Hi.  I just agreed to do a little project for someone, only to realize I have no idea how to do it.  :)  I need to create a scene in which a woman is walking her dog down a sidewalk.  1st, I've got to make the leash prop they want me to use posable in the Setup Room, and then parent it to the dog.  I can do that.  But what then?  Since the prop collar will be parented to the dog's neck, I assume there's no way to "parent" the other end to the woman's hand.  And I was thinking it would be good if the flexible leash part were just that, flexible, which would seem to mean I need to make it a dynamic cloth.  Can I make only part of the prop dynamic?  I realize this is a multipart problem, but any advice would be very greatly apprreciated.

Quick answer is, you can parent your walker's hand to the prop and the prop to the dog's neck without too many difficulties. And you can create a hybrid conforming/dynamic prop by selecting a single 'bodypart' (as it were) to use in the cloth room - in your case, the lead between the dog and walker.

I think I would choose to make the dog's neck parent to the leash and then parent it to the walker's hand rather than the other way round, though - in my head, having the dog as the overall parent would make it feel like the dog was taking the human for a walk...

... but then again, I've seen that happen more than once! :)

JonTheCelt

Quote - in my head, having the dog as the overall parent would make it feel like the dog was taking the human for a walk...

... but then again, I've seen that happen more than once! :)

Used to have a St. Bernard that did that! She walked me instead of the other way around!