Transform Matrix after Freeze Transforms

[inspleak]

Hey all,

I've been wrestling with this problem for a day or so now, and I've had no real luck, so I implore the knowledge of others. Here goes:

What I want to do is take an object, and put it in the same place, using the same scale and rotation as a locator. Much to my surprise I have it working, until I freeze transform on the object. Here is what I have so far:

string $locName = "locator1";
string $objName = "pCone1";
float $locMatrix[16];

//First store the Locator transformMatrix
$locMatrix = xform -q -ws -m $locName;

//apply matrix to the object
xform -ws -m $locMatrix[0] $locMatrix[1] $locMatrix[2] $locMatrix[3] $locMatrix[4] $locMatrix[5] $locMatrix[6] $locMatrix[7] $locMatrix[8] $locMatrix[9] $locMatrix[10] $locMatrix[11] $locMatrix[12] $locMatrix[13]
$locMatrix[14] $locMatrix[15]
$objName;

Now like I said this takes "pCone1" and uses the location and transform info of "locator1" until I freeze transforms on "pCone1".

I figured that wouldn't work, but I'm not entirely sure why and more importantly how to make it work on an object that has been frozen.

So if anyone out there has any ideas or even a theory they are willing to tell, I would be forever grateful!

Thanks so much!

Oh, I forgot to mention that I was doing it before by using constraints but I can't in this instance with the way things work in this case. However even doing it that way gets a bit wierd if the transforms have been frozen and then other transformations have been done to the object.

[failure]

It works with frozen objects too just that the results are probably not what you expect. When you freeze the geometry it's transform node matrix is set to identity ( no transformations ) and components are localy transformed to retain same "position" of the object.

So freezing is like seting all transformations to "none" and moving/rotating vetices to a new positions.

When you look at it that way you'll see that what you are interpreting as "won't work" is in fact something that is working perfectly.

[inspleak]

Hey thanks for the reply.

Ah ha! So is there a way to "unfreeze" the transforms after its been frozen? I would imaging that the data simply isn't there anymore, (unless the local offset of each vertex is stored some place), to make it give the same results.

Thanks!

[failure]

Freezing transformations puts transformGeometry node in the object's history. Delete that node to return to state before freezing.

[inspleak]

Ahh nice... Maybe I can get more information out of that node. Very cool, thanks agian for the help