topic Re: Duplication issue in Maya Forum

Duplication issue

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 03:20:03 GMT

Ok, while I'm new to Maya, I'm pretty **** literate in all computer/ app things. Or, at least, I thought I was until this issue... it's so **** frustratingly silly.

I'm trying to duplicate. That's it; just duplicate a polygon. Not duplicate special... that I have down. But for some reason, I'm hitting Cmd D (Ctrl D) on a **** tree (tree02), the Channel box says it's a new tree (tree03), but the second I try to move it... There's only the one tree I'm moving! If I try to deselect and reselect the thing, it tells me I've selected the original object (tree02).

Now, I'm following the lynda.com tutorial here, watching him just hit 'dupe' then using move... the original one is staying in place, and the new one is moving around, so I figure either I'm not doing something wrong there.

I've tried to Copy/Paste with no luck either..... (all I get is a message about a file being created from the student edition and therefore I'll always see that message when opening that file)

From what I've read up on dupe special, it allows either copy or instance, where (if I'm not mistaken) instance is really only a pointer to the original object and anything you do to one, you do to the other... Kinda sounds like that's what's happening to me here with the simple Duplicate.

Any help??!!!

Maya 2016 Education edition

Re: Duplication issue

damaggio — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 04:23:31 GMT

Yes the duplicate special gives you more options but a simple duplication in Maya is Shift D /windows, will make one copy that you can move around...you can make as many as you want...any rotation, scale or movement will be repeated in each copy , unlike Control D.

An instance copy is exactly waht you wrote.

Good luck.

Re: Duplication issue

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 06:11:35 GMT

Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear....

Forget Duplicate Special. I am not talking about that. It works just fine.

Let's leave out the keyboard shortcuts; I feel they're clouding the issue.

The problem is whenever I duplicate an object: Edit > Duplicate. It says it creates a copy, but I can't move the copy. There is no copy. I go to move the copy, but all I move around is the original. There's no copy that's left behind. Like it's being moved as one unit. I can't separate them.

Re: Duplication issue

damaggio — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 06:25:00 GMT

I would suggest either undoing your steps or close Maya and open an earlier file, then just do a simple copy Shift D and continue with your project.

Re: Duplication issue

pshwayka — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 15:58:28 GMT

Damaggio,

Can you describe the steps that would illustrate the difference between Duplicate (ctrl+D) and Duplicate with Transform (Shift+D)?

For the life of me, I can't get them to provide different results...

Re: Duplication issue

damaggio — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:59:32 GMT

Sure, create a cube then Shft D and move it , then shift D again it will continue moving but if you do Control D and move it the copy created stays in the same place...the translation does not get applied.

Re: Duplication issue

J450NP13 — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:06:18 GMT

<expletive> AWESOME

Re: Duplication issue

pshwayka — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:21:27 GMT

Ah ha! Thank you. I can go to my grave with one less mystery in my life.

Re: Duplication issue

damaggio — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:25:31 GMT

Honestly, that was the first time I ever used Control D...

Re: Duplication issue

J450NP13 — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:27:53 GMT

I was wanting something like this...I never knew thats what it did....It will help me for sure...

Re: Duplication issue

pshwayka — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:35:48 GMT

Not to hijack this thread, but I accidently discovered another trick the other day. Instead of clicking on the little settings box next to menu items to access the settings, you can just shift+click the menu item itself.

Re: Duplication issue

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 21:43:33 GMT

I tried undoing in that project, which didn't work.
Creating a new project, however, worked fine. I have a feeling it's some weird bug/ corruption within the Lynda.com exercise files.
Thanks for the help!