Maya Scale Pivot

Nemlet17

Hey-O Polycounters,

Was just doing an art test and my scale tool is going all out of whack. Spent 30 minutes trying to figure it out / Google but no luck. So When I extrude a face and then want to scale it, the pivot goes way out in world space.

Picture:
http://i415.photobucket.com/albums/pp234/Nemlet101/Help_zps6214277b.jpg


Thanks and much appreciated,
Zack

BARDLER

It could be something with the group structure because objects inherent pivots. Try un parenting it completely and that freeze transformations and center pivot.

Brygelsmack

This happens to me too sometimes. Would love to know if Bardler's advice works! Can't try it myself because I don't know how to reproduce it.

antweiler

Its an often overlooked but very useful featurefor working with components! When you select some vertices, you may want to snap the pivot to some specific point, and keep this when changing the selection. To do this, select some verts, keep "d" pressed, and klick on the small blue circle above your scale manipulator. When you are on a large scale, this small circle is very close to the manip. Im sure you hit this inadvertently. To get default behavior back, click again on the blue circle, change the selection, and the pivot is auto centered again.
Look under "To keep the pivot in place while working with components":
http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2013/en_us/index.html?url=files/Transforming_objects_Change_the_pivot_point.htm,topicNumber=d30e18486

Nemlet17

I totally forgot the post was here. Bardler's method work! Thanks and sorry for the late response.

Thanks antweiler, learned something I didn't know about.

Best Regards,
Zack