Local Movement

[elvandar 3]

Greetings!

I hope this is a newbie question. After searching for a while I have not been able to find how to activate local movement on objects. For example if I want to make a character move forwards diagonally from the world usually you use local movement on 3D programs. I've been having to move left right left right etc.. so I can move a character forwards which is somewhat imprecise.

 

Can anyone help me find the option to turn shift to local movement? If it does not exist is there a workaround or is this a feature that might be implemented down the line?

Regardless thank you very much for your time.

[Voxy 7.3k]

Coordinates are relative to any parent objects in Mine-imator, thus an easy workaround is to place your character inside of a folder, then apply your rotation to that folder. That way, the axes on the character's keyframes will change their orientation as well.

Edited May 9, 2019 by Voxy

[Ghatos 1.8k]

As far as I know, you can't do that in Mine-Imator, and ther're no workaround. Maybe Nimi will implement that in the next version, who knows? (Nimi is the developer of Mine-imator)

Sorry

EDIT: oh well I was wrong

Edited May 9, 2019 by Ghatos

[Cryptic Runner 2.3k]

You mean movement with separate keyframes? Use folders.

[elvandar 3]

Thank you very much for your answer. Yes it would be amazing for that to be implemented, I have ... all my characters walking off grid haha. Thanks again

[elvandar 3]

Nope, I mean for example if I turn a character on the Y axis, then the positional axis handles of the character remain in world space as opposed to the characters. So to move a character forward one must use Z and X axis instead of just one as in most 3D apps once change more world to local motion. Does this make more sense?

[elvandar 3]

Maybe this is also what Cubic Ralsei meant. Regardless thank you very much this will do! Much appreciated this will help tons. Special thanks for making a small gif for me to understand better. =D