Target Poses

Advanced Topic Skip if you’re new, explore when you’re ready.

Big idea

Target Poses, Pose Blends, and Pose Mixers let you build advanced mechanisms by blending predefined poses.

All of the joints and associated motors in Bottango so far are fairly straightforward mechanisms. As a motor rotates, so too directly does the linked joint in a 1:1 ratio. And for a lot of mechanisms, that’s more than enough!

What if you want to keep multiple motors in lockstep with each other, such as the sets of motors that control a pair of eyelids, without having to animate each motor identically?

Or what if you have a more advanced mechanism, such as a neck on a u-joint, that tilts and rotates on different axes shared by multiple motors?

For advanced mechanisms, Creating Target Poses and pose blending are powerful tools in Bottango.

Note

For users who have invested in learning them, target poses are a clear favorite. Target poses and pose blending may be one of the most powerful tools in the current Bottango suite of features.