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How to move all zspheres at once?

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#1

Hi guys. This feels like a super dumb question, and I don’t know I new the answer and forgot it or just never ran into it before.

Been away from using zspheres for awhile. Have set up a zsphere rig for a character. Want to move/rotate all the spheres in the rig at once to position the character better in the scene before I pose, as if I was using the cog or world control in a normal rig. I know I can move/rotate more than one using the zsphere hierarchy, but I don’t seem to be able to select anything above the root zsphere to actually move/translate everything at once.

Is there a way to select and move all the zpheres in a hierarchy including the root, to translate/rotate the character or model around the scene?

#2

Hold down Alt and click and drag on the first connector spheres directly above or directly below the root ZSphere. This will only work to move them and not rotate or scale.

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#3

Using the Tool Deformations might do the trick for rotating, resizing, and offsetting.

#4

Cheers guys. Alt, click and drag works perfect for translate, thank you. Just tried using deformation>rotate but it only rotates the zsphere rig, not the mesh it’s bound to, so it breaks things. Was a good idea to try though.

I think I might just add a step, tpose things into position first, and then do the zphere rig/posing after that.