Object Position?

[ghoul]

well I am new to max script, but I think it is
yourObjectName.pos [0,0,0] or whatever coordinates you want

[Bobo]

Originally posted by Technofreak
Hi Everybody, whats the command for object position (xform in Maya) in Max?

Thank You


The position property is

yourObject.position

or in short,

yourObject.pos

You can also access the complete transformation matrix using

yourObject.transform

This returns a Matrix3 value, whose .row4 is the position.

yourObject.transform.row4

Yet another way to access the position (JFYI, you will usually not do that) is

yourObject.pos.controller.value

which accesses the value stored in the position controller instead of accessing the result at PRS transformation level.

To access a single axis, use the .x, .y and .z elements of the Point3 value returned by the above methods:

yourObject.pos.x --returns only the X component.
yourObject.pos.y --returns only the Y component.
yourObject.pos.z --returns only the Z component.

And remember, in Max Z is up :)

To assign the value, you just put an assignment operator between the left-hand side (the property) and the right-hand side (the new Point3 value):

yourObject.pos = [10,20,30]

Advanced info: Assigning directly to the transformation matrix is not possible, you have to read the value into a variable, manipulate the value and write back, for example

tmp = yourObject.transform
tmp.row4 = [10,20,30]
yourObject.transform = tmp

while

yourObject.transform.row4 = [10,20,30]

will NOT work!


Hope this helps...
(You never know what you might need someday!)


Cheers,
Bobo

[Technofreak]

thanks for the 411 ;)

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