[MAYA] How can I translate and scale a curve without screwing up the geometry on it?
polycounter lvl 5
Quick question: I extruded a mesh face onto a curve with multiple control vertexes. The end mesh looks good and I can manipulate it well with the curve vertexes. Only problem is that I made the model it's attached to too big and now I need to shrink the whole thing. I parented the entire model to a "master curve" and I can translate + scale everything on the model except for this one curve/mesh that it's affecting. If I try to parent one or the other or both to the master curve, then scale the master curve, the problem curve/mesh scales differently than the rest of the object.
I can delete history on the curve's mesh but then I lose the curve association and I can't manipulate the thing with the curve points, which is something I want to do later. (On a related subject, would it be possible to delete the history, rescale it, and then somehow re-attach the curve to the mesh with the ability to manipulate it?)
What is the best way to deal with this issue without compromising the integrity of the entire model?
I can delete history on the curve's mesh but then I lose the curve association and I can't manipulate the thing with the curve points, which is something I want to do later. (On a related subject, would it be possible to delete the history, rescale it, and then somehow re-attach the curve to the mesh with the ability to manipulate it?)
What is the best way to deal with this issue without compromising the integrity of the entire model?
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curve controls surface and parenting both to a controller results in:
parent scales curve which scales object (as long as it has history) AND parent scales object created by the curve again.
solution: parent only the curve to the control but not the object.
Before scaling with only curve parented:
After: scaling to make it smaller
I could just manually resize the end of it, but I feel like there's a much easier way to do this then that and it would get tedious for what I'm trying to do with this.