Flow Test

 From:  Michael Gibson
4487.61 In reply to 4487.55 
Hi Bard,

> We should to take a "group" and align it with one another
> objet. This thing is impossible to do in MoI, isn't it?

It's possible in MoI right now - you just select all the objects that you wish to transform and the transformation command will work on them like a group.

For example if you have an assembly of 5 objects and you want them to stay together in the same relation, just select all 5 of them and then rotate them and they will all rotate as if they were a group.

But the main purpose of the Flow command is to deform objects to conform to the target object - if you want the objects to stay undeformed there is a "rigid" option to Flow which you can enable to do that, or possibly you may want to use the Transform > Orient command to reposition the group rather than using Flow:

See here for some details on using the Orient command:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3424.13
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3424.14
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4228.9
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3660.5
http://moi3d.com/2.0/docs/moi_command_reference8.htm#orient


I do plan on adding in a Group function to MoI, but it will pretty much be a convenience thing to make it a bit easier to select multiple objects by clicking on just one of them. You can already treat objects like groups in the current version of MoI just by selecting them all before you do the transformation.

- Michael