Pivot orientation without moving verrtexes

[NaughtyNathan]

Maya has a function to rotate an object's local pivot, but it doesn't really rotate it, it simply adds an axis rotation offset that's accessible by some things but not others (i.e. scale), which kinda makes it pretty useless in my opinion...

It may do what you want though... go into component mode and RMB-click on the ? component icon on your main toolbar. You can choose "Local Rotation Axes" and rotate the pivot like this.

if you REALLY want to rotate the object's real pivot there's no way I know of, however I came up with a neat trick that works well on polygon objects. Simply store all the existing vertex worldspace positions, then ROTATE the WHOLE object to your desired pivot rotation, then move all it's vertices back to their original world positions. :D

You can download a MEL script that does this from my old website:
http://www.naughtynathan.supanet.com/data/mel.htm (http://www.naughtynathan.supanet.com/data/mel.htm)

it's called "rotatePivotViaObject.mel"
:nathaN

[shenmue]

Thank you very very much man.I was trying to something like you said,orienting the object and the creating cluster on vertexes to restore their position but I felt it was to weird and I stoped trying,because I though it would be a "sofisticated" way.
Any way,I going to check your script.Thanks

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