Ok I've got this script working now (with much help from SyncViewS). Basically it uses the normals of your subobject selection to align the working pivot. It doesn't have fancy selection highlighting like modos and you have to drop your current selection to set the working pivot but it helps with quickly aligning the…
Thanks a lot, Bryan! I am so glad I accidentally stumbled across this thread. I have been griping about this for a long time, and although the edit working pivot is ok, it is a poor replacement for Modo's element action center. This script works really well.
I'm primary a 3dmax user, but I've been using Modo recently and found the Action centre, Element to be invaluable when creating complex hardsurfaces. Is there any script or method I'm missing , for 3dsmax, that would allow me to quickly select subobject elements and then tranform them using another subobjects alignment?…
I should mention this script will only work in max 2008 and up. 2008 it when Autodesk added in the working pivot. I've only tested it in Max 2009. Edit: Corrected a small pivot point bug and re-uploaded. There is also a bug where the normals are not correct on heavily NU scaled object. That bug will not be fixed but you…
I do not use modo so I am not sure if this is what you are asking but I will toss it out there... If you want an object to share the local axis of a different object you can always go into the hierarchy panel and click the "affect pivot only" button and then use the align tool to match objectA's pivot and rotation to…