Pierre said:Hi again ;-)
Every time I re-open my project, the position of the object relative to its Smart folder is lost !!! :evil:
Anything I'm doing wrong ?
Pierre said:In Box_instance.jas, you may align the position of the "box" with the position of "Smart Folder". That is both at (1,1,1). Save the file, everything look fine, you may think that "box" and "Smart Folder" are aligned for ever.
Now, you close the file Box_instance.jas and re-open it. What can you see ?
The "box" and "Smart Folder" are no longer aligned. Actually, the position of the box is reset to its position in box.jas relatively to "Smart Folder" position.
Why are you using smart folders to refer to a .jas file? No wonder Cheetah's acting strange.box.jas is a box
Box_instance.jas is an instance of the box (The Smart Folder refers to the file box.jas)
Name it something completely different I guess.The question : how to de-reference an object ?
Support for drag and drop of object within the transformation hierarchy without changing their global position. Just hold the SHIFT key pressed during the drag and drop and the global position of the object won't changePierre said:Andrew, What is the Shift-key supposed to do here ? I have tried it but I could not see its effect from not holding it.
fused said:Why are you using smart folders to refer to a .jas file? No wonder Cheetah's acting strange.
fused said:Name it something completely different I guess.
Andrew
What is your intended final outcome for the project?"it" being the "Box" in box.jas
That should do the job for the second instance but it also means that the animation for the first instance will be lost.
Shall we conclude that either you start right away with Smart Folders or you don't use them (for a give file).
Pierre said:- Play the animation... the Smart Folder position is (0,0,0) but C3D remembers the position of the former "Box" folder and applies it to the instance "Box" of box.jas
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- Still in Box_instance.jas, create a new Smart Folder called "Box 2" which refer to the file box.jas as well.
- Play the animation... the former Box folder animation is applied to both instances of box.jas (the one in "Box" and the on in "Box 2" Smart Folders).
p*
there is no way to pass the animation parameters from the object to the smart folder ( ? ).