[Bf-funboard] idea to replace center cursor and friends

[Matt Ebb]

On 28/12/2006, at 12:00 PM, Bassam Kurdali wrote:

> Hi folks.
> just as aligorith completed center change functionality for armatures,
> and complained about lack of space in the buttons panel for the  
> options,
> I got to thinking, why are those buttons even there?
> wouldn't it be better to use normal transform to manipulate object
> centers, with an option or mode to just move the center, and not the
> data? this would let us for instance, change the global orientation  
> of a
> curve, without changing the global location of the curve data- and in
> general, let us modify the location, rotation and scale of the
> object/center much more easily.

Yeah I think that would be good - certainly would provide a lot more  
flexibility and control than just those three buttons, being able to  
use all the normal transform tools to do it. Now that we have better  
snapping, it would be much easier than doing the Shift S shuffle.

Matt


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