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cgeric
06-21-2009, 09:56 AM
In move tool attribute, maya has lots of axis to use; world, object, normal, and set to face...
but in rotate and scale , there no axis to choose(in rotate , there's 3 type of axis, but they are all the same, makes no diffrents), that means if I freeze the transformation, I can only scale and rotate object in world axis!!! That make no sense... I can change the Axis so easy in XSI. But Maya... wish there's a way to figure this problem out...Thanks.
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ErikSvensson
06-21-2009, 10:04 AM
As far as I know the scale only works if you haven't frozen the transformations after a
rotation. Scale doesn't work on a sub-component basis unfortunately. The only time it "aligns" again is if you extrude a face, then you can scale the new faces in component space.

Erik
GrogMcGee
06-21-2009, 03:04 PM
You can't. You can try Local Tools (http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/mel_scripts/modeling/curve_tools/3717.html)

You can move along verts along a normal, or use the the transform component.
cgeric
06-22-2009, 09:00 AM
Thanks, really, even the answer is "NO"
Wish maya can do some improvements on next version, now I know why lots people says XSI modeling is better than Maya, not only the "M" tool...