Constraint to ik handle problem

[ezra]

i am trying to get an ik robotic arm to pick up and place objects at "start" and "finish" locators. When i try to point and orient constrain my ik handle to the locators i get an error message saying, " Could not add constraint or connections". This only seems to be a problem once the ik handle has been keyframed. Am i going about this in a silly way or is there a better way? Some help would be much appreciated.

[goggle]

Well, sort of.

Any object can only take position information from one source. Since you've already keyfremed this IK handle it's taking it's position information from the animation curves you created.

Usually for picking things up I parent a locator to the end of the joint and then contrain things off of that locator.

For getting your robotic arm to go to specific 'start' and 'finish' locators I think you're best bet is to key them at those places. This should be easy to do using 'point snap'.

Unless I've misunderstood the problem entirely.

-James

[dogcemetery]

Thanks James you helped me out!

[dogcemetery]

Even if it is 16 years later!