Position gizmo doesn't behave like I expected

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Trying to understand here. When I have a gizmo attached to a mesh, after I rotate the mesh, I then swap to the position gizmo and drag it on one axis (for example the ‘x’ arrow).

The mesh position then changes (of course) but I expect it to only change in the x axis(?).

I am assuming the rotation is applied before the position, so the position gizmo is working in local coordinates(?)

I am trying to get a rotation and position from the moved mesh so I can apply it elsewhere, but I don’t know why I am getting changes in 2 axis.

So

  1. I rotate the mesh around the x axis.
  2. I move the mesh along the y axis.
  3. I expect the meshs rotation to the change in x only and the position to be changed in y only.
    what am I getting wrong here?
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Testing it on the default scene playground, the gizmo operates on the current node transformation, so if you have some rotation it will be taken into account and the Y translation will be done in the rotated coordinate system.

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cc @Cedric, maybe there are some options to Gizmo to change this behavior.

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Thanks for the info - I actually solved my problem by re-organising things a bit - all works great now.

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