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