I tried bones in V2 and I hit something like 5 bugs with it. Very very annoying experience. I haven't yet tried the same experiments with V4.

From what I remember.

• Undo is not your friend, it will make things worse and you won't be able to recover from the undo so don't use it. In my case I make a bend with some bones. Don't like it. Undo, and what do you know, the constraint settings were undone but the mesh didn't change. Changing the constraints again causes the mesh to deform from it's current possition. Return to default/start state doesn't help as the constraints are totally fubarred at that point.

• Removing a constraint once it's given a value, I.E. the mesh had been deformed would cause the mesh to stay where it was instead of returning to a state where there wasn't a constraint.

• Sometimes, often, after a whole bunch of bending and posing the return to default/start state doesn't return it to the default state but a wonky one, not the one you started with.

• One of the constraints didn't work right at all in a particular setting (there is one with an order of op in the rotations but the first two were treated the same even though they weren't the same and I don't think it updated the mesh properly)

It's a problem with C v2. Not you. I've hit the same frustrations. I gave up after starting over again and again, rebuilding the skelleton again and again, cursing and waving a certain finger at the screen again and again... It just isn't there in V2.

Message edited on: 01/21/2005 17:35