Scaling Squirrely Tail

Maya
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Hi there:

I am animating the Squirrely rig which is here:

http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/ch...y-Rig-5744.html

And I would like to scale down the tail. I know absolutely nothing about rigging/modelling, unfortunately. I was told to try scaling down the tail joints. When I tried scaling each individual joint it didn't look good at all. The tail has 6 segments of joints, so I tried just scaling those. which did scale down the geometry, but seemed to affect the posing of the tail in not a great way.

I would be grateful for any advice, thanks in advance!

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Hmm...

Try "checking" the radio button "Inherits Transform" under the transform node of the geometry of the squirrel. This will unlink the transform between the joints and the mesh themselves; I wasn't exactly sure what your issue was, but this will fix a double-transform error that occurs when a joint is scaled.

If this doesn't help, could you explain what exactly you do when you try to scale the tail? (Woo, rhyme!)

Regards
-Kyle