geee From your purpose, it would be better to use path constraints. It is difficult to explain the setup using path constraints in words alone, so I have created an example project for you:
The example project has two skeletons: one that is supposed to animate the band by moving path vertices directly, and one that is supposed to animate the band by moving bones bound to the path. You can take whatever method you are comfortable with, but I think it is probably easier to use bones because bones are easier to select than path vertices.
Important things of the example setup:
- The mode of
Spacing of the path constraint is set to Proportional and the Spacing value is set to 100. This places the bones spaced to take up the entire path.
- The mode of
Rotate Mix is set to Chain Scale. Chain Scale first rotates the bone so it points at the next position along the path, determined by spacing, then it scales the bone so the tip is at that position. When using Chain Scale, all of the constrained bones should have the same parent or the first bone should be the parent of the rest of the bones. In the example project, I set the bones with the former setup.
I hope this will help you.
