what on earth is the rotatehelper.mll

[RentaLLMay]

maybe this helps a little bit
http://www.highend3d.com/boards/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=mayageneral&Number=108324&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1

good luck

[anthonymcgrath]

after reading thru the attached thread and having a play myself, I can conclude that I'm still bloody useless with this node. heres the long n short:

basically, I have a polgon plane that is at 45degrees in X. I then freeze this transform which puts it perfectly where I need it. I shift my centre pivot to the edge I want to rotate the shape from but the rotate tool is still reset to match the global 0,0,0 space which aint helping.
I want one of the axis of my translate/rotate tool to point along the edge of my polyplane but still be at 0,0,0 values in the channel box. Is there:
A: a way to do this?

B: some poor soul who knows what the hell I'm on about.

if anyone can crack this - would be greatly chuffed.

cheers
ant
newcastle

[playmesumch00ns]

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but the best way to do things like this is generally to parent->dowhatever->unparent. Also only apply freeze transformations to the channels you actually want freezed. If you could explain again exactly what you want to do I could maybe help a bit more.

[anthonymcgrath]

basically If I have a polyplane, I place the centrepivot on the edge I want to rotate from.

Now I want to select 2 vertices and point the X axis along the edge that joins them effectively aligning the X axis on that edge but still leave the rotate values at 0,0,0 in the channel box.

hope this makes sense.

ant
that toooooo ..er Newcastle. :wavey:

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