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strange scaling troubles

strange scaling troubles

artem_rigging
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strange scaling troubles

artem_rigging
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Hi I have a some strange actions with scaling tool on different controls 

 

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Kahylan
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Hi!

Its a bit hard from the video and the text to grasp what the issue seems to be. I think the problem you are experiencing, ist that the left ctrl seems to scale much faster than the right one. Did I see that correctly? 

I can't really see what is going on in your hierarchy, but my guess would be, that the local matrix of the control that is scaling way too much is pre-scaled. Your scale tool will scale according to world scale, meaning that if you have a local scale of 1 that would be something like 0.01 in world scale, it is going to scale 100 times faster.
From the top of my head I could think of 3 reasons for that:
1) There is a transform above it that is scaled down (probably L_shorts_b_group or L_shorts_b_transform)
2) The control itself was scaled down and transformations were frozen. 
3) The transform parent matrix of you control has scaled down values. 

To check how your world scalings of your controls are, you can select one of them and run the following script from a python tab:

import maya.cmds as mc
obj = mc.ls(sl=1)[0]
print(f'My object {obj} currently has this world scale: {mc.xform(obj, s=1,ws=1, q=1)}')

 

If the values they give you are different, this could explain your behaviour.

If that isn't the case, please provide some more information about the problem and if possible attach your file so we can more easily help you.

I hope it helps!

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artem_rigging
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Hi!
Yes, you understood correctly, they are simply scaled at different speeds.
Hmm... overall, the scales are equal, the only difference is the z axis (for mirror) but I don't think that it influence on speed 

 

My object L_shorts_b_control currently has this world scale: [0.9999999871732463, 0.9999999952673032, 0.9999999013426897]

My object R_shorts_b_control currently has this world scale: [0.9999999988982908, 0.9999999997129636, -0.9999999914942158]
Thanks! 

 

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Kahylan
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Hmm, yeah the mirroring shouldn't cause the issue.

Which means its probably not the world scale of the ctrls. There could be a double transformation issue on the left ctrl. But I really don't have enough information to analyse what exactly is going on. I would have to look at the file myself. Sorry 😕

 

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