 | | | Re: Bone & Object Movement More Intuitive in Carrara 5? | Re: Bone & Object Movement More Intuitive in Carrara 5? 2005-10-27 - By nicholas8681
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Ok. First. Blender, Wings and Carrara are different programs. With
this in mind they work differently. The reason that your objects moved
back rather then up as you intended because objects move according to
the selected grid in Carrara. For instance by default the bottom grid
is selected so "free" movement is restricted to movement on the x and
y-axis. But you can easily select the object and then select its
outline on either of the other grids and move it on the z-axis.
This is all a matter of preference I think. I'd prefer the movements
be more controlled and not move according to my view of the object but
constrained to a grid. Your comment about vertices and edges is more
an issue because that could be useful...but the addition of hexagon's
manipulators helps with that. Hope I answered your question.
Brian
--- In Carrara@(protected), "mountainguild" <brucegregory@(protected)> wrote:
>
> Trying to avoid comparison with other software, in this case, is
> difficult. Blender, for example, has been manipulatorless up until
> recently, and avid users preferred, and still prefer this mode.
> Manipulators were added to make newcomers feel more comfortable.
> Objects, edges, vertices, bones all could be intuitively moved
> relative to the view the user was in at the moment. In other words,
> things went where you wanted them to go. In essence, a movement could
> exist across diagonals because they moved in two planes relative to
> the view. If the same move was tried in Carrara, an "up" movement of
> the mouse could result in the object moving away from the plane of the
> view, or "back", instead of "up" - not very intuitive. Again, if an
> object were selected and the user moved the mouse "down", the object
> might rush "forward" in the view - not very intuitive. Everything was
> dependent on which view plane was activated - an extra set of steps
> each time movement was attempted.
>
> Yes, the manipulators free the user, somewhat, from this constraint,
> but viewing an object obliquely and wanting to move the thing
> perpendicular to that particular, instant view, requires two or more
> tugs on a manipulator, where, in Blender, for example, one gesture is
> all that is needed. When one is moving many objects, vertices, edges -
> multiplying all the work by a factor of two really starts to slow all
> processes down - not ideal in a production environment.
>
> This is the nature of my question: can I work in Carrara as fast as I
> can in Blender, or Wings, for that matter? Can objects, vertices,
> edges, faces, bones be moved relative to the view, without the use of
> manipulators - so that if I move my mouse "up" the object always goes
> "up" and not "back" into the view . . . if I move my mouse "down",
> from any arbitrary view, will my object, face, edge, vertice, bone, IK
> handle, etc, go down, as I intend? They did not in Carrara 4. Do they
> now behave this way in Carrara 5?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg Smith
>
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