Unusual behavior in a linkset with mesh combined with prims

[Jaymes Capalini]

I've got an item that is a Christmas tree made with strands of Christmas lights that are meshes, attached to a root prim that is a cylinder (pole).  There are 8 strands of lights, so eight mesh items, arrayed around the pole.

The cylinder is definitely the root prim, but I noticed an odd thing when I attempt to rotate the object.  It does not rotate around the root prim.  Instead, it picks what appears to be a middle point of all the objects in the set, and rotates around that.

Is that normal for a link set with mesh objects in it?

[Rage Riptide]

yep

[Jaymes Capalini]

OK then

Out of curiosity.  If the prim pole was replaced with another mesh object, would it still act the same way?  In other words, is this because of linking mesh with non mesh items, or is it just the way mesh is?

[arton Rotaru]

That's the case for any linkset. It rotates around the center of the linkset, not around the center of the root prim.

Edit: To rotate it around the root, use the the Rotation x,y,z spinner in the edit floater under the Object tab. This way it rotates around the root instead of the center.

[Jaymes Capalini]

OK yep.. i'm so used to having my head stuck in a script that I forgot that.

[lucidtest Jinx]

could make thin extending prim in an X shape that extend past everything and is centered on the pole

it will rotate corectly then