Transform-'constraint' to move a layer to the location of a bone inside another layer?

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Transform-'constraint' to move a layer to the location of a bone inside another layer?

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Hi again,

Hope I'm not asking too much. I'm learning Moho Pro hard full time right now (love it!) and challenge myself for that with a personal project I'm currently doing.

For this project I have a seperate layer group (with masking, sublayers, path animations with deforms etc.) which I'd like to move by tracking the location of a bone inside a bone layer elsewhere.

In Blender or Spine I would do this with a (transform) constraint. Of course I did quite some searching on this, but so far without any luck. It seems like the meaning of 'constraint' is slightly different in Moho than it is in Blender and Spine.

Is there anything similar in Moho that could do such a binding?

Thanks!
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Just a bump because I'm still wondering :)
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There is the Track Bone add-on tool which may help: https://mohoscripts.com/script/mr_track_bone

It has a Bone-to-Bone relationship, so would mean you would need to first associate a Bone layer / Bone with your maneuvered layer.
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SimplSam wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2023 4:14 am There is the Track Bone add-on tool which may help
Cool! Going to try it out. I'm sure it works great, as these Mr scripts I really enjoy so far!

Thanks for sharing!
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i found if we make a real small path bind it to the bone you want the group to track then use the folow path tool so the group layer is following that path. you can control things out side the bone layer with bones this way
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teienkawi wrote: Sat Oct 21, 2023 1:40 am i found if we make a real small path bind it to the bone you want the group to track then use the folow path tool so the group layer is following that path. you can control things out side the bone layer with bones this way
That's clever!
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