[Plugin] Transformation Inspector

[Rich O Brien]

Go get some beer

[thomthom]

@unknownuser said:

Does this works for any volumes ? Cylinders etc..

It works on Groups and Components - doesn't care for the content.

@unknownuser said:

Go get some beer

Will do! And I promise there will be a new toy for you soon*!

*soon being relative to infinite time.

[Rich O Brien]

Enjoy

[TIG]

It would be more 'intuitive' if there was some guidance about which bits of the transformation matrix did what, and how they interact [especially rotation/scaling/handing] etc
http://www.martinrinehart.com/models/tutorial/tutorial_t.html

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trans=trans.to_a

        scalex=Math.sqrt(trans[0]**2+trans[1]**2+trans[2]**2)
        scaley=Math.sqrt(trans[4]**2+trans[5]**2+trans[6]**2)
        scalez=Math.sqrt(trans[8]**2+trans[9]**2+trans[10]**2)
                 
        scale=scalex
        scale=scaley if scaley>scale
        scale=scalez if scalez>scale

        puts "         <pos>#{trans[12]} #{trans[13]} #{trans[14]}</pos>\n"
        puts "         <scale>#{scale}</scale>\n"   
        puts "         <rotation>\n"
        puts "            <matrix>\n"
        puts "               #{trans[0]/scalex} #{trans[4]/scaley} #{trans[8]/scalez} #{trans[1]/scalex} #{trans[5]/scaley} #{trans[9]/scalez} #{trans[2]/scalex} #{trans[6]/scaley} #{trans[10]/scalez}\n"
        puts "            </matrix>\n"
        puts "         </rotation>\n"

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[thomthom]

Yea - that is my plan as well. And I want to be able to create matrices from the Geom::Transformation helper methods so one can visualize what they do.

I started adding tooltips for scaling and translation - but the rotation turned out to be more complex so I put it on hold until I better understood what it did - as RS for the whole 3x3 matrix felt a bit too generic.

[Pixero]

This is great!

Actually I have though for some time to do a port of one of my MentalRay plugins that does pretty much the same.
Now I don't have to.

What I would like is a more user friendly GUI.
Something like this:

Translate  X  Y  Z
Rotate     X  Y  Z
Scale      X  Y  Z
Shear      X  Y  Z

Rotate Order  (dropdown with; 1; XYZ, 2; YZX, 3; ZXY, 4; XZY, 5; YXZ, 6; ZYX
Rotate Axis   X  Y  Z

World Rotate Pivot   X  Y  Z
World Scale Pivot    X  Y  Z

Edit: I just realised that you can easily go back to a undeformed state simply by doing a negative transform of the applied one.
Thats even better...

[function]

Thanks TT - I'd grown so used to the Maya channel box that I was making dyna-components that do this - cept I had to make one for every object! This is so useful.
I'd love to see units incorporated and that slick java UI you do. Some sort of mini-icon for the rows might be helpful, too.

this is the maya channel box

[mattao]

I'd like a contextual to "reset" a component position.

I'd like to be sure my component origin is truly at a 0.0.0 position.

Transformation inspector is able to help me to do this ( and it's very efficient and I thank you )

By the way I can mount complex scene using External sketchup files as reference, and thanks to you they are perfectly well located in the main scene.

Could you help me get a right click substitute for transformation inspector.

I'd like to select a component and right click to :
TransfoMenu -> reset position
TransfoMenu -> reset scale
TransfoMenu -> reset rotation
TransfoMenu -> reset all

thanks

[Bob James]

Off Subject

@thomthom said:

And I promise there will be a new toy for you soon*!

Speaking of "new toy", what ever happened to the gizmo for Vertex Tools?

[thomthom]

@bob james said:

Speaking of "new toy", what ever happened to the gizmo for Vertex Tools?

Summer happened. And life in general. Sorry it's taking so long.

[thomthom]

@mattao said:

I'd like to select a component and right click to :
TransfoMenu -> reset position
TransfoMenu -> reset scale
TransfoMenu -> reset rotation
TransfoMenu -> reset all

Reset position would place it at 0,0,0?
Reset rotation would align it to the axis of the parent context?

[glro]

i am trying to understand how the transformation matrix works, and i notice a difference between what is shown in the matrix using your plugin, and what is supposed to be shown refering to http://www.martinrinehart.com/models/tutorial/tutorial_t.html

i took a component, rotated it 45 degrees, and this is what "transformation inspector" shows

However, according to martinrinehart, i would expect the negative value to be first line second row

I am surely missing something; but can you explain the differrence?

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[glro]

i found the reason

404 Not Found

(www.ruthless.zathras.de)

seems that martinrinehart put the minus sign in the wrong place

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