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Jhonus

01-24-2003, 11:43 PM

"Manipulating" for the spelling people.

Are there any secrets i should know about vert,edge and face manipulation in Wings? I've been using it for two days and i'm finding it a little cumbersome.

This is how its workign for me atm

I have 9 shortcuts for move, rotate and scale. (x,y,z for each). Some purists dotn like manipulators but I'm struggling to see how this way of workign is any better to 3 shortcuts (for move, scale, rotate) and then clicking and movign along the appropriate axis on a manipulator icon (i.e maya)

anyway, in wings i'm selecting a vert, pressing q to move in X, click mouse in viewport then pressing w to start moving in Y. It would be much cooler if you didnt have to click off the object before switching to moving in a different axis.

other than that i'm thinkign wings is a genius poly modeller.

nervous_twitch

01-25-2003, 12:20 AM

Have you tried move:free? You can move in the 2d plane perpendicular to the camera. I use it most of the time.

My Fault

01-25-2003, 01:21 AM

Some of Wings 3d's real strengths come out when you delve in to the advanced features... i.e. when youwant to do something outside of the X,Y,Z plane. For instance, rotating a group of faces around a particular edge you choose. Or scaling uniformly towards a point. The simplicity of the interface belies some freakingly powerful abilities.

thedaemon

01-25-2003, 02:03 AM

try the Tools/Tweak command.

Daolohua CnC

01-31-2003, 02:21 AM

>>Some of Wings 3d's real strengths come out when you delve in to the advanced features... i.e. when youwant to do something outside of the X,Y,Z plane. For instance, rotating a group of faces around a particular edge you choose. Or scaling uniformly towards a point. The simplicity of the interface belies some freakingly powerful abilities.<<

how do u do that exactly? rotating or scaling aorund an edge, point, ect.?

(still new, so pardon the possible redundancy of this question)

SheepFactory

01-31-2003, 02:37 AM

check out these threads Daolohua:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39449

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38824

some very cool workflow tips.

Daolohua CnC

01-31-2003, 02:50 AM

thanks sheep... useful stuff

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