Selection Pivot

[blakestone]

I have spent the last few hours looking through the help file and can not find anywhere how to obtain the location of the selected vertices, edges, faces etc. pivot.

It clearly shows it in the following 2 locations (see attachment) however I'm not sure how to get these values?

[Steve_Curley]

Good question. Can be done for an Editable Mesh - averageSelVertCenter < node > - but like you I can't find an equivalent for an Editable Poly. Probably one of those things which is blindingly obvious - once you've been told how to do it 😉

[blakestone]

Nice find, however a quick test and it does not appear to give the expected results (see attachment).

[Steve_Curley]

Hmmm, I created a Plane, converted to Editable Mesh, selected 4 vertices and entered "averageSelVertCenter $" into the listener. Same values as were being displayed in the 3 spinners at the bottom of the Max window.
I just tried

 b = Box pos: (averageSelVertCenter $)

and it created a box whose pivot point agreed with the aforementioned "center" of the 4 selected vertices. "$" MUST be an Editable Mesh - that function returns undefined if it's an Editable Poly.

Still need to find an equivalent method of obtaining that information from an Editable Poly though 😞