• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Cinema 4d roation question

  Posted by Ahron Black on February 3, 2009 at 4:43 pm

  Why is it that when I rotate an primitive object in cinema 4d, the size of the primitive changes as well?

  Thanks for the help.

  Adam Trachtenberg replied 17 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  February 4, 2009 at 2:33 pm

  It’s happening because it’s nested inside another object and you’ve scaled the other object non-uniformly with the object tool rather than the model tool. When you use the object tool you are in effect scaling the object’s world space, so the primitive (child object) is living in a distorted universe.

  Solution is to scale with the model tool instead. But if you have to animate the scale that won’t work, so in that case you would pull the primitive out from under the scaled object and use a constraint tag set to parent mode instead of physically parenting to the scaled object.

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