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transform tool
Sometimes the yellow square in the middle of my transform tool stays flat to the camera - as in the picture on the left. At other times, the square stays flat to the world coordinates as in the picture to the right.
Not sure what I am doing to change it and changing the tool to world or object or whatever, seems to have no effect.
help! let me know if i haven't explained this very well.
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Just a guess though
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J5ive - yep, first thing I tried was resetting the tool, but no joy.
I've spent all morning at work (Don't tell my boss!
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'Re: move tool - perpendicular to view port?
that means you have constrainted the move axis tool to the indicated plane......if you drag at the center of the manip you get only the 2 degrees of freedom, but using the arrows overrides this plane....it is (on windoze) ctrl + clik on the arrow to deactivate that axis that does this.....works on move, rotate and scale..... '
so, hopefully that will work...
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yea basically if you want to constrain to 2 dimensions you ctrl + click on the arrow you don't want things moving in... i've found that if you want to undo it, you've gotta ctrl+click inside the yellow square. haven't tried it with rotate or scale yet, but it is kinda handy if you want to move a vertex fast but make sure it keeps on the same plane. i use it a lot because trying to drag around in the perspective view can potentially give you some unwieldy results unless you constrain.
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I knew you could use ctrl with the scale tool to transform the object with the other two axis - i didn't realise that it was ctrl that was alternating the yellow square between the world and camera. It was really frustrating cos, as you said, having it perpendicular to the camera is really useful for modelling.
Ha ha - excellent!
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