Thanks anyway, arran!

--Tim

Using Shift W and Shift E, usually. But I'm selecting the curve, rather than the joint.

OK, I tried selecting the joint and several methods of setting keys--still nothing.

--Tim

The pics are just for illustration. The problem is that I don't seem to be able to animate this transformation.

I expect i'm doing something really stupid--it's been known to happen.

Hi--

I'm trying to animate the curve (as shown in the following pictures) to control the animation of the bound skin. However, no matter whether I set keyframes manually or auto-keyframe, the CVs...

Hi--

I'm trying to animate the curve (as shown in the following pictures) to control the animation of the bound skin. However, no matter whether I set keyframes manually or auto-keyframe, the CVs...

I'm trying to familiarize myself with animating using IK spline handles and I keep getting more confused. Can anyone point me to a simple instruction page or tutorial on the subject?

TIA,

--Tim

A follow-up:

I have no idea what caused the weird extrusion shown in my picture. After I deleted it, I fiddled with the square profile (scaled it), then extruded again. Works fine!

Many thanks...

Excellent!

Or at least it seemed so until I extruded the resulting square curve, and got this thing.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks much!

Wow--

Is that really the only way to extrude a squarish shape? Talk about the long way home!

Anyway, I tried it and got pretty close, but then found that if I rescale the rectangle after...

Hi--

I'm trying to extrude a rectangular shape along a curve in space. However the NURBS square I'm using as the extruded profile behaves weirdly, as shown in the attached file. I did a side by...