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I'm trying to create a bone and parent an empty to its tail, and constrain the bone to point toward the camera. See this pastebin. I've figured out how to create the bone and even create the constraint, but don't know how to parent the focus object (the empty) to the bone's tail.

I've read the older SO question on this, but that code doesn't work anymore since it's 2.7-based.

Here's my code so far:

def link_object(object):
  view_layer = bpy.context.view_layer
  view_layer.active_layer_collection.collection.objects.link(object)

armature = bpy.data.armatures.new('Armature')
armature_object = bpy.data.objects.new('Armature', armature)
link_object(armature_object)


Make it active


bpy.context.view_layer.objects.active = armature_object


Enter edit mode


bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode='EDIT', toggle=False)


Add a bone


bone = armature_object.data.edit_bones.new('focusBone')
bone.head=(0,0,0)
bone.tail=(0,0,1)


...


#Exit armature editing; this allows bones to be used in Pose/Object modes
bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode='OBJECT', toggle=False)


Create constraint: bone looks at camera


constraint = bpy.context.object.pose.bones['focusBone'].constraints.new('DAMPED_TRACK')
camera=bpy.data.objects['Camera']
constraint.target=camera


Create the empty to serve as a focus target


focus_obj = bpy.data.objects.new('focusObj', None)
focus_obj.location=(0,0,1)
link_object(focus_obj)


QUESTION: how to parent the focus_obj to the tail of the bone?
GaryO
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  • Please post any relevant code into question. See https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/112776/parent-object-to-a-bone-and-object-becomes-offsets-how-do-i-prevent-object-from – batFINGER Oct 27 '20 at 18:15

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