Problems With Rotational Snap

[steveck]

Okay, this is driving me crazy. I've just upgraded from Maya 4.0 to Maya 7.0. When I animate, I like to have my rotate tool set to snap every 1 degree. For some reason, Maya 7.0 won't do what I want. I double click on the rotate tool, turn on snap rotate and set the step size to 1.oo, but when I start to rotate my objects, they snap to every 15 degrees! If I retype 1 in the step size, then it rotates properly. Also, everytime I start Maya 7.0, my objects never snap rotates, even though the rotate dialogue box has the snap rotate checked. I find this absolutely stupid. On a side note, when I actually get the snap rotate to work properly, when I highlight one of the rotational axis in the channel editor (thus seeing a yellow circle around the selected object) and use the middle mouse button to rotate the selected object, the object does not snap rotate. Is there anyway to have it snap rotate, like how Maya 4.0 used to do?

Another question, but this time regarding the graph editor. In Maya 4.0, when I selected keyframes and start to move them, their change in value is indicated dynamically at the top of the graph editor window. In Maya 7.0, when I do the same thing, the values are not updated until I let go of the button. Again, is there anyway to have this function behave like it did in Maya 4.0?

[drblacksnake]

i am not sure if it would help, since I am on maya6.5

snapping really depends of how rotate tool was selected - through either selecting tool directly (toolbox or 'e'), or clicking rotation channels. In second case snap wont work (at least in m6.5)

another thing is probably because You have FastInteraction option on.. turn it off and it would update.

[joojaa]

1 degree snaps are barely visible (or rateher only if you look at numric values), since even noraly you turn about that amount!

Also note maya only snaps along the colored axes and image plabnne axe, so if you just choose the ball wherever maya will not snap! (that is to say maya only snaps if you higchlite one of the bands and move along that since the overall rotation has no usderstanding of angles becsause there sno such thing as curved angles!)

BUt yes maya 7 has toruble remebertning the setting you set so retype the amount and maya snaps right again!

[steveck]

Thanks for the reply guys. drBlacksnake, thanks for verifying that snapping doesn't work when clicking a rotation channel. By the way, where would I find the FastInteraction option? Joojaa, the reason why I work with rotational snaps to 1 is because it's easier for me to remember whole integers as I animate, rather than decimals. And I already know about snapping only working on the colored axes. That really sucks that you have retype the amount for Maya to get it right. I would think this is a bug more than anything else. I feel more prone to go back to animating in Maya 4.0.

[joojaa]

well this can be relatively easily fixed but thing is how musc do you need it. Imean it might be better to just make a scriptjob that monitoirs value changes and rounds the values of for you!