Hi,
Is it possible to move the manipulator to the “center of the object”?
/Jack
I have not found a way to move pivot point…but you can make a new plain empty xform and place it over your object, then you can drag your object inside this new xfrom, as a child.
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Assuming the issue is that the vertices of the Mesh are defined relative to the coordinate frame off to the left:
It should be possible to write a python script (maybe this already exists) that translates all the vertices of the Mesh to be relative to either a computed or manually specified center point. The vertex array of the Mesh can be accessed using USD… https://developer.nvidia.com/usd/tutorials
That is not to say we should not add this as a built-in capability in the future, but at present, without coding, Pekka’s suggestion is your best bet.
So you got a pivot point in your object. How is the Transform section look like in your property window? There is probably something like Translate:pivot and Translate:pivot -1 entries there(or similar names with pivot postfix). If you set either entries’ value to (0, 0, 0), you can move the pivot point to the center of your object.
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on today’s public version the Manipulator will be at the center of the bounding box of the object.
we have a new Pivot Feature in the next version that will both respect Pivot matrix if they are setup correctly in the USD file or enable you to add a Pivot to the object and move it around to align where you want it to be
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Awesome.
So where is this manipulator? Does Omniverse automatically update to the public version? Not seeing a pivot tool but is much needed! Thanks!
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So, almost a year later, did anyone figure out where this functionality is or if it has been implemented at all?
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Hey Steffen!
Currently you can generate a new pivot w/ the “Add” function in the property panel.
I’m looking at this internally to see if there are additional tools to make pivot placement easier.
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Hi Steffen,
We are working on a suite of tools that will be available directly from the manipulator for things like Pivot, Multi- selection Pivot, World/Local Space, and Snapping. Here is a preview of what this is looking like. This is only a few of the options.
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This will be handy!! Thanks in adv.