object mimicing the animation of a 2nd

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On 07/07/2008 at 08:10, xxxxxxxx wrote:

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Hi there!
I got some object running down a conveyor. Then they get picked up by a robot and are being put on another conveyor.

The robot is already animated, the object just needs to get attached to it and then removed again.

The object needs to rotate and change position just like the grabber of the robot does.

Any ideas how I could do that? I have to do by code, since there could be hundrets of objects that need to be moved like that.

My ideas so far:
1st:
The grabber of the robot gets an invisible spline as a childobject, so I can use the align-to-spline-tag to get the object attached to it.
Problem: rotation (with and without tangential)

2nd:
align-to-spline-tag and target-tag
doesnt look exact

3rd:
coffee-tag reading rotation/position of the grabber and setting the same to the object, during the frames the object is attached to the robot
problem: cpuload (i guess)

4th
constraint-tag -> parent
perfect results, just like the object were a child of the grabber
problem: cant get it to work by code, any help on that?
i'll start an extra topic on that

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On 08/07/2008 at 09:55, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Off the top of my head:

You might want to try a constraint chain where a parent constraint is triggered on by distance to a null. So, for example, until the object is in the right spot the parent constraint is 0, and when it reaches the right spot, it gets set to 1. Doing distance in COFFEE shouldn't produce too much load on a few hundred objects, although I'd try to limit that to within a logical area for the shot. (This is a variation on things you've already tried.)

The real question is, though, are all the objects the same or different? If they're all identical, and you don't care about motion blur, you really only need to constrain one. You can do one loop on the animation and then just have all the boxes jump back in time over one frame. As long as the spacing between the boxes is the same you won't need any code at all.

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On 14/07/2008 at 01:20, xxxxxxxx wrote:

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Hi, thanks for you reply, I got it working now with the constraint tag.
Your suggestion doesn't work for me, since I get my data from another program, that simulates the whole scene and my plugin is there to process this data to visualize the scene. So there can be a lot of objects on the way to the robot, that have to wait in line until the robot picks them up. But as I said, everything works fine for now :-)