How to determine the Z of an attachment point

[Pharaoh_]

I currently face a problem with a model. I tried attaching stuff to it, but a model I used as an armor with the reference of "chest" appears on the head, while the reference of "head" appears under the jaw of the unit.

I tried to edit the Z of the respective attachment points, but they don't respond to my changes nor I know what Z to type there. How can I determine the proper height?

 

[PROXY]

You can try that out with particle emitters in magos.

Create (or use a default one) and play with it's x, y and z axis. That way you can easily see where you need to put it. Just copy the numbers to the attachment point.

If you don't know how you can edit these things, open a model in magos, go to node manager (at the windows tab), right click a particle emitter (or later the attachment point) and edit the values. It clearly shows x - y - z axis.

 

[GhostThruster]

Um use MdlVis. You can actually see the position of nodes.

MdlVis is better than Magos at everything except the little extras (such as cameras, particles, etc.).

 

[PROXY]

MdlVis is often buggy if you don't know how to use it. Beside, in Magos you can see the nodes too ^^

 

[GhostThruster]

No you can't...all you can do is enter in some random numbers and hope the object moves in the right position.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Thank you guys, I'll check on MDLVis, since I could not figure how exactly I was supposed to reproduce your method, Fan and since MDLVis was proved to be a life savior once.

Thanks for the inputs!