On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:37 am, Ryan Zerby wrote:
> Is there someway that I can set the origin of a morphs local
> coordinate system, so that all of
> it's submorphs use the local coordinate system, rather than the global
> system?  Currently, I
> pass an offset down the tree every time I run 'step.'   Changing the
> local coordinate system
> seems more object oriented to me (rather than having to know about the
> actual location of my parent, I should be able to just move relative
> to the parent).

This is what TransformMorph and TransformationMorph do; they hold a local 
transform and convert to their own coordinate space when talking to their 
submorphs.

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