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how can I align to or more points horizontal or vertical.
I’m doing a tutorial where a person used xsi 4.0 and I’m using xsi mod tool.
He is selecting the points and scaling them down to zero but that doesnt seem to work for me.



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  • dwigfor
  • Posted: 25 December 2008 11:21 PM

Might need to change to Global from local in the SRT panel (on right)



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If I change to global then my transform thing is in the center of my rotoscope image and not the selected points so I need to set COG aswell. but still then it doesnt work.
Alsy Y allready stands on zero zo I cant change it to zero.

It can’t be that hard to align some points right…



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  • mayaTitan
  • Posted: 26 December 2008 07:33 AM

select the points, select global transform, turn on COG (center of geometry) and using SCALE tool, scale down by the axes you want to align



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I can do that, but I can’t align them by adding the value zero in the scale menu.
Is it possible by you?



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  • mayaTitan
  • Posted: 27 December 2008 02:27 AM

no, it is not
but described way is the best, and scale it down multiple times, so it will be perfect align

see pic 2.
scale it but dont cross over the manipulator center, repeat this step few times, and you’ll get perfectly aligned points;)



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ah ok, thx :)



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  • sfu_ace63
  • Posted: 27 December 2008 04:46 AM

Or just hold ctrl to snap it while scaling so you dont have to scale multiple times....



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  • mayaTitan
  • Posted: 29 December 2008 10:18 AM

correction, u can do that by typing 0 in scale menu(Global, COG on)
just saw it in XSI tips&tricks video “point placement” ;)



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[quote=mayaTitan;17140]correction, u can do that by typing 0 in scale menu(Global, COG on)
just saw it in XSI tips&tricks video “point placement” ;)

for some reason it doesnt work in the mod tool



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