Need Some Advise With Switching Constraints

[treon]

hi

i've got a weapon which is parent constrainted to a locator at the waist of a character
my problem is that i want to make another parent constraint with the weapon and the hand, so is there like any way to switch off the first constraint and turning on the second one? (which makes it looks like a quick switch of position)

or

do i have to do it the manual way of deleting and making a new constraint?

[uiron]

just use one constraint with two hands as influences; then just fiddle with target weights - e.g., you got weights "left hand" and "right hand", then setting weights 100 and 0 will put weapon in left hand, and 0, 100 will put into right hand.

[treon]

QUOTE(uiron @ 12/01/08, 01:59 AM) [snapback]296104[/snapback]
just use one constraint with two hands as influences; then just fiddle with target weights - e.g., you got weights "left hand" and "right hand", then setting weights 100 and 0 will put weapon in left hand, and 0, 100 will put into right hand.

i did try that and it works but i want to have a third option which is to let the sword animate by itself, unattached to both hand or waist
when i set both weights to 0, it still reminds stuck to its original position

[molemansd7]

do a search in the mel scripts section for ZV Parent Master...its a neat script for changing parents.

[animatix]

QUOTE(Treon @ 12/03/08, 05:30 PM) [snapback]296311[/snapback]
i did try that and it works but i want to have a third option which is to let the sword animate by itself, unattached to both hand or waist
when i set both weights to 0, it still reminds stuck to its original position

Make another locator and call it worldObject or something, and parent it to the master control. then make another parent constraint to the locator. when you want to animate just the sword switch it to this locator and animate the locator. thats quick and dirty way of doing it... i think, just off the top of my head.