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General Category => General Anim8or Forum => Topic started by: Old Codger on April 11, 2024, 10:08:51 am

Title: Reorienting Axes Trick
Post by: Old Codger on April 11, 2024, 10:08:51 am

I've discovered a way to trick Anim8or into resetting the object axes post rotation. Mirroring. If you convert an mesh to mirrored, the axes realign automatically. So I rotate as necessary then convert to mirrored. Bingo! The mesh retains its current orientation and all the axes revert to 0 rotation.

What do you think?

Title: Re: Reorienting Axes Trick
Post by: Steve on April 12, 2024, 01:02:39 pm

You don't need to use mirroring. Just use the Edit->Pivot->AlignToWorld menu command.

Title: Re: Reorienting Axes Trick
Post by: Old Codger on April 13, 2024, 03:53:19 pm

You are the man, Steve, and the true source of knowledge about all things related to your marvelous toy, but when I tried what you said nothing happened. Below is a screen shot after doing the pivot command. I tried it before and it never worked for me. But the mirroring trick does so I'm happy.

For the record I am running V1.00b.1296 27 August 17

Title: Re: Reorienting Axes Trick
Post by: Steve on April 20, 2024, 08:40:32 am

OK it works sometime and not others. If I make a mesh and rotate it once, then AlignToWorld, nothing happen. But it I rotate it tweice in a row, it works.

It obviously a bug -- I'll look into it.

Title: Re: Reorienting Axes Trick
Post by: Old Codger on April 20, 2024, 01:25:33 pm

All anybody could ask, sir.