Hi guys, I a movie I am working on I want to have my character grab a prop that I imported using 3dxchange 4 pro, now I know how to attach the prop to his hand which is fine however I do not want it attached from the start of the film. Basically I am animating him reaching for the props later in the film, it is at that point I want the prop to attach to his hand, but I currently cannot figure out if or where in the timeline in Iclone 4 pro that a keyframe would be made for this. Is it even keyframed? Or does the attach literally just permanently attach the prop? Is there another way around it if that is the case?

Sorry for so many questions, but help would be valuable.

Hi kvpictures1,
if you want to interact with a prop by picking it up and them put it down, what you want to use the "link" not attach. And i believe the keyframes are under "constrain" tab "link" in the timeline.

As you can see on this animation the pilot is pick up the helmet and then run with it and then putting it on. that was all done animating the "link" function.



Hope this helped,

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Brilliant! That works a treat, thankyou very much for the help:D