Parenting question

[cinemafan1980]

Hello! Say that we have a rubik's cube with 3x3x3 cubes. How do I do to parent the cubes? The external cubes will rotate with a different parent depending in what way you rotate them. Can I do this parenting cubes or is there a better way to do this? The only thing I know is that the central cube is the first parent. Thanks...

                                dejardes.

[atyss]

Well I think the answer is in your question.

The trick is to have the centre of each cube placed in the very center of the whole rubicube. You can achieve this by moving the center (CTR mode) to the rubicube center, or by creating a null for every cube, the null placed at the center. So every cube turns perfectly around the center.
Notice that the middle cubes never end up to the corners.

If you animate them, do your rotations in GBL mode, as the center of each cube will point to different directions.

Hope this helps
Bernard Lebel

[cinemafan1980]

Yes, I've put all the centers in the middle of the scene and now I can rotate all the cubes in the rubiks way. I think it's impossible to do a parent system to rotate this kind of cube. Thanks a lot.