EDITS: It´s so complicated I mix up local/worldspace constantly.
Hi Brent,
thanks for pointing out the differences between object pivot and center.
I had played with it a bit and *think* I got it to work as I´d need.
Still haven´t understood why there is a need to differentiate but
that´ll come with time I guess.
It´s pretty hard not to get confused and mix up terminology or
functionality, so I´ve put together two, three sampleworkflows
I´d like to easily go through without worrying about getting shifts
or loosing the option to enter/see correct values in the KP/L.
1)Animation:
Helperobject (like a nurbscircle) driving an IK chain, the NURBS object
pivot is centered, all values are zeroed out. Both [k]eying and numerical
entering a value in the KP/L produce similar results. The KP/L shows
reliable info,
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(edit) not worldspace, because transforms had been zeroed
out, entering 0/0/0/ in worldspace would produce incorrect results, the
object wouldn´t jump back to it´s freeze position. One should therefor
be able to switch the KP/L from local to world (via the Transformpanel-
buttons, local, global, COG) and enter values based on that coordinate system.
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2)Modeling:
Squeaky wheel, it´s object pivot set fixed to the rotation axis, scaling
the object numercially keeps it "in place".
Squeaky wheel, toggling COG on/off, allows to have selected every
2nd poly of the tires and either extrude outwards (Y) uniformly or,
when off, have the center sit on the extruded face (aligned) and move
it outwards numerically, either throught the extrude PPG or entering
the amount into the KP/L, e.g. KP/L would show the centervalues in
local space.
Currently, as the tools don´t take into account COG/refplane (it seems)
it´s difficult to first align the object pivot with a ref plane, then use a tool
like extrude to numercially extrude something correctly in a (local) axis.
Instead, the extrude seems to work based on the objectpivot, which isn´t
modified (and shouldn´t) but really should work based on the settings set
in the Transform panel, e.g. local(center or pivot?)/global (world?)/ref...
So, while you´re at it, would be cool to check for consistency, so that in
whatever mode, one could use the KP/L to enter a desired value (no shift),
extrude/use tool based on the currently set Transformpanel(space) options
(e.g. local space for component selections) and never worry about keying
the wrong values in the KP/L EDIT:
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as the KP/L allways shows the correct values based on the transformmode
set, local, global, ref, and so on
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Cheers
tim
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