Bend deformer affecting parent - but not child

[request-week]

Hi,

I am trying to deform (bend) a parent object, without affecting the child object – but still have the child object follow its relative “position”..

My problem is that the child object also gets deformed/distorted due to the bend, as soon as it is next to the deformer box – although it is not inside of it.

A simple example would be as follow:

The red cylinder has a bend deformer (fit to parent activated).

Around the cylinder there is a blue Tube:

The tube should follow the relative position of the bended cylinder. And it does – but it also gets affected by the bend, distorting it:

Do you know how I can have the tube follow the bended cylinder – without the tube getting bended/distorted? Like this:

Thanks a lot!

Best
Christian

[Dr. Sassi]

Hi Christian,

Please have a look here:

The idea is to have a little object in the bend set-up and use it as
Cloner>Attribute Manager> Object> Mode> Object
CV4_2025_drs_25_ANbo_01.c4d
Is this working for your project?

All the best

[request-week]

Hi Dr. Sassi,

That is exactly what I needed! And it works perfectly.

Thanks you very much for your time.

Best
Christian

[Dr. Sassi]

Hi Christian,

Thank you very much for the reply.

Enjoy your project