Description
Welcome to Group Move Tool
Easily transform many objects at once, as a group.
Key Features
- Translate and rotate your selected objects together as a group.
- Works with complex heirarchies.
- Relocate pivots on the fly.
How to install?
Use the Package Manager for quickly installing and updating tools, get it here:
Package Manager Getting Started
Quick Start Guide
| # | Step | More Info |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Select | Select all the controls or objects you'd like to manipulate. |
| 2 | Click | Activate the Group Move Tool by clicking on the button. |
| 3 | Move/Rotate/Scale | Move your objects, when you release the objects will update their positions. |
| 4 | Finish | Deselect the Group Move node to exit the tool. |
Tips and Tricks
Change the Pivots
- Hit the Insert key when the tool is active to move the pivot point.
Try scale!
- Using scale will move objects closer or farther apart.
Falloff
- Adjust the falloff from the channel box.
Manual Installation (Advanced Users Only)
The Package Manager makes installing a simple process, Package Manager Getting Started Although, if you still need to do this manually here's how.
Tools should be installed to a common eblabs_hub folder. The install path should be one folder up from the eblabs_hub folder. Make sure that there are blank __init__.py files within all folders.
Folder Structure
.
├── eblabs_hub
└── __init__.py
└── package_id
├── __init__.py
└── unzip package contents here
Manual Command
install_path = 'E:/path/to/maya/scripts'
package_id = 'GroupMoveTool'
import os
import sys
if not install_path in sys.path:
sys.path.insert(0, install_path)
import eblabs_hub.GroupMoveTool.scripts.GroupMoveTool as tool
tool.GroupMove()
Davide (verified owner) –
Great tool, but more important great support! TNX Eric!
Davide
nick (verified owner) –
Group Move Tool does exactly what you want, allowing you to move multiple controls or objects relative to each other in a fast and intuitive way, eliminating time wasting creating unnecessary groups and locators.
morgread@gmail.com (verified owner) –
This tool is an absolute pleasure to use and has literally saved me days of work.
Jonathan (verified owner) –
awesome tool, I add 4 stars only because there is sometime a error message when I use the picker to select controls of the character.
And when I select manualy in the scene it work. And sometimes the temporary global control do not appear, so I repead the selection and he didn’t work anymore. Have to take the previous saved file to do it correctly. Don’t know why.
But when it works it save me so much time XD Thanks for this tool !
Adelmo83 (verified owner) –
Great tool!, Group Move Tool is an indispensable tool, easy and handy to use!!.