Scaling multiple faces on local level?

[xgc]

I've got a question about polyfaces... because, i'm modeling a dragon type thing (sorta like the mutalisks in starcraft) and i need to extrude and scale a bunch of faces down for the chest scales, and i can extrude them all, fine... but when I try and scale them all down simeltaneously (using the scale all axis, that yellow box in the middle of the face) it scales all the faces down, but also, moves them towards the center of all the faces, so it scales down, but also moves all the faces inward, which i dont want, I want to be able to scale the faces down, on a local level, so it wont affect the XYZ position, just the XYC scale...

does that make sense??

example, if I extrude these 4 faces, and then scale them down, this is the result...

when what I want when i scale the faces down, is this...

so like, when I say locally, they all scale down as if I did them individually, but without the hassel of that... is there a setting that I can change (like something that says, face transform "world" to like face transform "local" ?? )

[rentallmay]

use "Move Component" under Edit Polygon.

[xgc]

no no no... that didn't do it, but i was playin around, gettin a little pissed, and that "show manipulator" tool, under the "scale" tool in the toolbar, did the trick!!, OMFG.... it was so simple, they all scaled down independantly, but at the same time... SWEEET!!!

[rentallmay]

yeah, but show manip tool only works on already extruded faces. It won

[skullnation]

Just make sure you scale them all while you are still in the extrude tool it will work just like the show manip tool as well.

[campbell]

The manipulator you get for extrude face is i-fugin-dentical in practically every aspect as moveComponent, extract, duplicate faces etc. They can all either transform as a collective of the components (just like the joe-transform tools) or, locally per component (or contigious colection thereof) ...you can widget between these modes by toggling that yellow 'pin' hanging off the manipulator (or edit in chan. box/AE). All these actions/opterations create a history node (if you let 'em), a history node whose manipulator widget can be re-shown by Show Manipulator, just like any other node who allows for manipulation of its parameters with an interactive widget-a-bob (eg show manipulor on a sphere's creation node). You might even use Offset to scale your components instead of locally scaling.

OMFG - RTFM! (where M=manual on the last acro.)

Not to be rude, its just a courtesy thing.

C.

[xgc]

ok, 1 thing tho, when using the Move Component tool, it scales independantly, but it does do that scale all axis equal thing...

[rentallmay]

------------ok, 1 thing tho, when using the Move Component tool, it scales independantly, but it does do that scale all axis equal thing... -------------

sure it scales the axis equal. Isn