Questions tagged [parent]
When modeling a complex object, such as a watch, you may choose to model the different parts as separate objects. However, all of the parts may be attached to each other. In these cases, you want to designate one object as the parent of all the children. Movement, rotation or scaling of the parent also affects the children.
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How do I "parent" objects?
I'm looking for a way to have two separate objects be connected, so that when I move the first object the second one will move also. The term parent is used, but how do I parent a object?
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Does a child object inherit the matrix from the parent?
When you create a hierarchy with nesting like so:
Does Circle inherit the properties from the parent matrix? Or is first the matrix of ...
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Removing dotted assist lines?
When I open the file directly from my desktop, these assist lines don't seem to show. But when I Append it, these random dotted lines appear that seem to point to its parented object. Is there any way ...
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How to make object A a parent of object B via Blender's Python API?
I have two objects each of them hold in a variable. Now I want to parent them so object A is the parent of object B. How can I ...
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Clear Parent and Keep Transformation
Add a Plane, Rotate (here on Z axis 45°) ...
Add an Empty, Parent the Plane to the Empty Ctrl+P and Scale the Empty
(here scale along X axis 0.5)
The Plane transformation as expected ... but already ...
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Bone Heat Weighting: failed to find solution for one or more bones, multiple solutions attempted
I am attempting rig a model using Automatic Weights.
I am getting an error: 'Bone Heat Weighting: failed to find solution for one or more bones'
I have attempted the following fixes:
Confirmed there ...
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How to duplicate parented objects as one object
I have parented the smaller cube to the larger cube, to make child parent link. I want to be able to duplicate both objects, by selecting them as an entity, and not selecting both of them to duplicate ...
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Blender parent problem
I used Blender2.79 and I think I just find the problem.
I have two objects and I want to make parent relations to each other,
when I used CTRL + P, the child's transform location still relate to ...
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Children of parent maintain current position after parent removed?
I have several objects set as children of a parent object. Whenever I remove the parent object (an empty in this case), the position of all of the children are skewed. I'm guessing that this is do to ...
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Is there a way to select the children of a parent object?
Say I have a set of objects parented to another object, for the sake of this example say they are parented to an empty. If I have the empty selected, is there a way of quickly selecting all the ...
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How do I parent another object only to a specific bone?
I have hands model which I rigged, now I want the gun to be parented to the left hand, where the problem occurs as left hand is the same object with the right hand, so by parenting the gun to the bone,...
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Pinpoint the area light to object
I've made an object and put an area light on scene.
I want that area light points toward the object.
I tried to put constraint and PARENT TO OBJECT but that doesn't rotate the light in that specific ...
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The Outliner doesn't show Parent-Child relations in blender 2.8
I have a pretty big scene in blender. In v2.79 the hierarchy looks like this in the Outliner:
However, with 2.80 Beta, it looks like in the screenshot below. The only indicator that we get for "...
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Keyframe toggle visibilty for child object using parent object in outliner?
I have a parent object with over twenty child objects. I want these objects to be keyframed to toggle viewport visibility & restrict rendering on and off at a certain points in the timeline, using ...
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Vertex Parented empties become offset after Set Origin to 3D cursor?
As you can see on this gif, I have a mesh composed of a bunch of vertices (divided in ~15 parts). Each vertex as an empty parented to it.
It's only when I finished the parenting part that I realised ...
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