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blaze Spinnaker
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04-04-2005 16:08
Perhaps my mind is all a mush from too much general forum posting, but is the local axis of a complex object the same local axis as the root prim .. or something else?
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Chosen Few
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04-04-2005 16:13
Unless something has changed recently, the local orentation of the root prim should dictate the local orientation of the object as a whole.
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blaze Spinnaker
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04-04-2005 16:56
Can you verify if this is still the case, Chosen?
My local axis of the object is the first prim I linked, not the last .. which is supposed to be the root prim. _____________________
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Gurgon Grumby
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Join date: 2 Dec 2004
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04-04-2005 17:22
I have been having inconsistant results witht the local axis since the patch, it appears sometimes it is not the root prim...
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Fenix Eldritch
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Join date: 30 Jan 2005
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04-04-2005 17:25
It's not. I know first hand after spending hours in game trying to align a simple two prim object to the .5 grid. Unless all prims have the exact same orientations as the root prim, it won't snap to correctly.
From what I observed, SL now ignores the root prim (for coordinate purposes) and makes a new root from the "center" of the whole linkset and snaps it to the grid baised on that. Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad idea? I think the old way was perfect - otherwise, there's not a whole lot of importance in a root prim.... and this pretty much screws up all of my builds now  |
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Olmy Seraph
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Join date: 1 Nov 2004
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04-04-2005 18:18
Center-of-mass based reference frame is largely useless. And using it for direct manipulation but not for numerical editing is completely inconsistent. Please LL, put it back the way it was before.
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Chosen Few
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04-04-2005 18:46
Can you verify if this is still the case, Chosen? My local axis of the object is the first prim I linked, not the last .. which is supposed to be the root prim. It appears there may be a bug here. I just had an object display a completely werd oreintation. To fix it I unlinked the root, then relinked it, and now the orientation is the way it's supposed to be. If anyone else is experiencing this, I'd suggest following the same procedure to correct the problem. _____________________
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SteveR Whiplash
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Join date: 24 Sep 2004
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04-04-2005 20:34
It appears there may be a bug here. I just had an object display a completely werd oreintation. To fix it I unlinked the root, then relinked it, and now the orientation is the way it's supposed to be. If anyone else is experiencing this, I'd suggest following the same procedure to correct the problem. Yup, I noticed the same thing. Take the *fixed* object into your inventory and re-rez it and it will be screwed up again. Kind of makes building with linked objects difficult unless you just eye it, or relink it everytime. _____________________
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Spider Mandala
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Join date: 29 Aug 2003
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04-04-2005 22:36
It appears there may be a bug here. I just had an object display a completely werd oreintation. To fix it I unlinked the root, then relinked it, and now the orientation is the way it's supposed to be. If anyone else is experiencing this, I'd suggest following the same procedure to correct the problem. Yeah I can verify this one as well, unlinking and relinking seems to fix it, annoying though. _____________________
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Morgaine Dinova
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Join date: 25 Aug 2004
Posts: 968
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Manual assignment of Center of Mass.
04-06-2005 07:17
Center-of-mass based reference frame is largely useless. And using it for direct manipulation but not for numerical editing is completely inconsistent. Please LL, put it back the way it was before. Far better would be to give us a Center-of-Mass object and let us place it somewhere in our builds manually. The system would then have less to compute, and we would have far greater flexibility. _____________________
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