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Transforms

Look at the Inspector for your Spatial node. Instead of a Position property, you now have Translation, as well as Rotation Degrees and Scale. As you move the object around, observe how these values change. Note that the Translation represents the object's coordinates relative to the origin:

You'll also notice a Transform property, which also changes as you move and rotate the object. When you change translation or rotation, you'll notice that the 12 transform quantities will change as well.

A full explanation of the math behind transforms is beyond the scope of this book, but in a nutshell, a transform is a matrix that describes ...