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Adjust Pivot Rollout 471
Inter face
Move/Rotate/Scale group
Each of the buttons in the Move/Rotate/Scale
group box highlights when active. This determines
which part of the object is affected by the three
buttons in the Alignment area, as well as the
Transform and Align commands on the Main
toolbar.
Affect Pivot Only—Affects only the pivot point of
the selected objects.
Note: A Scale transform has no effect on the pivot.
Af f e ct O b j e ct O nly—Affect s only the selected
objects (and not the pivot point).
Affect Hiera rchy Only—Affects only the Rotation
and Scale tools. I t applies the rotation or scale to
the hier archy by rotating or scaling the
position
of the pivot point without rotating or scaling the
pivot point itself.
Note: You can use this on hierarchies of 3ds Max
objects, but don’t use it on Bones systems. To
reposition, rotate or change the size of bones in a
chain, see
Bones (p age 1–381) .
Note: It’s important to remember t hat the Align,
Normal Align, and Align to View functions are all
affected by the state of Affect Pivot Only, Affect
Object Only, and Affect Hierarchy Only. Snap
modeallowsyoutosnapthepivottoitsown
object, or to any other object in the scene.
Alignment group
The effect of these buttons depends on whether
youchoseAffectPivotOnlyorAffectObjectOnly.
They don’t apply to Affect Hierarchy Only.
If you chose Affect Pivot Only, the buttons work
as follows:
Cent er to Object—Moves the pivot to the center of
its object.
Align to Object—Rotates the pivot to align with the
object’s transformation matrix axes.
Align to World—Rotates the pivot to align with the
world coordinate axes.
If you chose Affect Object Only, the buttons work
as follows:
Center to Pivot—Moves the center of the object to
its pivot location.
Align to P ivot—Rotates the object to align its
transformation matrix axes with the pivot.
Align to World—Rotates the object to align its
transformation matrix axes with the world
coordinate axes.
Pivot group
Reset Pivot—Resets the pivot point to the posit ion
and orientation it held when the object was first
created. This is not affected by the state of the
Affect Pivot Only and Affect Object Only buttons.