Maya mel, set absoulte world positon.

passerby

hello im trying to find a way to set the world position of a object, to a absolute value, even after it;s transformations have been frozen.

from the GUI it;s easy enough, to just use the input field in the top right corner set to absolute mode, the problem is doing it from script.

i tried

xform -a -ws -t 0 0 0;

and

move -a -ws 0 0 0;

and neither one of them will set the object back to 0 0 0 after it's transformations have been frozen.

passerby

not the most direct way, but there dosnt seem to be a direct way, so this will do for now.

makeIdentity -apply true -t 1 -r 1 -s 1 -n 0;
$Pos = `xform -q -piv -ws`;
move -a  (-1 *  $Pos[0]) (-1*$Pos[1] ) (-1*$Pos[2]) ;

bk3d

use the -rpr flag in the move command.
move -rpr x y z
this should work with objects that have their transforms frozen too



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