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# 1 18-06-2009 , 01:23 PM
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rotate manip

in maya 09,

how do you freely rotate an object?

create a simple sphere and go to the move tool and click in the middle of the manip, and you can freely move it in all axis,

this is not the case for rotations [used to back back in the day]? is there a setting for this?

i switched the rotate tool from local to global and ginbal, i still cant rotate in all axis.

# 2 18-06-2009 , 02:11 PM
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Hey man, hows tricks

Select the object hit the rotate tool and you get a black line, click that and rotate away.

Think thats what your after?

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# 3 18-06-2009 , 03:10 PM
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no, not really

# 4 18-06-2009 , 03:16 PM
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Eh? I do it all the time and I did it just now. Try switching out your prefs folder.


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# 5 18-06-2009 , 04:18 PM
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Originally posted by septopus
no, not really

If you click in the inside of the rotate gizmo it allows you to rotate freely, if you click the black line and move it roates freeley.


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# 6 18-06-2009 , 04:53 PM
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ive been trying to find the "black line"
cant. in previous maya versions [when i used it] the manips worked fine.

i dont know why its not working now[for me at least]
in this vid you can see no matter how much i try to rotate on y axis it wont, and it only rotates on 2 axis depending on the object's orientation to the camera. so if the object if facing the yz plane it restrict the rotation to x and z and so on.
https://vimeo.com/5218890

# 7 19-06-2009 , 12:05 AM
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what graphics card are you using and what are the drivers and did you update them recently?

a while ago i got fed up with my computer crashing on start up when i had two monitors enabled so i thought i'd update the graphics card drivers
not sure if it fixed me from crashing but the rotate tool stopped working as it should and did what you showed in the video

so i had to reinstall the older drivers and it works fine... with the odd crash on start up, but i'd rather put up with that then a rotate tool that doesn't work...




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# 8 19-06-2009 , 05:52 AM
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Double click on the rotate button in your toolbar. Then click reset tool. See if that does anything. Do it for your translate tool as well.


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# 9 19-06-2009 , 09:44 AM
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Originally posted by septopus
ive been trying to find the "black line"
cant.

Inside this circle is rotates freely.

dunno why it aint working with yours

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# 10 19-06-2009 , 12:12 PM
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dunno why either. ill re-install. :blush:

it could be video card, but i doubt it. because this is only happening with the rotate tool.


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# 11 20-06-2009 , 04:07 PM
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What card have you got? Just been on a PC the other day with a pretty old Radion card and that did excatly the same thing thats happening to you.


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# 12 20-06-2009 , 05:40 PM
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radeonHD3600- 512mb, a bit old but good


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# 13 20-06-2009 , 05:43 PM
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Think that might be it tbh. strange that it ony affects the rotate


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# 14 20-06-2009 , 10:37 PM
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strange? mines a radeon 4870 and it did that, and that card is a year old...




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