pivoting hinges while frozen

[jakedmoon]

so say you make 2 circles then a skinny box then hing them together like this

O-----O (excuse my bad example i cant figure out how to post a screenshot)


then you try to move one of the cirles down then you get something like this

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O (the vertical line with the small circle in the middle is where the hinge stretched)

this can cause much annoyance when your tryng to make a transmission or something
so i had the idea of make the hinges pivot when you move the object
like this

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O (notice how the hinge doesnt stretch and the skinny box rotates)


again sorry for the bad examples this was the best i could do

[Chronos]

Rotate it. It does exactly what you want.

[CasperFalandysz]

about the screen shot look at top of key board there is a button called "Prt Sc" press it it will copy the screen then open paint or something and press control v that will paste it into paint then save and you can use it as you wants no fancy stuff needed

[jakedmoon]

okay i could rotate it with this example but what if you have something like this

O====O (two skinny boxes now)


it would stretch the hinges if i tried to rotate it this way


also i know how to get the screenshot saved but i cant get it into the forums

[Rrobba]

this can cause much annoyance

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

[jakedmoon]

i realize that there are bigger things to worry about this is simply a suggestion
the grain of sand makes it more difficult to conquer the mountain while its very possible it would take that much longer

[Rrobba]

i realize that there are bigger things to worry about this is simply a suggestion
the grain of sand makes it more difficult to conquer the mountain while its very possible it would take that much longer

I understand, don't think I'm trying to put your suggestion down; I'm not, I am simply saying there are probably ways of getting around this issue and there are bigger problems to worry about.

[jakedmoon]

i agree that there are much bigger problems to worry about
this is kind of a if you can get to it anyway

[Someone Else]

Really, I like how the hinges stretch. What really annoys me is when they don't. I often use stretched hinges to make big things fit within a small space and immediately snap back out when the sim is started. Also, sometimes when I try to rotate something like your skinny box thing without rotating one of the circles, I select the box, one circle, and its hinge, I want all the selected to rotate about the other hinge. But, what happens is the box and circle rotate about some point between the hinges or something weird like that. That, I think, is what needs to be fixed.
Let me know if that made no sense.

[jakedmoon]

i agree that sometimes stretching hinges are very good things but maybe as an option

and i get what your saying that could be improved to