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A manipulator. It lets you scale and move your object in the scene.
As in, if I do searches using the key word "manipulator", I'll find info I'm looking for?
manipulator or widget should work between them.
what do you need to know about it. I pretty much told you what it does. About the only other thing you can do with it is scale it bigger or smaller I think and turn it on and off. It may do another thing or two as far as preferences. If your doing a search in Daz Studio, I'm not sure if use it as a keyword for a search if it will give you any results. I've never tried that. Someone else may be able to answer that for you. I think the search feature only searches content.
I have a thread in the commons section (that Richard has participated in) but I'm calling it a "thing" so I came here hoping to find an actual term.
I call it a gizmo
Right now, I'm calling it annoying to position where I want it :(
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/167591/reposition-joints-center-points#latest
Sorry, confused the terms widget and gizmo.
How do you control display of the manipulator? I've done something to cause it to display like the image Scavenger posted above--except it seems that white box in the corner is proportionally much larger--and when I try to use the Active Pose tool, after I click on a body part such as a finger bone, the manipulator appears and draws over it, covering it so that virtually anything I click on would activate some function of the manipulator rather than moving the bone. To see parts and reposition them, I have to click on something else--and hope that other part doesn't jump out of place just from being selected--and then possibly click on the desired part again and start dragging before the manipulator appears. I suppose I activated this form of display through a stray press of some hotkey, but I've searched through the menus and so far found no way to reduce the manipulator's size or turn off any parts of it so the selected body part will be visible and manipulable.
The universal and active pose tools have similar but different gizmos, universal has rotation and scale as well as translation, active pose has just translation and the white corner manipulators are squares rather than corners. You can turn off the gizmo for active pose in the tool settings tab (or by shift clicking on a body part), which you will likely have to open manually from the dropdown menus of the top menu bar. Universal tool is not as precise and the pins do not work as well as active pose. To precisely move things once you select the item/body part click the 'center in viewport' button so your view zooms in to what youre selecting, then zoom back out a bit so you can see what youre doing, should not have much issue with the gizmo geting in the way.
Thank you, gederix; that helped! I loaded DAZ Studio 4.9 on my Mac at work so I could try this immediately. What I found is that when you use the Active Pose Tool, tapping the Shift key toggles manipulator visibility. Tap once to make it visible, and it will remain so until you tap Shift again to hide it.