Small tweak in the new "Relative Parent" option for Bones that have Object-children:

- Transform now is relative to the bone root.

For backwards compatibility this transform was set to the tip for parenting... 

Now the new parenting option uses the root, the old one still the tip.
I've noted in the code to check on a version patch, to make it consistent.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/object.c b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/object.c
index 8826f86d72a..9a54e091524 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/object.c
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/object.c
@@ -1839,15 +1839,19 @@ static void ob_parbone(Object *ob, Object *par, float mat[4][4])
 	}
 
 	/* get bone transform */
-	if (pchan->bone->flag & BONE_RELATIVE_PARENTING)
+	if (pchan->bone->flag & BONE_RELATIVE_PARENTING) {
+		/* the new option uses the root - expected bahaviour, but differs from old... */
+		/* XXX check on version patching? */
 		copy_m4_m4(mat, pchan->chan_mat);
-	else
+	}
+	else {
 		copy_m4_m4(mat, pchan->pose_mat);
 
-	/* but for backwards compatibility, the child has to move to the tail */
-	copy_v3_v3(vec, mat[1]);
-	mul_v3_fl(vec, pchan->bone->length);
-	add_v3_v3(mat[3], vec);
+		/* but for backwards compatibility, the child has to move to the tail */
+		copy_v3_v3(vec, mat[1]);
+		mul_v3_fl(vec, pchan->bone->length);
+		add_v3_v3(mat[3], vec);
+	}
 }
 
 static void give_parvert(Object *par, int nr, float vec[3])