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Mike Abbott
10-08-2002, 01:05 PM
Hi folks,
The EB has only just landed for some of us in the UK - so excuse me if this is real 'R8 newby' ;)

Just wondering why we still need a separate co-ordinates manager alongside the new co-ordinates panel in the AM? Neither seems to have the 'full functionality' of the other. Why not combine them into one full fledged AM version?


For example:
The AM co-ord panel lacks pull down mens for object / world, size, scale etc.?

Also;

Say you have two objects selected. Typing '+2' at the end of a position field in the old co-ord manager will move the objects '+2' units - but will retain their relative positions to each other. In the new AM co-ord panel, doing the same thing will co-locate the objects on that axis.

Why not have the AM version so that when a figure is typed into to the grayed out field(s) starting with a maths symbol like "-", "+" or "/", the objects move the specified distance - while retaining relative position to each other, if no symbol, they co-locate at the new position.

Hoping this is understandable.

Mike A.
LucentDreams
10-08-2002, 11:29 PM
perfectly understandable, but this is yet another reason the coordinates manager was kept, the idea of the AM is to control parameters, so if you have a group of lights you can control the parameters of theat group of lights, but what if you change the colour to red, how would it handle it if one light was blue another green? it makes them both red of course. Sameting applies with the rest of the settings, if the two objects are in the same place on the x axis you'll notice they aren't greyed (or whatever colour your scheme has, in my case purple) in their x axis as they have the same parameter.
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