[Closed] Help with Aligning all objects Pivots

Mar 17, 2014 5:22 am

hello,

I would like to select all the objects and align all of their pivots to (0,0,0)


for i in 1 to 10 do
(
sphere radius:(i*10) position:[i^2*10, 0, 0]
torus radius1:(i^2*10) radius2: 2 segs: 32
)

As you can see i have mastered the art of translocating and extracting key intel from the mind of maxscripts creator. This has proven invaluable for my quest to rule the maxscript world.

Any tips or hints would be stellar.

If i had to guess I would probably use WorldAlignPivot

so maybe select $object WorldAlignPivot;

(obviously this doesn’t work, i was just hoping i didn’t have to write each name of every object)

2 Replies

miauu

Mar 17, 2014 5:22 am

What do you mean by align all of their pivots to (0,0,0) ?
Do you want all pivots to be at world 0,0,0
In this case you can use:


 selection.pivot = [0,0,0]

The pivots of all of the selected objects will be at world [0,0,0]
Or you can set the position of the pivot when the obejcts are created:


 (
 	for i in 1 to 10 do
 	(
 		sphere radius:(i*10) position:[i^2*10, 0, 0] pivot:[0,0,0]
 		torus radius1:(i^2*10) radius2: 2 segs: 32 pivot:[0,0,0]
 	)
 )

Or if your objects are already created and you have them in an array then you can use:


 (
 	objArr = for i in 1 to 10 collect
 	(
 		sphere radius:(i*10) position:[i^2*10, 0, 0]
 	)
 --
 	objArr.pivot = [0,0,0]
 )

WorldAlignPivot works this way


 WorldAlignPivot selection[1]
 -- or
 WorldAlignPivot $Teapot01
 --or
 WorldAlignPivot selection
 --or
 WorldAlignPivot #($Teapot001, $Sphere001, $Box001)