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Character Rigging in R12: Aligning Joints
 
liquidscience
Posted: 15 October 2012 11:41 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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I’m having trouble aligning the joints. Specifically, when I hold down CONTROL and rotate a joint to align it it creates a duplicate of the entire hierarchy and rotates the entire hierarchy. I’m in Model Mode and have the rotate tool selected. I don’t know what else to do. I’ve included a screen shot for reference

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Patrick Goski
Posted: 18 October 2012 04:53 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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I believe in R13 the Ctrl key was changed to duplicate objects.
It no longer adjust the adjust the axis of the object.
Instead of the CTRL key you will want to use the “L” shortcut.
Tapping “L” will switch you to axis mode, or you can take advantage of sticky keys and hold “L”

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liquidscience
Posted: 18 October 2012 05:10 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Thanks Patrick, that’s very helpful. There were a couple videos I watched that all said to use the control key so I thought I was loosing my mind.

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Patrick Goski
Posted: 18 October 2012 05:36 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Yeah, it is an unfortunate side effect of changing interfaces and key commands :/
While 99.99% of a tutorial is still valid, small things like this can get confusing.

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Patrick Goski
Posted: 18 October 2012 05:40 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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I have added a comment to the video to let other know of the change.

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