maya scales as i rotate.

FactoriesBurning

so. i've run into this twice so far. Randomly, i'll have an object that get's squished when i rotate it. picture A is it's normal state, picture B is it's distorted state after it is rotated 90 degrees in any direction.

If i duplicate the object, the same thing happens. Freezing transformations/Deleting history doesn't help. It also happens if I enter a rotation value into the channel box. The only fix i've found is to export the object as an obj and reimport it, which is ridiculous. Anybody else experience this? what causes it? is it a bug, or did i do something wrong?

Philistyne

Your object is parented to something. SHIFT+P will un-parent it and fix this problem.

Illusions

I'm kind of interested in what could be causing this, as I've never experienced it personally, outside of having a deformer of some sort applied...which should be remedied if you delete history. Is it possible for you to post the Maya file? Or if the scene is too heavy, just the object itself?

kodde

You've got a hierarchical node above the object which has an awkward scale? For instance a group?

It's very easy to recreate this dilemma. Make any new object in Maya, group it, scale the group along one axis. Now select the object and rotate it. Skeeeeeweeeeed.

gabby64

Hi, this usually happens when you extract /detach polygons. Not sure why it happens, and deleting the history does not help, nor does closing and restarting maya. To get around the problem:

1. create a new poly object
2. combine the new object to the one with scaling issues
3. separate the two objects again.
This usually takes care of the problem, and is easier than exporting and reimporting an .obj

FactoriesBurning

yep. that was it. looks like i parented it accidentally. thanks!

ElisaMoriconi

https://polycount.com/discussion/comment/1321765#Comment_1321765

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