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Tycane

01-10-2011, 02:00 PM

Hi there.

I'm having a little problem with an older model I am revisiting.
The model is a robot, and I used a lot of pistons in it, nowadays I build
everything on scale, but not back then, so now that I have
scene for it I find I need to rescale the model, but ofcourse all
the pistons I used in the model won't scale with the rest and it
Would be massive task to go in each piston and change it's parameters.

I put it in the rigging section coz I think it's similar to trying
to scale a rigged mesh.

Any help would be appreciated.

scrimski

01-10-2011, 02:19 PM

Try adding an Xform modifier and scaling it's gizmo.

There's also an Adjust to Scale utiliy which allows you to rescale everything(not sure about the exact name though).

Tycane

01-11-2011, 11:32 AM

Hey thanks!

I tried the reset Xform but that kinda crashed max coz of the large amount of parts i think, but i did find the rescale world units, and that worked nicely, thanks!

MattRennie

01-12-2011, 01:05 PM

One thing you could try is add a new root node to your rig and scale that.

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