Holding an object

[bighop]

Ok, this is driving me nuts. I've been working on this for a few days now:

 

I'm making an introduction for a video my 4th graders are going to make. The animation is just an intro I'm doing, not the whole movie.

 

I watched the video "constraints and compensate mode" prior to doing this:

 

1. I made the two models. The idea is the eraser model is going to carry in models I made of of our textbooks.

2. The Eraser model has the Hash 2001 rig, and it works...that is a whole another story.

3. I made the path, and constrained it to the model of the book.

4. I added the action the model, and it works fine

 

Now as the model walks, the book moves rather odd. Also when the model turns on a path....the book rotates.

 

Do I have to key frame these changes to align the book? Am I missing a step?

[KenH]

Have you got an orient like constraint on the book? Do that the same way as you did the translate to constraint (using the compensate icon).

[bighop]

YES! Thanks Ken....I didn't know I could add more then one constraint! You can layer these things? It worked just like I wanted it to.

 

Thanks!

[KenH]

No layering. The translate to constraint just instructs it to move with it while the orient like constraint tells it to rotate the same way as the Eraser. Pretty self explanitory.

[bighop]

I'm starting to get this now.... I was thinking layers because I was adding more then one constraint.

 

Thanks again.