What is the Differences between Attach and Link?

In Cartoon Animator, there are two features that allow an object to be connected to another, Attach and Link. Both these features are used in different ways.

 

Link

Attach

Situation

  • Creating conveying animations for props and actors
  • Creating compound props
  • Putting accessories onto characters

Similar Behaviors

  • The child node inherits the parent's transform data
  • The child can be transformed after linkage
  • The child node inherits the parent's transform data
  • The child can be transformed after attaching

Generating Keys in the Timeline

  • Available
  • Not Available

Saving Relations in Projects

  • Available
  • Available

Multiple Objects

  • Supported
  • Supported

Saving Parent to Library

  • Parent-child relation is broken
  • Only parent is saved
  • Parent-child relation is saved

Levels

  • Multiple levels available
  • Recursive linking is forbidden
  • Multiple levels available
  • Recursive linking is forbidden

Hierarchy in Scene Manager

  • No change
  • Changes
  • Child is moved under the parent node