Parenting cameras to soft body?

[FilippS]

How can you parent a camera (or any rigid object) to a soft body?
Parenting seems to work only for rigid objects, is there a workaround for soft bodies?

[tsn]

Hi FilippS,

By default that's not possible, because the position of deformable objects is calculated in a different way. When you look at the soft body's position values during simulation you will see that the XYZ remain constant.

The only workaround is a script. The script calculates the soft body's centre of gravity by using the body's vertex positions. The centre of gravity is than transferred to a Null object's position, while the camera itself is parented to the Null. I've attached an example scene for you. To see the script press Ctrl/Cmd + 2 (Simulation Flow) and take a look at the script in the "FramesPost" section. All you have to change is the name of the object you want the camera to follow.

camera_follows_softbody.zip

Cheers,
Thomas

[FilippS]

Great, this works perfect - thank you!

[hmercado]

Hi,
Could you please post the scene or the script for the Learning Edition?

Thanks

[Alex]

This one should work: