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edward
Ah but you can't do it this way because the number of controllers in a rig is not procedural at animation time. You would need to create these controllers in your component as part of the rig itself.

Ah, so there it is! Thank you Ed, much appreciated! So, I take it that what I need to do is to do this using a component script. Should I do so before deformation is computed or after you think?

Hi Edward;

Yes, therein lies my wee problem I should be doing something wrong, bu can't quite wrap my head around what it may be

Here's a screenshot from my test scene. I expect 2 transform objects to be created as there are 2 prims in the group that is being iterated over yet a single Tr objects is being generated. What do you think I'm doing wrong here?

Hi;

I'm trying to read grouped primitives on the incoming Base.shp stream in an Apex Graph SOP that is connected to an ARC-Fuse SOP and create Transform Objects per primitive in the group; ie. if there are 6 primitives in the group, I want to create 6 Transform objects.

I looked for a relevant Apex Graph node that outputs the grouped primitives as an Array that I wanted to iterate over but to no avail :-/

What I ultimately (hopefully) aim to accomplish is to create n number of Transform objects per prims in a prim group and constrain them to the center of each primitive in the group via the primconstraint node. This I need to do within the bounds of APEX. not upstream of it, as the generated joints need to be constrained to the prims post-deformation.

Any help would be wildly appreciated.

Cheers;

AJ