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Can anyone show me how to scale points? I've tried just about everything I can think of using the API (and not doing the calculations externally and just moving the points). Basically I'm trying to take a scale that's on the layer, remove it from the layer and apply it to the points. (I've got some mouth switch layers that are scaled on the group layer)

I've tried M_Mesh:ScalePoints and LM_Matrix:Scale applied to points on a curve, but just can't seem to get things to work. The calls themselves seem pretty straightforward, so I suspect that there's some setup call or copy call I'm not doing

Any help is greatly appreciated. I've spent multiple hours on it, and just can't figure it out

two places you can look:

my bake points script that you have / had viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28275&p=160048 and
my (or the LM_) draw shape script: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=29621

(or you might find that just running "bake" does the job for you?!)

Oh Wow! I didn't realize that the Bake Frame script would do that! I had only used it in situations where I had moved points. I had no idea it would take layer transformations and move them to the points! And it does all three at once! I can't believe how much time I've wasted in the past re-manipulating points, when I had copied things from a character of one scale to another

Thank you sooooooo much. Your script is even more awesome than I knew. Even though I love my own lipsync script and an eye action clean up script, I think yours has got to go to the top of my list.

Hayasidist, I really need this script urgently, but the file doesn't seem to be on the mediafire link you posted. I have spent a few days building a 2.5D head at a larger scale to the body (don't ask why!), and it also included many layer transforms instead of moving the points, and now I find I can't combine it with the body any more without horrible distortions happening! It's a mess, it's driving me mad and my only hope is to bake all the transforms into the points somehow. I hope you see this.

I have no idea why mediafire seems to be blocking the unzipped LUA -- I tried a few things to sort it, but in the end I gave up and just uploaded a zipped version.

there's a new link in the post on AF http://www.kelleytown.com/forum/animato ... hichpage=2 . Please read the notes there before you install and run. Hope it does the job for you.

Thank you for uploading that script again Hayasidist - no doubt about it, it's saving the day, even if it means I have to bake my animation key by key and then reassemble it manually into duplicate layers. It's still far better than re-creating it from scratch!

Many of the splines need tweaking as well - there seems to be something lost in translation, but otherwise it works like a charm.

Many thanks.

Silly me, I just realised I can copy the curvature keys directly from the original frame and paste them on the new. I don't have to do any tweaking at all!