How do i pose my model without skewing my meshes in max

AslanTech

Hello I've been modeling a character according to a turnarounds provided to me, the model is made out of components, the thing being a robot.

So how do i rotate every component in order to reach an animation friendly pose without ending up skewing my meshes?

I've been using "Select and link" in max, but it always ends up skewing my models.

any suggestions would be appreciated.

cptSwing

well, rigging a robot shouldn't be too much pain?

Other than that, maybe bring it into zbrush or mudbox for their simple posing tools?

poopipe

if it's skewing your mesh then there's non-uniform scaling on bits of it.

unlink everything, reset it's scale then link it together again

Mark Dygert

Don't use the reset xform utility, that will fubar the objects local pivot orientation by aligning it to the world. Make sure you go to the Hierarchy tab and use set transform/scale before relinking everything.