Particle Instancer / Shift With Original Object

[fransua]

Hi there

I am trying to anmate a bunch of butterfly.

Two ways:

1. I have one object for each wing of the butterfly and I animate to rotation of each one.

2. I have one object, and i used a deformer to create the bend.

In both case, when I instanciate the particle, there is a shift between the particle and the instance object (even if I have frozen the transformations).

My second concern is when i used the nimble plugin to bake the animation (because I need to do render vector).

In the first case, only one wing is moving correctly (and curiously the nimble plugins assign the correct position for the new object created). In the second case, the nimble plugins doesn't work. (Does it mean the surface has to be planar ?).

Well, that's it folks.... hope it can help one day....

[joojaa]

QUOTE(fansua @ 12/17/08, 12:42 AM) [snapback]297199[/snapback]
In both case, when I instanciate the particle, there is a shift between the particle and the instance object (even if I have frozen the transformations).

The particle position is smack in the center of the objects space, the pivot has nothing to do with whare the mathematical origin is. So when you do a freeze the parents cordinatespaces center becomes the new center of the object.

I really wish people wount freeze things as it allmost never is neccesery. And allmost never is what most people think it is. You simply cant see everything in the 3d world, about half of all the data you have is invisble in nature. But teh center of the object can be displayed, by enabling the display handle under the transfom and setting the psotion of it to 0 0 0