how to create a mirrored clone in XSI?

kendo · Mar 2005

I thought I wouldnt have to ask simple questions like this again after I purchased £60 worth of XSI training books. Unfortunately it would appear Avid/Softimages training goods are as bad as their customer service which I could quite easily spend the next 10 minutes moaning about, moving on. As the title says how do I create a mirrored clone, I have set up an additional toolbar for the cloning single but I have no idea how to mirror it. Any help on this subject would be massively appreciated.

Squid · Mar 2005

scale your clone negatively on the axis you want to mirror (typically X)

taken right out of the script editor :
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Clone , , siSharedParent, siShareGrouping, siDuplicateProperties, siDuplicateAnimation, siShareConstraints, siSetSelection, siApplyRepeatXForm
Scale , -1, 1, 1, siAbsolute, siPivot, siObj, siX, , , , , , , , 0
</pre><hr />
a bit of error trapping and your good to go

kendo · Mar 2005

Many thanks that did the trick though i dont see why Softimage didnt just put in a one button job like max has.

P.S i really should hurry up and register at 3d palace.

ElysiumGX · Mar 2005

sometimes i like to create a "new model" of my selected object. then I do an instantiate single, and scale it by -1 along the appropriate axis. then transform away. I really don't know the disadvantages to this yet, if there are any. once I'm finish, I move the mesh back to the scene root, and delete the model. Then I do symmetrize polygons which has that cool weld/bridge feature that I wish Max had.

iMag · Mar 2005

you can also hit the symetry button (spelled wrong I know) of a whole mesh and then extract the polygons with the extract (delete)option

dur23 · Mar 2005

Honestly the best method i've seen so far is:
1. convert you mesh to a "model"
2. Clone single
3. Symmetrize the clone.
4. Hide it in the perspective view. (you can't actually hide it, so what i do is set the "unselected objects to show as bouding boxes in the display properties) or you could just translate it out of your view.
5. open up the model viewer or object viewer with your clone mesh selected and lock that view.
6. blamo! GO!

Squid · Mar 2005

seems a bit overcomplicated to me. as long as you only freeze the ops from the original model cloning half the geo and negative scaling works exactly the same.

meh, different strokes etc

The truly best methed i've found so far though is just open up Silo and be done with it

how to create a mirrored clone in XSI?

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