From the course: Maya 2018 Essential Training
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Rotate and scale - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya 2018 Essential Training
Rotate and scale
- [Instructor] In addition to moving objects, we can also rotate and scale them. So rotate and scale are located here on our toolbox but we also can get to them through our hotkeys. Now remember we have some very nice hotkeys here. We have q for select, w for move, e and r for rotate and scale. So I'm going to go ahead and select the rotate tool and just like with the move tool, we can just click on any object to select it and then rotate. So I'm going to go ahead and select the couch and the rotate gizmo is a little bit different from move in that it has circles rather than arrows. So I can hover over any one of these circles and rotate around that axis. So if I hover over the red circle, I can rotate around the x-axis. Blue is z and green is y. Now if you want to rotate around multiple axes, you can click in the middle here and that will allow you some sort of free rotation which I find is kind of hard to control. But notice this little cyan ring around everything and that basically…
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Select objects4m 32s
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Use the Move tool8m 43s
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Rotate and scale4m 21s
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Manipulate pivots3m 8s
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Understanding the Channel Box3m 29s
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Work with the Attribute Editor4m 28s
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Reset and freeze transformations2m 59s
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Snap objects3m 8s
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Duplicate objects3m 49s
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