okay sorry. yeah youre right i could use that when deleting history, but in general i'd like to know how to edit which objects a deformer is acting on.

So i've worked out how to show deformer...

Sorry i've not been able to search for the answer to this, its a really basic one.

I have a bend deformer in my scene but if i delete history or convert from poly to subdivs i lose the input...

okay i'm still having problems with this so hopefully someone can help

Here's my scene. I want to strip the selected sectin off gradually. I seperated the selection and placed it using snap to...

thats great thanks thats exactly the effect it want. so the bit that bends is a seperate poly plane? how do you cover the initial seam?

EDIT: Sorry i managed to somehow only read your second...

OKay this is probably a really basic question but here goes. How do you animate vertices and faces if the structure of them changes during the course of the animation?

Example, animating a knife...

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So i'm not actually animating an apple but the concept is the same. I;m actually modelling a type of lathe used to reduce the diameter of metal cylinders. it rotates against a blade that...

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Cheers for the reply but i don't think i made things clear enough. Moving the pivot does not change the angle of the plane around which the object rotates... therefore when i if i move the...

I'm sorry for this one i feel sure it must have been asked before but I'm afraid i can't find it...

All i'm trying to do is rotate the rotation axis if you know what i mean. For example, i have...

so i have a model, bound it to a skeleton, done my animation including a blend shape. Now i come along to texture it, lay out my UVS nicely, photoshop my texture, apply it and everything's ace...
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If for example you were animating a person riding a bike, is there any way to animate one pedal cycle, have it repeat, then move the whole bike/person model seperately?

Basically i'm...