I’m currently trying to find a way of passing the world-space transformations of a group node to its constituent members, without actually changing their positions relative to the group transform.

Reason being, I have a distance-based search algorithm looking for curves in a scene. Since it checks the WS positions of each individual curve, it needs to be able to read their absolute WS position. I’ve tried reading the Xform using the cmds.xform() command with absolute, and world-space set to true, with no luck.

The procedure works absolutely fine if the curves are un-grouped and simply transformed around the scene, it only falls over if they’re grouped.

Any suggestions?

Ungroup the curves then query their world-space position, then restore the parent child relationship. It’s odd that xform doesn’t work, I use it often.

Disregard my request. I’ve had to sacrifice my scene management in order to work around this problem. Its a small price to pay, just would rather have been able to avoid it!