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From: Craig Graham <c_graham@hinge.mistral.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Ho Hum....back on it again: Progress Report RsdANIM (next version)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 10:56:41 -0800
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Olaf Grau wrote:

> Hi Graig, Sorry for disturbing you....
> But I've got an big Problem with you're RSDANIM V1.51(For you it's a really
> small Problem, I'm sure...): How do I attach the selected Bone to the
> selected Polygongroup ?

Ok.....

1) Draw your skeleton. Use the "Move Joint" tool in several different
projections
    (top, front, side) to make sure the bones are in the right place.

2) Select a bone.

3) Select some vertices / polygons (doesn't have to be a group, just select a
few
    vertices to see the effect).

4) Click on the "Attatch to Bone" icon.

Sorted, the selected vertices / polygons are attatched to the bone.

> I played along with you'r "Pgirl" demo, from you'r WEB Site with is already
> been "boned"
> The First Step I did is to select an Polygongroup, then I switched off the
> view of the Model (It's easier then to select a Bone...), then I selected
> the bone inside the Polygongroup, and after this I pressed the "Attach to
> Bone" Button in the Top Toolbar of
> RSDAnim. When I move the bone the attached Polygongroup should be move
> automatically with the bone (I think...), But it didn't......

Follow 1..4 again and it will work.

> What went wrong ???? (May be I'm too silly to Work with RSDANIM....)
>
> The Next Question: How can I delete a bone from an skeleton ????

Wait for v1.6 (Deleting bones only works on the new version) and:

i. Select Tools->Bone->Delete
or
ii. Write an R-Script macro:
        function DeleteBone()
        {
            var m=new RSmodel(1);          // Get the current edit model
            var b=m.GetSelectedBon();      // Returns an object of type RSbone

            m.DeleteBone(b);                     // delete the currently
selected bone
            m.PutEditFrame();                    // put the model back into
RsdANIM
        }

Or, edit the .bones file and remove the bone by hand....

> with Regards
>
>  Olaf   (A Yaroze Programmer from Germany)

Craig.