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Adjust Transform Rollout 489
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 Object Onl y—Affects only the selected
objects (and not the pivot point).
Affect Hierar chy Only—Affects only the Rotation
and Scale tools. I t applies the rotation or scale to
the hierarchy by rotating or scaling the position
of the pivot point without rotating or scaling the
pivot poin t 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 (page 1–404).
Note: It’s import ant to remember that the A lign,
Normal Align, and Alig n 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
you chose Affect Pivot On ly or Affect O bject Only.
They don’t apply to Affect Hierarchy Only.
If you chose Affect Pivot Only, the buttons work
as follows:
Center to Object—Mov es 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 Pivot—Rotates the object to align its
transformation matrix axes with the pivot.
Align to World—Rotates the object to align its
transformation matrix axes w ith the world
coordinate axes.
Pivot group
Reset Pivot—Resets the pivot point to the p o sition
and orientation it held wh en the object was first
created. This is not affected by the state of the
Affect Pivot Only and Affect Object Only buttons.
Adjust Transfor m R ollout
Make a selection. > Hierarchy panel > Pivot button >
Adjust Transform rollout
You can transform an object and its pivot
without affecting its children us ing the buttons in
Adjust Transform rollout. Adjusting an object’s
transforms has no effect on any children lin ked
to that object.