Noob questions on Maya manipulator

Krisonrik

Well, I am trying to select multiple faces and move/roate/scale according to each individual normal. I know that when extruding a face, the combined manipulator showed up and I can do exactly what I wanted above. But when I am out of the extrude mode, and simple select multiple faces, I can't get that combined manipulator to show up again. Max and Blender both can achieve this very simply. So I'm sure Maya should be able to do it, just that I'm too dumb to figure it out. Thanks in advance.　

PredatorGSR

You can double click on the Translate icon on the left hand column of icons. Choose "Normal" for the move axis, select the vertices you want to move, and move them how you want. It will move each vertice along the specified normal axis. The limitation is it can only do it by verticies, not faces, but you can select multiple vertices to make up faces, and it should achieve the result you are looking for.

This is in 2008, I assume it will be the same or similar in other versions.

MoP

You can also try SHIFT + Right Click -> Transform Component with a selection of verts, edges or faces.

ralusek

if i had a dime for every MoP-suggested shift+rmb

MoP

you'd have 4 dimes (so far)