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Subject: Parented Spotlights screwing up joints

_dodger opened this issue on Nov 29, 2002 · 6 posts
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_dodger ( ) posted Fri, 29 November 2002 at 6:30 PM · edited Mon, 05 August 2024 at 8:48 AM

I've recently run across a really odd phenomenon... I tried to parent two spotlights to the flame on a torch. Every time I do this, the spotlights somehow end up messing up the joints. The endpoint gets really weird. The bend translator works in reverse. Things get very strange. This was really confusing me for a while because I thought it had something to do with my Gravity Well. But I removed that (and loaded it up anew) and the same problem persists. So I tried using a 'clean' figure -- the one created in New Figures -- and was going to save it and start from scratch -- when to my surprise the prroblems I'd been having tranasferred to that as soon as I added the spotlights to it. Is this a known issue?

_dodger ( ) posted Fri, 29 November 2002 at 8:11 PM

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Well, anyway I came up with a workaround. I have a cube set in the centre of the flame and parented by it and this cube is parenting the two spotlights. It seems to work pretty well now.

lesbentley ( ) posted Fri, 29 November 2002 at 8:59 PM

Stay off that bad acid man!

lesbentley ( ) posted Fri, 29 November 2002 at 9:04 PM

Seriously, this spotlight problem sounds really weird, but the torch is looking great. Glad you seem to have solved your problems. I must check out this strange phenomenon.

lesbentley ( ) posted Fri, 29 November 2002 at 9:31 PM

I tried parenting spotlights to Posette's shoulder and hand, everything worked as expected. From what little I know of Poser I would not have expected a child to affect its parent in any way, unless there was a weld involved. Is this happening immediately you parent the lights, or only after a save to the pallet?

_dodger ( ) posted Fri, 29 November 2002 at 11:12 PM

It was immediately. Like I said, it was really really weird. I don't know if it may have been related to the fact that I had 2 parented by it. But the in-between prop fixed the problem anyway. B^)

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