Contradiction in parenting

[Martin Starchel]

When
I, like you at the beginning of the Video parent the Body_GEO with the Base_GEO
it makes sense.

Later you parent the Footing_Geo to the Root Bone,

the
Base_GEO to the Base Bone and

the Body_GEO to the body Bone. But right on this
last one I lose my connection between the Body_GEO and the Base_GEO

So, at the end I just find a bloody   mess. What is it you are doing? Even my
Recoil Bone is not moving along any more because (I assume) it is locked in its
location/rotation/scale but on your screen recording it is moving perfectly along….

Please help me

Thank you

the video shows that when the Body_Geo and the Base_Geo are parented (like you parented in the beginning of the video) it follows in the Z Axis. When I grab the Root_Bone everything is connected.

When the Body_Geo is connected with the body bone it misbehaves.

I hope you can follow me and understand me.

Kind regards Martin

https://youtu.be/JvgR_xN_6nU

[Martin Starchel]

the file:

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/jhpudal3l10yob5/Turret_rig_START_2.1.blend?dl=0

[chrislim]

Hey there,

It seems to me from your video that maybe your rig is just missing a parenting relationship between the body bone and base bone. The body bone’s parent should be the base bone in order for the body bone to follow the base bone’s z rotation. I think in your rig, the body bone is currently set as the child of the root bone instead of the base bone.

[Martin Starchel]

Thank you for your help. At some point you can no longer see the forest for the trees.

[Wayne Dixon]

Here’s a video for you Martin.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qikzj7zzlwuxxv6/Turret-fix.mp4?dl=0

[Martin Starchel]

Wayne, thank you for that video and the time you took to make this. I appreciate your effort very much. Thank you. I will go and do this again.

And thank you for keeping up my motivation

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