hi i want to know how to align vertecies, im maya there is a cool feature that will allow to align vertex when you hold a keyboatd key and move the vertex, but how to do so in max, im new to max, please help me.

look at the pic, i want to align those two verts in left and right in same horizontal line.

sorry if there is a question already answered.

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There isn’t, at least not directly, assuming that’s an Editable Spline
object?

Select them, Select and Non-Uniform Scale, View (coordinates), Use
Selection Center (Transform flyout). Right-click the Scale button,
right-click the Y spinner on the right of the dialog.

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Actually, you can align verts on spline objects via the 3D snaps and a few snaps options.

1. Right-click on the Snaps Toggle button to bring up it’s dialog.
2. Make sure only Vertex is selected in the Snaps tab.
3. Go to the Options tab and turn on the Use Axis Constraints checkbox, then close the dialog.

Now, select the direction in the Move dialog and you can snap to any vertex without snapping right to it.

Here’s a quick JING video illustrating what I’m talking about

http://screencast.com/t/HE52gQ9xle

I hope that helps.

-=Beau

P.S. - that same technique works on 3d geometry as well.

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Great tip Beau...thanks for that!

Thank you admin and BeauP. Thats exactly what i expected. BeauP Great tip

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you can go in any orthographic view and just scale the vertices until they become straight....along only a single axis....
for example in your pic if your in the front view then scale them in the Y axis...no pressing J like maya..;)

Nice one Beau - very useful.

I’ll add this thread to my “useful max threads” bookmarks - this
question has come up many times before and will undoubtedly do so again.

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And yet another option is to use my vertPlacer script…

http://www.neilblevins.com/soulburnscripts/soulburnscripts.htm

Many ways to skin the cat.

- Neil

Well this work great if you want to move one vert at a time...BUT what if you have multiple verts selected that you want to snap and line up uniformly?  Just selecting verts in the snapping options and making sure that use axis constraints does not work...any help?  Scaling isn’t an option for me, its not exact, i want to be able to snap them perfectly like in Maya w/ the “v” and “x” hotkey....