Aligning Vertexes

[puzzledpaul]

Am not familiar with Maya and what to use depends somewhat on exactly what you're trying to achieve.

If you're wanting to do what I think is the most likely, then one way:

Select vert you want to move
Vert | Scale uniform (use RMB option, choose point ... etc)
Select destination vert
Drag 0% (hold shift to constrain)
accept.

You'll need Advanced Menus enabled (Edit | prefs -> Advanced) and to tidy up after, select whole object and use Object | Cleanup (note vert count figure before / after in top left readout)

You might also want to checkout the Flatten / Intersect / Scale to a point pages on the linked site ?

pp


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[lovisx]

any newz on wether they're going to improve this in wings?

[puzzledpaul]

<< any newz >>
Nope, sorry ...

Obviously, making life easier for yourself via various prefs is sensible as is assigning the procedure to be a Default Command if you wanna do lots of 'em - but you'd already be familiar with these, I suspect :)

pp

[DarrellD]

Oh wow! It's the real puzzledpaul! Thanks for the info. I was checking out your site yesterday.

[puzzledpaul]

<< real >>
Hmmm ... didn't see any reflection last time I checked a mirror, so dunno :)

Hope the Q's been sorted, btw

[lovisx]

procedure to be a Default Command

good point, but from my knowledge you can only set the uniform scale to a hotkey and not the right click options. Is there a way to set the right click options to hotkeys?

[puzzledpaul]

Correct, no 'usual' way of assigning R(M)B options to hotkeys - but once you've done one rmb uni-scale and assigned same to a Def Cmmd, it's easy enough to access?

However, Elrond79 (coder of Intersect) produced a (hotkey) hack for rmb options etc - that's the 'good' news :)

Bad news is it's in G+G forum at odf and I don't know where - was embedded in a thread about other stuff, from memory (so no clue in title)- I never tried it so dunno about effectiveness etc.

That's the best I can offer, sorry :)

Maybe someone who's tried it could be more helpful?

pp

Edit - I was wrong - was in Q+A and about magnet ops - but alluded to rmb ones etc


http://p212.ezboard.com/fnendowingsmiraifrm3.showMessage?topicID=957.topic

[dAfTiE]

Wow,that's awesome PP.
I missed the original thread,going to mess around with it now.

[Fro Lee]

I have successfully managed to hotkey the magnet operations in the manner described by Elrond.

Here is the syntax:
{{bindkey,face,{97,[alt,ctrl]}},{face,{move,{'ASK',{[magnet],[free]}}}},user}.
{{bindkey,face,{115,[alt,ctrl]}}, {face,{rotate,{'ASK',{[magnet],[center,free]}}}}, user}.
{{bindkey,face,{100,[alt,ctrl]}}, {face,{scale,{'ASK',{[magnet],[center]}}}}, user}.

you can replace 'face' for 'edge' or 'vertex' to affect edges and vertices instead of faces. 97. 115. and 100 are the a, s, and d keys respectively - those were found using experimentation. The reason, I did not put free in the scale was because scale did not depend on the view with which you scale - as interpreted by wings refusing to start :)

I am not sure if you can hotkey vertex scaling towards another vertex but its worth a try.

- Fro.

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