Suggestion for additional feature for the Pin behaviour

Ashley

The new features added to the Pin behaviour are great but I was thinking as well as the "Destroy with pinned object" checkbox you could have a similar thing for object visibility. If the object its pinned to is made invisible then do the same to the pinned object.

I use Pins a lot with UI and it would simplify the code for toggling the visibility of parts of the UI.

For the record, here are all the features of a popular Pin+ addon, some of them are quite useful and it will be nice to see them implemented in the official behavior:

You could take this even further, and pin instance variables, behavior properties, effect parameters, and so on and on. But I think it's unweildly to keep adding more and more. Eventually you end up with huge lists that you have to scroll through, and it undermines our goal to make a simple tool that's easy for beginners to understand. So we have to draw the line somewhere, and I think what we have now is a good point to leave it. Pinning values is easy to do in events as well so it's really just a convenience behavior, I don't think it needs to try to solve this for everything.

Pinning values is easy to do in events

Ashley Pinning itself can be done with events...

To me pinning properties like mirror/flip and scale are just as important as pinning an angle. Yes, it's possible to do them with events, but it would make a lot of sense to have these features in the Pin behavior.

Mirror is negative width and flip is negative height. So you should already inherit mirror/flip if you pin the width/height.

Even better! So can you please add pin width/height? It will really help with tasks like creating modular characters.

Pinning width and height was already added in one of the recent betas.

Oh, sorry, I was looking for a separate action, something like "Pin scale". It's working great, thank you!