Reply To: Mesh to Armature Parenting: “Object without Inverse” and “Clear Parent Inverse” with different results
@waylow Thanks for your answer😀! I’ve done four more tests:
1) If I repeat step 4 with the armature at the world origin, Suzanne doesn’t snap to the armature after “Clear Inverse”:
It seems that the transformations to Suzanne from the intermediate partenting to the cube are taken as an offset that is unaffected by the “Clear Inverse” command.
2) If the intermediate parenting to the cube is skipped and the instructions of step 4 are followed, Suzanne snaps directly to the armature :
3) If Suzanne is placed manually outside the world origin and step 4 is repeated, Suzanne’s distance and direction from the world origin are taken as an offset to the armature:
4) If Suzanne is parented to the armature directly with “Parent without Inverse” then Suzanne’s offset from the world origin is ignored:
Conclusion: “Parent without Inverse” and “Clear (Parent) Inverse” have the same result only if the parented object is located in the world origin. Otherwise “Clear Inverse” will use the parented object’s distance and direction from the world origin as an offset to the armature.