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Kyle Aug 8, 2017 @ 3:56pm
[HELP] Invisible rotation/translation tool manipulator (No, i didnt press Q)
So this is happening constantly, specially after opening a project after closing SFM. It randomly fixes itself as I work on other stuff, but keeps coming back, and I has hoping to fix it for good since its very annoying and kind of unables me to work comfortably.

Pic for reference: https://image.ibb.co/buKgMa/translation.jpg

As you can see im on the animation editor and using the translation tool, yet no translation manipulator appears, only the blue square from the middle.

It's even worse for the rotation tool, since there appears nothing at all. The manipulator IS STILL THERE.

I can reach for it and use it, but its INVISIBLE for some reason, which as you may guess, is very troubling to animate properly and in a comfortable way.

Anyone else got this, and/or knows how to fix it? Thank you very much

Edit: FIXED thanks to the guy below me, read his comment!
Last edited by Kyle; Aug 8, 2017 @ 4:19pm
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episoder Aug 8, 2017 @ 4:14pm 
what do you do to break it? i know this happens when you change the camera's znear to 0 in the element viewer. maybe check if it's atleast 1.

far from that i have no clue how this could happen.
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Kyle Aug 8, 2017 @ 4:18pm 
Originally posted by episoder:
what do you do to break it? i know this happens when you change the camera's znear to 0 in the element viewer. maybe check if it's atleast 1.

far from that i have no clue how this could happen.

DAMN i LOVE you

I had been looking around for this and it happened to a couple of people before, but they never got it fixed.

And yes, i had the near at 0 since im doing a POV animation and i had elements very close to the camera, so that was what caused it apparently, didn't know that was the cause.

Now that i think about it it makes sense, because at first it only happened on my scene camera, but then at some point i copied my camera settings into my work camera since it glitched out, so from that point both cameras were unable to see the manipulators.

So if someone runs into this same problem, this might be the cause.

Again, thank you so much for your help, really appreciated!
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Date Posted: Aug 8, 2017 @ 3:56pm
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