Manigart opened this issue on Feb 23, 2002 ยท 22 posts
bloodsong posted Tue, 26 February 2002 at 11:44 AM
heyas; when you do this hand sizing with the magnet, does the hand still work right? i mean, do all the fingers bend where they're supposed to? and does moving them around inside the zone cause them to change size? i guess that is not a problem, if they're all near the center and the zone is pretty big. but i know that if you morph something to be bigger/longer/shorter, then the joints... well, they get out of joint. same thing when you scale the hand or fingers -- once you make the hand very long, the finger joints are still back where they were before, and the fingers try to bend around that, even out in left field as they are. which is why i like propagating scale, because when you use that, it also moves the joints along with the scaled up body parts. doing experiments and thinking, it seems to me that limbs ought to have propagating scale along their long axis. that is the kind of scaling that pushes the children body parts out off their joint centers and messes things up. it's also the direction of scale that is least likely to have that noticeable jump between body parts that are scaled. i haven't found out yet if having the z-scale (say) causes the regular scale to propagate along one axis as you use it. i somehow doubt it.