Can we match the Gumball to the drag mode?

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Is there a way to orient the gumball to the drag mode? For example, I would like to have the gumball in view mode all the time or in control polygon.
Right now I found no way to do that. I use this every day and I have to disable the gumball to be able to use the dragmode. What I’m missing?
See the attached video in 3D Max. That is what I’m looking for.

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Thank you for the video, but that is not what I’m looking for. Of course I could manually align the gumball to almost any location that I want, but I 'm looking to an automatic align to the drag mode options, like in the video I posted. specially to the normal, view or screen and control polygon mode.

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you have these options with the gumball:

Command: -gumballalignment
Gumball alignment ( CPlane Object World ):

“Object” will use the UVW information of the selected CP or average them if you select more than one.

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Those option are good, but we only have thee option. I would like to also have screen (view), normal and Control polygon. Non of the current three option do what those drag mode do.
So, I have to disable the gumball, to get the correct effect.
For example,

  • create a curve
  • Enable the control point
  • Try to move the control point along their axes (control polygon). This doesn’t work
  • disable the gumball
  • grange the dragmode to Control Polygon
  • move the control points. You will see that they move properly along their axes.
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I understand you, I just outlined what is available right now.
I would also welcome to have a synchronized behavior of the two manipulation types.

Command: -DragMode
Select drag mode. Select the same mode again to reset drag mode
( CPlane World View UVN ControlPolygon Next ):

Command: -gumballalignment
Gumball alignment ( CPlane Object World ):

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