vertex parenting supported in verge?

I still admire the concise nature of that answer kdv… and its ability to end discussions.

@Yuri and team: Is vertex parenting something that is maybe considered for future versions?
Or is there maybe a way to read out the position of a single vertex in mesh?

I’ve got the situation where I need to track the position of a vertex within a shape key morphed object. Since the interpolation between shape keys is linear, I can replicate the path of a vertex with an animated empty and use its position – but that’s one ugly workaround, and not helpful in matters of performance.

Also true… :)

Yeah, I haven’t actually tested bones – it’s about the meshed rope / cable / hose and physics I asked once about – I opted for a simplified approach, shape keys instead of physics.
It’s less fancy than physics but much more stable an controllable. (It’s still madness to set them up, but they work).

With bones… I read bendy bones aren’t supported, that would be an awful long IK chain so that the cable bends without seeing the segments or bones. But you are right – if it works, it would solve my problems regarding parenting in an instant! I guess I’ll try that.

See? Your answer was longer than two letters it already helped. :D

Mikhail Luzyanin wrote:

Unfortunately, it’s not supported and we have no plans for that.

Hi Mikhail – thank you for clarifying this – I will try the solution with multiple bones and IK, like you and kdv suggested.

Oh wait, hang on… I overread “coding” – is there any information available on that, or which particular part of the api can / could be used? I actually thought of retrieving the world coordinates of a specific vertex from the mesh data (allthough I don’t know if it’s worth performance-wise).

• This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by Thomas Fabini.

Bones can easily replace practically all shape keys )))