3dsmax how to remove constrain look at without breaking ?

NAIMA

Hi , I have a hue load of pistons and similar constrained stuff with look at constrain in 3dsmax, Iwanted to now duplicate the object and animate but when I clone I see some look at constrains get messed and if I remove simply deleting by the poly objects they mess up the positions, I tried also resetting , xform and all , nothing worked , so how can I start fresh with the polys like if I never added anything?

musashidan

Tools>snapshot>mesh. This will clone the geometry only, discarding any rigging.

Eric Chadwick

You can also reassign the lookat targets.

NAIMA

I did that, but It messed up position of the look at transforms , reassigning , also for some reason preserve some misalignment .

monster

I don't fully understand your goal. But...

To clone objects with constraints the easiest way is File > Merge the objects into the scene.

To remove all constraints select all the objects and go to Motion Panel > Trajectories > Start Time: 0 End Time: 0 > Collapse Transform > Collapse. This will reset all animation controllers and remove the animation.