MB Tutorial Part 68: Store Preference Mode by Transform Mode Video Lecture | A Complete Course: Motion Builder - Professional Skills

in this video we're going to take a look
at a very simple and yet very very
convenient new feature inside of
motionbuilder 6 which is the ability to
store reference modes by the respective
transform mode now what I mean by that
is in the past when you are transforming
an object inside of MotionBuilder and
just for our demo i'll bring in a sphere
that we can play with if you were to
change your reference mode for one tool
it'll change it for every single tool so
right now I'm moving this object in
global space if i switch to rotate i'm
also in global so let's say i switch
over to local for this tool when i
switch back to the move tool it's now in
local as well so this reference mode is
being carried along throughout all of
our different transform tools now in
MotionBuilder six we no longer have to
do this we can set a different reference
mode for each of our transformation
tools very easily done to under the
settings preferences window we can go
into interface and we have just a simple
checkbox store reference mode by
transform mode activate this under the
the viewer toolbar area click ok and
there's no real need to restart a
machine for this now as I'm moving my
object around notice we're in local mode
if I switch over to global mode and then
switch over to my rotate tool notice
it's still in local if I switch over to
scale which is currently in global we
can switch it to local and if I go back
to the move tool he's still in global so
I'm managing to keep all of my reference
modes independent for each tool that I
use very handy if you like to say move
your objects in global space but still
rotate them locally so I know this is a
really quick video but it's a very very
easy but a very very convenient feature
inside of MotionBuilder six very happy
that they added it so that's going to
wrap it up thanks a lot