How to mirror an object without -1 scale?

[Jozvex]

I think Max's 'Mirror Tool' does just duplicate and scale by -1, but it freezes the tranformations (Xform) afterwards. And it has more options.

If you don't want the object to have a -1 scale then do a Freeze Tranformations on it!

As for the camera, if you select all the camera's channels in the Channel Box, then right click and say 'Lock', that should work.

[ilasolomon]

Thanx a lot pal. :)

[SPENEN]

I think you can also go into the duplicate options and set -1 instead of 1, the duplicate object will still be scaled 1,1,1 i think, but mirrored of course.

,.-'`SPENEN´'-.,

[webster]

Polygon -> Mirror Geometry could help a little bit.
It merges the (Only Poly-)Objects, deletes Multi-Edges,
but again with "-X".
If it´s just a time-thing, clear your script-editor, do the process once, (adjust pivot, duplicate etc.). Select the code and drop it on the shelf



Camera:
You can "save" different camviews by going in View->Bookmarks->Edit->New Bookmark (if you want, hit "Add to Shelf)
So you can save different view angles and switch by button shelves, if you want, even hotkeys

[dwalden74]

I think I wrote a duplicate symmetry tool like this. If you want I could look for it and post it. If I remember correctly it mirrors an object along a user-specified plane without the negative scale... Let me know if this would help.

:beer:
David

[playmesumch00ns]

I wrote a tool that lets you mirror changes across symmetrical geometry without the whole cut-in-half-duplicate-thing. Useful for when you want to make symmetrical changes and you've already done the UVs. It's in the MEL scripts sticky thread.

[ilasolomon]

Thanx friends, & I think the script sulotions that dwalden74 & playmesumch00ns offer is what I want! :) thanx again
Ila

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