GRENDEL1 posted at 3:19AM Sat, 26 December 2020 - #4408580

....What I want to know though is why I can't just get the door to follow it's own axis? Seems super basic, I don't know why it won't work...

The own axis is normally used for internal purposes only: location of vertices and child actors. What you are looking for indeed is mathematically simple but it is difficult to implement in a GUI like Poser has without bloating the whole thing. Translation in an own axis adds 3 dials. Of course if translation is there where are rotation and scaling? That adds another 9 dials to the already crowded parameter palette.

Poser is truly GUI driven. It does not have the 'command line with graphical shortcuts for selected commands' we see in other 3D apps. The consequence is that the number of commands one can practically implement is limited and decisions must be made. This is the first time I hear someone asking for this so it would seem the function is not missed too dearly and the decision not to implement transformation relative to local axis was a good one.

It would be a qualifyjng candidate for the goodies box though.