Offset & Scale¶
OVB gives you two ways to move and scale imported art, and they land in very different places. Knowing which is which saves a lot of confusion downstream.
Both gizmos work the same — drag inside to offset, drag a corner handle to scale. Only the colour differs: blue moves one art layer's vector, green moves the whole drawing.
Art-layer transform — the blue gizmo¶
Selecting (soloing) an art layer shows its blue gizmo. Scale and Offset here apply directly to that art layer's vector — the geometry itself is transformed. Use it to fit or nudge one layer relative to the others (line art vs its colour fill, say).
- Lives on the art layer (per subartlayer).
- Bakes into the vector — it changes the imported geometry.
- Fields: Scale X / Y and Offset X / Y in the Art Layer & Sequence card.
Peg transform — the green gizmo¶
On the composite of a drawing that has a peg (a +Peg node), the green gizmo appears. Scale and Offset here ride on the peg, not the drawing — the whole drawing moves as one, and the values stay live and animatable in Harmony.
- Lives on the drawing's peg (whole-drawing).
- Rides on the peg — the vector content stays clean, full-resolution, editable.
- The green box scales the entire drawing about its centre.
Which should I use?¶
| Art-layer (blue) | Peg (green) | |
|---|---|---|
| Affects | one art layer's vector | the whole drawing |
| Where it lands | baked into the geometry | on the peg (live/animatable) |
| Use for | aligning layers to each other | positioning/scaling the drawing in the scene |
Full-res content, editable transform
Because the peg carries the transform, a +Peg drawing imports its content at scale 1.0 (full resolution) and the scale/offset stay as editable peg values in Harmony — you can re-tweak or key them later without re-importing.
Snapping helps
Turn on snapping in the Previewer to align a gizmo to the field grid while you drag.