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Constraints in Blender

Constraints in Blender

- [Narrator] Constraints allow you to build relationships inside of Blender between objects quickly, and break them just as easily. Let me show you. First, we need two separate objects, so let's hit shift a and add a monkey. Good ol' Suzanne, there we go. Next, let's go ahead and click on this cube. Click on this little tab. And let's just go to child of. That's my favorite constraint, that's the one I use for, well, everything. 'Cause sometimes I don't want a parent, an actual object parented to the other thing. I just want to constrain it to the other thing because then I can break it. Let me show you. So with a child constraint on, click this little eyedropper. And then click on Suzanne. Now, it's going to snap over there, but that's okay. You can click on set inverse. And this cube snaps back to its original spot. Now whenever I move this, the cube moves along with it. And the cool thing about this is that…

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