Grouped Object Model Not Moving At the Same Time(Maya)

tonkz

Hello guys,

I would love if you could help me with my problem. I'm a beginner in Maya and I just finish working on my first model(spaceship). I tried grouping all the files in one single group, but the problem is when I tried moving them as one unit they break a part. Do you guys have an idea how to fix this?

haiddasalami

mind showing some pictures? No idea what the break apart means.

tonkz

Here it is:


I hope the pictures clarify it

nightronin

It looks like the objects are moving based off of their original pivot points. It might be a simple fix of centering the pivots on each item

tonkz

nightronin wrote: »

It looks like the objects are moving based off of their original pivot points. It might be a simple fix of centering the pivots on each item

Although your suggestion didn't work, your help is definitely appreciated. Thank you. :poly142:

throttlekitty

Do you have _only_ the group node selected when moving?

o2_is_alright

Do you have _only_ the group node selected when moving?

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Also try change the "Move axis" setting to world in the move tool settings.

tonkz

I'm not really sure what is group node(enlighten me) that your talking about. The output you see in the pictures was the result of using a marque tool to form a rectangular box around the plane to select all of them. I also tried to select one part of the plane and use the up arrow key until I have all of the parts of the plane in the group, which I got the same result, broken airship.


Edit:

I fixed it I was on the custom orientation in the move tool :poly136:. I'm not sure how I went there as I never touch that section before. Anyway thank you for helping me guys. Hopefully I can grow and learn from my NOOB mistakes:poly122:.

throttlekitty

Still, learning how to manage groups will be useful to you. With any selection active, Ctrl-g creates a group, which you can then refer back to in the outliner/hypergraph, and has its own transform.

If you tried to select your ship parts and scale them, Maya would use the pivots of each object to scale by, but their position wouldn't change. Scaling the group node would scale the whole ship as if it was a single object.