ActionScript 3.0 :: Access IK Structures Within MovieClips?
Jul 9, 2010
I have a good bit of knowledge regarding OOP underneath my belt, and working with AS3 has so far been pretty awesome. That being said I am having a little bit of trouble working with Inverse Kinematic structures and AS3.Here is my predicament:
So what I would like to have is a number of tentacles on the stage that reach out for the mouse cursor. Through all the tutorials and whatnot that I have sorted through thus far I have gotten it working, however I have only gotten it working when the armatures are placed in the main scene. I have made a tentacle movie clip that has an armature within it and placed a number of those within the scene. I can modify the positions of the endJoints of those tentacle movie clips by gaining reference to the respective armatures using the following [code]...
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