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What does the unlink dummy node do?

by Andre Poston · in Artist Corner · 02/11/2005 (2:40 pm) · 1 replies

I have been trying to figure out why exactly this node is needed.

This document lists many of the nodes but unlink is not mentioned.
http://fosters.realmwarsgame.com/tools/DTS_Nodes.pdf

This document has you create the unlink node when creating a character model and then has you attach the cam node to it.
http://www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=4967

I know what the cam node does, but why does it need to be attached to unlink?

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02/11/2005 (5:16 pm)
IIRC, the unlink node unlinks anything attached to it from the heirarchy. This way the cam node can be parented to the head node (for animation purposes) without getting exported as part of the bone heirarchy.