Maya Animation :: Spin Object - Rotate It On One Axis

Oct 26, 2010

If there is a quick easy way to spin an object, rotate it on one axis through the 360 degrees a number of times.

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Maya Animation :: Setting Rotation Axis Of Object?

Jan 1, 2011

I am busy working on rigging a character ( See attachment) to the best of my abilities and am running into some issues:

I have made a nurbs curve object which I intend to use as a controller in my rig, I have however modeled my character with his arms in a 45 degree angle so I snapped this particular object to the wrist and aligned it with the geometry...here comes the fun part , because it is a controller I wanted to have a clean channelbox zo I froze transformations which neatly sets every channel to 0, it also snaps the local axis to a world pivot orientation....

I went in componentmode pressed the question mark thingy and thought it was working..but it still alters the values in the channelbox.

I basically want the same rotation axes editing capabilities as I have with joints, I will try fiddling with that next, but I can't believe that this can't be solved any simpler.

See the image in the attachment

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Sep 22, 2013

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I'm rigging a shoulder pad to a biped and I'd like it to only rotate on one axis. Google hasn't been that useful, and I hope I don't need scripting for this kind of minor thing. I'm rather new to 3Ds Max Design but I'm learning fast and liking it so far!

I've attached what I want to effectively accomplish. I'm looking for a way to lock the z-axis of the object with the upper arm's z-axis.

EDIT: Reduced picture size.

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Aug 14, 2011

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Oct 18, 2010

how do you adjust the rotation axis of a joint. Attached is what am talking about.

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So perhaps I'm missing something blindingly obvious, but in previous versions of Maya, I've been able to simply hit F8 and check the '?' icon to be able to go in and individually rotate Local Rotation Axis to be the way I want.

For some reason I cannot find how to do this now in 2011? I've only been able to do them using the auto-tool.

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Mar 27, 2011

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I'm trying to rotate a target cam around an object. It is part of a bigger animation. so the use of a spline would be no option.

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Jun 25, 2012

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The pictures show the scaling in relation to the rotate tool. I zoomed to place the object exactly within the inner ring. You'll see it grows when rotated.

2. The rotate manipulator is grey or partially grey. The tool works so it's not a locked channel. Since both issues happened at the same time I'm thinking they are related.

3. I can't get the X/Y grid to show on the front view. The grid is enabled on the panel and in the preferences. The front view, shows the plane of the X/Z grid. The side view shows the Y/Z grid. The top view show the X/Z grid.

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Jul 15, 2011

When setting up a simple FK control curve on say the wrist for example, many times the control curve isn't exactly perpendicular to the local rotation axis of the joint movement, so when we position the control curve to be perpendicular to the joint - it has a rotational value added, but the rotational handles are lines up with the rotational handles of the joint that we want to move.

Freeze Transformations: then the control curves rotational handle go back to being skewed (out of alignment with the joints)

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Is that really not possible?

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Jan 6, 2011

i created a sphere that will control the rotation of the fingers. i align the sphere to the bone so it has the same angles. the bone angle is 0,0,0 but the sphere is (15, 10.23, 2)if i freeze the sphere, the angle get 0,0,0 but they get align with the world axis as X Y Z, how can i 0,0,0 and maintain the align rotation of the bone?

in Softimage there is something call set neutral pose, only change the angle displays to zero so the animator dont have a hard time.

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Jan 1, 2012

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Jul 9, 2013

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