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I'm using Pitchipoy meta rig and have come across instances where I need to parent an object or objects to a bone - I can't be the only one. Every time I do I get a latency issue where the child will lag behind the transform of the parenting bone which gives and undesired deform result.

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This occurs when I use my mouse scroll wheel to scrub through the timeline. It also renders like this. It also shows when I scrub the timeline and prior to releasing the mouse button and once I do release the child snaps to the desired location.

What is the proper method for parenting objects to a Pitchipoy rig?

I'm thinking that there may be a hack where I can take advantage of parse order to cause the child to snap to its intended transform, like it does with the mouse button release, that I can do prior to rendering.

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  • $\begingroup$ Check for parenting dependency issues inside system console window. 99% of cases it will be this problem. $\endgroup$
    – Jaroslav Jerryno Novotny
    Commented Apr 11, 2016 at 11:31
  • $\begingroup$ I'm not getting any errors in console. It may not be a parenting issue error because of the "mouse button release" fix. $\endgroup$
    – Eli Peters
    Commented Apr 12, 2016 at 9:37
  • $\begingroup$ Then if there are no dependency cycles and yet blender fails to properly update the scene I would consider sending a bug report. Can you recreate the problem in a simple example and share it for evaluation? $\endgroup$
    – Jaroslav Jerryno Novotny
    Commented Apr 12, 2016 at 10:11
  • $\begingroup$ Thanks Jerryno for your help. I'm going to try one last approach before I post a bug report. I suspect my method for parenting the facial tracking post Rigify generate is the cause. If I can resolve it I will post an answer. $\endgroup$
    – Eli Peters
    Commented Apr 13, 2016 at 0:28
  • $\begingroup$ I just posted a video of my issue. I hope that this clarifies things. I hope too that this video shows that I'm doing something drastically wrong [link]youtube.com/watch?v=UAPL_eynwTw $\endgroup$
    – Eli Peters
    Commented Apr 13, 2016 at 10:31

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I searched the bug report and the file you provided there. There is indeed a dependency cycle on object level - it prints out into the system console:

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The culprit is that the empty is parented to the head. Blender checks dependency cycles on object level in old dependency graph, which is a known limitation.

To solve the issue switch to the new dependency graph by running blender with --enable-new-depsgraph command line argument. It will work there, because blender evaluates dependencies better and on bone level.

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  • $\begingroup$ Apologies - it does indeed! $\endgroup$
    – Eli Peters
    Commented Apr 13, 2016 at 23:33
  • $\begingroup$ Your a legend @Jerryno! $\endgroup$
    – Eli Peters
    Commented Apr 13, 2016 at 23:45

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