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Hello !

As part of a project I need to do an animated ant.
The model has 6 legs. Every leg has its own bones-system. Each leg has
its own dummy for animation. In addition to that 5 of the legs interact
to one leg via expressions. So I can do a complete walk-cycle by only
moving one dummy. This works great so far. I have connected the six
bones-systems to one terminator-bone. The terminator-bone is linked with
the body of the ant.
What I want to do is move the ant by moving the terminator-bone and have
the walk-cycle go on. I can't get it to work because the dummys don't
follow the terminator-bone. If I link them to the terminator-bone the
walk-cycle doesn't work anymore.

I know this sounds confusing but I don't really know how to explain it
the easy way. Basically what I want is the object to move and walk.

Any solutions ?

Thanks,
        Andre

You may be able to do something similar by using an expression to keep the
root bone (or linked dummy) central  to the legs in a similar way to Fred
Ruffs leg expression tutorial
I think the address is
www.ruff-stuff.com

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Quote:>Hello !

>As part of a project I need to do an animated ant.
>The model has 6 legs. Every leg has its own bones-system. Each leg has
>its own dummy for animation. In addition to that 5 of the legs interact
>to one leg via expressions. So I can do a complete walk-cycle by only
>moving one dummy. This works great so far. I have connected the six
>bones-systems to one terminator-bone. The terminator-bone is linked with
>the body of the ant.
>What I want to do is move the ant by moving the terminator-bone and have
>the walk-cycle go on. I can't get it to work because the dummys don't
>follow the terminator-bone. If I link them to the terminator-bone the
>walk-cycle doesn't work anymore.

>I know this sounds confusing but I don't really know how to explain it
>the easy way. Basically what I want is the object to move and walk.

>Any solutions ?

>Thanks,
> Andre

Thanks, that's one step ahead.
Unfortunately the dummys of the other legs still don't follow as they
should.

Greetings,
        Andre

Can you post the file?
Will help to understand.