hi I'm new to maya and I'm creating my first animation for an assignment
my model has a faceplate and a hair piece that make up the head, I want the head to move and act as one and for them to move together in the hierarchy, but there are also things like the eyes and other parts of the hair that need to connect and move with the head
my issue is that the mouth of the model is textured onto the face plate, and I'll need to swap it out between other objects with different textures (based on what's expected of us and what we learned in class), and these faces also need to act as parents to things like the eyes and eyebrows
I was thinking that I'd be able to group the faces together and then set the group node as a parent for the eyes, but when I try to do that it just places them in the group or as a child of a specific part of the group instead of the whole thing, is what I want impossible or am i doing it wrong?
if it is impossible what's the best way to structure the hierarchy? 🥹