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Rubberleash

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Rubberleash

Ever wanted to parent something, and un-parent it in a trigger, but smoothly? Or ever wanted to follow two objects at once? Well now you can! If you need to animate parenting using Timeline, you can do it since Timeline v3.1!

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Check out the video to see how it works:


This plugin allows you to define a parent (and a relative position/rotation to that parent), and decide how much you want to follow that parent. Check out the video for a complete example, but here is the typical use case: attach a hand to the cheek in some positions, and then to the hip using an animation pattern transition trigger or a Timeline animation. You can also use it to keep something in someone's hand and let it go when needed.

How to use:

  1. Add Rubberleash to the atom you want to parent
  2. Choose which controller (node) to parent (e.g. "headControl")
  3. Choose which rigidbody you want to parent to / follow (e.g. "object" or "rHand")
  4. Use the "Record current position", this will remember what the object's position is relative to the parent
  5. Change the weight from zero (no parenting) to 100 (full parenting) to decide how strong you want the effect to be

This plugin was initially supposed to allow transitions between animations, but now the feature is built-in in Timeline since v3.1.

Note: The model in the screenshot is Melly.
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  1. Rubberleash v1.1.2

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  2. Rubberleash v1.1.1

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Positive
Version: v1.1.2
Posted:
Another supper cool one.

I use this in a demo of the Sensor plugin (https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/sensor-plugin.49979/), showing a simplistic gravitational pull using Sensor/distance to modify RubberLeash weights.

Pretty sick possibilities with this one!
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Positive
Version: v1.1.2
Posted:
I don't know why I haven't rated this thing yet. This thiny plugin have come in handy on more than one occasion. Thank you! ;)
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Positive
Version: v1.1.2
Posted:
A very useful plugin. When I'm recording dance, the camera tracking allows the lens to tightly follow the moving figure. However, because of the excessively fast tracking speed, the magnitude of dance movements can cause the camera to shake a lot. Therefore, I spent a long time addressing this issue, and this plugin perfectly solves the problem of overly fast tracking. Thank you.
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Positive
Version: v1.1.2
Posted:
Took me a while to figure out where I would use this. Now I use this plugin a lot. Thanks for making this.
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Positive
Version: v1.1.2
Posted:
Great plugin! Opens up a lot of possibilities, specially random object movement by modifying the recorded position parameters using FloatParamRandomizer.
A small improvement would be to have the leash respect position and rotation locks on axes. Currently I'm using a dummy atom in the middle to have these locks, but it's a bit tedious.
Acid Bubbles
Acid Bubbles
Added the the (long) list ;)
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Positive
Version: v1.1.2
Posted:
Dude, instead of a thousand words, one or two specific examples with animated objects are a little more complicated than cubes or balls.
Acid Bubbles
Acid Bubbles
I gave a step by step example lower in the Reviews, but it's much easier to ask questions in Discussion than in Reviews :)
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Positive
Version: v1.1.0
Posted:
Everything you do is magic! (like the song ;)
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Positive
Version: v1.1.0
Posted:
Yes another mandatory plugin from you!
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Positive
Version: v1.1.0
Posted:
Another great free plugin :)
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Positive
Version: v1.1.0
Posted:
THANKS
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