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Transform-'constraint' to move a layer to the location of a bone inside another layer?

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 12:39 pm
by mmmaarten
Hi again,

Hope I'm not asking too much. I'm learning Moho Pro hard full time right now (love it!) and challenge myself for that with a personal project I'm currently doing.

For this project I have a seperate layer group (with masking, sublayers, path animations with deforms etc.) which I'd like to move by tracking the location of a bone inside a bone layer elsewhere.

In Blender or Spine I would do this with a (transform) constraint. Of course I did quite some searching on this, but so far without any luck. It seems like the meaning of 'constraint' is slightly different in Moho than it is in Blender and Spine.

Is there anything similar in Moho that could do such a binding?

Thanks!

Re: Transform-'constraint' to move a layer to the location of a bone inside another layer?

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2023 6:47 pm
by mmmaarten
Just a bump because I'm still wondering :)

Re: Transform-'constraint' to move a layer to the location of a bone inside another layer?

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2023 8:14 pm
by SimplSam
There is the Track Bone add-on tool which may help: https://mohoscripts.com/script/mr_track_bone

It has a Bone-to-Bone relationship, so would mean you would need to first associate a Bone layer / Bone with your maneuvered layer.

Re: Transform-'constraint' to move a layer to the location of a bone inside another layer?

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2023 6:34 am
by mmmaarten
SimplSam wrote: Wed Jul 19, 2023 8:14 pm There is the Track Bone add-on tool which may help
Cool! Going to try it out. I'm sure it works great, as these Mr scripts I really enjoy so far!

Thanks for sharing!

Re: Transform-'constraint' to move a layer to the location of a bone inside another layer?

Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2023 5:40 pm
by teienkawi
i found if we make a real small path bind it to the bone you want the group to track then use the folow path tool so the group layer is following that path. you can control things out side the bone layer with bones this way

Re: Transform-'constraint' to move a layer to the location of a bone inside another layer?

Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2023 6:05 pm
by synthsin75
teienkawi wrote: Fri Oct 20, 2023 5:40 pm i found if we make a real small path bind it to the bone you want the group to track then use the folow path tool so the group layer is following that path. you can control things out side the bone layer with bones this way
That's clever!