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can't figure out how I DID THIS ;)

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Raxx:
If the rotate tool is active, you can click and drag with the right mouse button and it'll rotate it perpendicular to the view, which is probably what you want.

neighborlee:
Using 'r' for rotate, and      holding RMB and moving mouse, and I get zero movement of just the faces I"ve got selected, which in this case as seen in photo, is of the 'wing' section of mesh. I don't want to rotate entire thing, just the wing,- to the right so I can mimic a bird/plane.

Do I need to be in some special mode ?

thx
nl

Raxx:
The rotate tool does not currently affect faces. If you want to rotate the faces, you can use the rotate face tool (which has a different behavior than the normal rotate tool), or press T to select the points of that face, and then you can rotate them that way.

If anything, just select the points you want to be rotated, and use the rotate tool.

neighborlee:
What is it that affects , some part of my mesh,  that would allow me to rotate this 'wing' from straight down in the picture, to 90D to the right ( without sheering) ? BY sheering, I mean that as I rotate, the verts /faces around the wing are  horribly distorted, so its a dead end trying that.

I tried it with verts, but the effect is far far too extreme, as doing it the unknown way I did it ( ugh) , had a much more subtle effect which is desired. Its more as if I was in some proportional editing mode, the movement wasn't extreme and allowed me to shape nicely.

What I saw reminded me of max or mayas' 'soft' mode, where moving things was a very gentle experience..almost like sculpting  of sorts...
 


weird ;)
nl

neighborlee:
Maybe I was using 1088 , where there is a new feature or something ? I guess I could try running that and see if I can replicate things...Gah :(

later
lee

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