Keeping animation after unparenting

[ayman]

Hi there, can anyone help me solve this problem?:
Scenario: I have a group of objects which is animated... i want to unparent everything from the highest node in the hierarchy, but i lose the effect of the translation/rotation from that node, and so everything looks wrong... how can i unparent, but somehow retain the translational/rotation values?
thanks in advance,
Ayman

PS: please don't ask me why i have to do this, as the answer is very long and technical... i just do

[gmask]

Are you saying that you want to ungroup the objects below the top node but have them retain the same animation or just the current position it was in before ungrouping?

When you ungroup you want preserve position and world set.

Then you may beable to just copy and paste the channels of the top node to the ungrouped lower node.

[orko]

It also matters whether or not Autokey is on at the moment you unparent. If I recall correctly Maya sends keys down the hierarchy automatically if Autokey is on...

-Ok