Can someone ennlight me about the misteries of DS gizmo please?

handel_035c4ce6

I presume there is a reason why the color of the Gizmo axes never correspodn of the color of the axes in the Proreties tab, but can someone enlight me how to guess which one is which w/o the need to test every axis with 50% chance for the color and 25% chane for the direction (I mean only 50%/25% as the matching axis never match so I can test it at the last). And it is the same with both the translations and the rotations.

Richard Haseltine

Check the coordinate system being used, in the Tool Settings pane.

handel_035c4ce6

Richard Haseltine said:

Check the coordinate system being used, in the Tool Settings pane.

I see, thanks. The Properties tab coordinates match the World coordinates, right?

Richard Haseltine

The numbers are the local values.

handel_035c4ce6

Richard Haseltine said:

The numbers are the local values.

So the world coordinates starts from 0,0,0; the local coordinates are the coordinates where the item was created/merged/imported and for newly created stuff w/o fixed point of creation the local coordinates should be 0,0,0 too?

Richard Haseltine

The values are the current state, yes - if the bone/item hasn't been rotated or translated itself they will be zero (whether the mesh is at its default position will of course depend on what its parents, if it has any, are set to).

handel_035c4ce6

Is there a way to make the Transform sliders move and rotate the selected figure not only according to the world coordinates, but for example the along the local coordinates etc?

Richard Haseltine

No, the sliders are always workng in local space.