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Phattee

02-23-2009, 10:50 PM

Hello,

I have a number of poly objects that I would like to move equidistantly from a central point. Imagine you have something like an egg, and you've carved out the shell into separate pieces. Now you want them all to "explode" outward from the central point of the egg. How would you do that?

The only thing I've tried so far is assigning each piece to a cluster, grouping them, and then scaling up the group, but that also scales up the object attached to the cluster.

Pete2003

02-24-2009, 09:57 AM

Create a locator at the centre of every object.
Parent-constrain every object to its respective locator.
Group the locators.
Scale the group.

I just tried that and it seems to work, Im not sure how many objects you're dealing with though so it'd probably be easier to script the setup process. Scripting isn't my thing though :)

Good luck.
Pete.

Phattee

02-25-2009, 01:40 AM

Thank you! Awesome portfolio btw!

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