Yeah I know how you feel. Working at the Item level and animating things in Modo always makes me feel like I'm trying to draw with my feet. Anyway here's a breakdown of the steps for the parenting mirror: 0. Make sure you are in Item Mode and not any of the other component modes like Vertices, Edges, etc... 1. Right click…
Sorry, I'm not very well versed with Modo's pivots/centers. Doing a simple two cylinder parent/child test with pivots placed at their ends. I was able to successfully mirror the hierarchy across the X axis in Item mode with positions and rotations intact using the "Mirror" tool. Though I had to re-parent the mirrored child…