Mysterious Blend Shape Translation On Y-axis

[timrozek]

Ok, this doesn't quite belong in this forum, but I didn't know where else to put it.

I'm working on a cellular animation that is utilizing blendshapes for the minute stationary movement of objects. For reasons I won't get into, I have 3 seperate objects that I had to "polyUnite" because they have to all be part of the same polyObject.

I had already created all my blendshapes on 1 object (9 shapes in all). I then carefully duplicated each blendshape plus the blend base and united them all in the same order.

So, the blendshape is working fine in terms of the object (it is deforming perfectly). However, as I add the influence of a shape, my initial shape (and it's smooth proxy) translate along the Y-axis to the point in space where it's blend is lying.

I tried to move my pivot points around to see if that was the problem but that didn't change a thing. I deleted all history after Uniting and applying the blend. But I can't seem to figure out a way to keep my base objects from moving to wherever the blendshape is.

Any ideas?

[cycloverid]

Sometimes that can happen if your blend shape doesnt have the right options. Make sure that you have "local" selected for the origin in the blend shape option box. If that doesnt work, try deleting your history before making the blend shapes.

[joojaa]

Or that you do not freze objects before you blend them when you have distrubuted them on the axis. (in general if you dont know what freeze does dont use it, dont use it even when you do)

[timrozek]

Yeah, it turned out that I had frozen transformations. I didn't remember doing it but realized that was the problem. I just moved each object back to 0,0,0 and refroze. That fixed it.