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I didn't address this in a while because I was busy with something else, but now it has cycled back into my schedule. Right now I have a shirt modeled and bones set in place. It's already technically rigged, but the only issue is the buttons. enter image description here

I'm not entirely sure how to go about connecting them to the shirt's deformations. I tried to combine them and the shirt into one object, but because of the shirt's modifiers, (Solidify and subsurf, which I don't want to apply yet), the buttons become extremely deformed. I've tried to match the weight painting intensity where a button is at in correspondence with the shirt, but that doesn't seem to work, maybe it has to do with the specifics of where the button is? enter image description here

Is there a way to make the buttons follow the shirt's deformations without deforming the mesh vertices of the button? I know that if I probably apply the modifiers on the shirt and combine it with the buttons, it would be okay, but I'm not okay with doing that just yet with the shirt.

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I rigged the shirt by deleting all vertex groups, assigning empty groups to the mesh from the armature, and then assigned automatic groups in the weight paint menu.

Is there a way to do this?

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    $\begingroup$ Parent to 3 Vertices. $\endgroup$
    – atomicbezierslinger
    Aug 6, 2017 at 19:02

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Parent to 3 Vertices

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Original Flat Plane at the Parenting time. This may not matter. Image Above.

Note the Parent Setting. The beformation of lightweight fabric or clothes maybe very different than the moving human body.

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Shapley beformation with Shape Keys. Note the buttons follow location and normal of the three vertices. Blender determined the three vertices for the Blender User convenience.

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The Parent Menu. Parent Plane Child Button. Image above.

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    $\begingroup$ Mhh, the post was way better after Ben's edit. Why rolling it back? $\endgroup$
    – brockmann
    Apr 3, 2019 at 16:08
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You may do it using vertex and object parenting. enter image description here

Select the vertex where you want to place the button and snap the cursor to it. In Object Mode add an Empty there.
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Now select the Empty, then the mesh and enter Edit Mode. Select three vertices around the button and press Ctrl+P-->Make Vertex Parent. Finally parent the button object to an Empty. (Ctrl+P-->Object (Keep Transform)).
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    $\begingroup$ Just realized you don't need empties to make it work good. Just parent each button to three vertices (as atomicbezierslinger did in his answer). $\endgroup$
    – Paul Gonet
    Aug 6, 2017 at 17:36
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If anyone is still looking up how to do this in 2022, like I did today, I should note that when I tried this the first time, it failed.

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My parent object is deformed by an armature. However, the child object that was parented to the parent object vertices (tri) would move opposite of the parent object vertices being deformed by said armature.

To fix this:

  • Select child object and Set Origin To Geometry (Shift Ctrl Alt C).
  • Parent child object to vertices on parent object.

The order of this is important.

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At some point I had applied Location, Rotation and Scale which caused the issue. Easy to miss.

Hope this helps.

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