How to align scale pivot to object

[warclay]

When you rotate an object and then do a freeze transform. The scale gets reset back to world axis.

How do you rotate the scale handle to align with the current object orientation?

[failure]

Obviously, you don't freeze the transformations.
Or parent the object to the conveniently rotated transform node and scale the parent.

[warclay]

freeze transform is required to be done before we export for the project. especially scale, we need to make sure scale is freeze back to 1,1,1 as this is how things works around here unfortunately.

So, thanks for the advise, but freeze transform is a must done process for us.

any other helpful advise welcome.

[joojaa]

Theres no intelligent way of doing that except to rotate the object back and counter rotate it to position. NOW this WILL accululate numerical inprecicion over time.

Offcourse you can allways use a series of history to make the user THINK the scale manip is skewed (this woudl essentiay be mel to amke a atool that has arbitrary scaleing)

Not its rether easy to remake the scele tool in maya api to be eble to scale in any space tough.

However what i do suggest is to freeze ON export only and then whan the export is doen delete the freeze node. to be back where you started form. Wich essentoialy means make your pipe smarter.

[user_deleted]

in your 'freeze transformations dialogue', untick rotation and position and leave only scale ticked. This will reset your scale transform back to 1,1,1 but leave all the others unchanged. Your scale gizmo will retain its rotation. I suppose you could tick position as well.

[spleek]

Have you tried this? Un-ticking the scale on 'Freeze Transform' option box does NOT retain the orientation of the scale. It only retains the scale values.

[user_deleted]

er...i think i was a bit misread. you leave scale ticked and un-tick the other two.