Re: object center orientation

2012-09-10 Thread Alan Fregtman
Press Center in the top right, translate/rotate/scale as desired, then press Object again? Or did I miss something? On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure how to accomplish this, I am drawing a blank at the moment... A modeler build a globe and cut

Re: object center orientation

2012-09-10 Thread Eric Lampi
It's a globe, and all the rotations of these pieces are pointing towards global 0 x,y,z, the y axis needs to point outward in relation to the center, much like the normal of all of the polys on a sphere. There are 1000 pieces, so I'm looking for a repeatable function I can loop through at least.

RE: object center orientation

2012-09-10 Thread Sandy Sutherland
You could try with spacer nulls for each geo - snap to their current POS - then direction constrain them to a null in the center of the globe - parent each geo to it's respective null and freeze transforms - you could do this once and use a quick hacky script to iterate through the remaining

Re: object center orientation

2012-09-10 Thread Eric Lampi
OK cool, thanks for the tip. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a command or operator that might get me there. I need some practice scripting anyway, so I'll try to do something using an OM instead. Eric On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Sandy Sutherland

RE: object center orientation

2012-09-10 Thread Scott Lange
@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: object center orientation OK cool, thanks for the tip. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a command or operator that might get me there. I need some practice scripting anyway, so I'll try to do something using an OM instead. Eric On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1

Re: object center orientation

2012-09-10 Thread Bradley Gabe
: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Eric Lampi *Sent:* Monday, September 10, 2012 2:19 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: object center orientation ** ** OK cool, thanks for the tip. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a command or operator

Re: object center orientation

2012-09-10 Thread Bradley Gabe
, 2012 2:19 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: object center orientation ** ** OK cool, thanks for the tip. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a command or operator that might get me there. I need some practice scripting anyway, so I'll try to do something

Re: object center orientation

2012-09-10 Thread Eric Lampi
@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: object center orientation ** ** OK cool, thanks for the tip. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a command or operator that might get me there. I need some practice scripting anyway, so I'll try to do something using an OM instead. Eric On Mon

Re: object center orientation

2012-09-10 Thread Eric Lampi
* ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Eric Lampi *Sent:* Monday, September 10, 2012 2:19 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: object center orientation ** ** OK cool, thanks

Re: object center orientation

2012-09-10 Thread Eric Lampi
-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Eric Lampi *Sent:* Monday, September 10, 2012 11:06 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: object center orientation ** ** It's a globe, and all the rotations of these pieces

RE: object center orientation

2012-09-10 Thread Matt Lind
10, 2012 11:56 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: object center orientation There are over 1685 objects with no null parent, they already had a center at vertices. I was just making sure there wasn't an operation available before I ventured into scripting something, thanks

Re: object center orientation

2012-09-10 Thread David Barosin
-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Eric Lampi *Sent:* Monday, September 10, 2012 11:56 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: object center orientation ** ** There are over 1685 objects with no null parent, they already had a center at vertices. I was just