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RobertBianchi

01-17-2006, 11:21 PM

Im in school working on a rig for a class project. Im wanting to make a control using the maya text. I have the word LIFT made from maya curves, but I want to be able to click on any of the letters and have it select all of them as if it were one curve/control. Ive believe that I have seen it done before, bu I am unsure of how to do it, if anyone knows how it would be greatly appreciated if you would share that knowledge with me.

Thanks,
Robert

Using Maya 7.0

Goon

01-18-2006, 02:19 AM

Parent the all the shape nodes under the same transform.

parent -r -s shapeNode transformNode

Andimation

01-18-2006, 04:49 PM

Here's a simple little script of mine that will combine lots of shapes into one transform. In the case of text just make sure u unparent them from the default group, select all the shapes and run the script.

Just a time saver

ap_Shape 2.0

A script that combines several nurbs curves under one transform node. Useful for making control curves for rigs.

Download (http://www.andy-phillips.com/mel/ap_Shape.rar)

RobertBianchi

01-19-2006, 09:58 PM

Thanks I appreciated it they both worked perfectly : )

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