How To Re-scale a Rigged Character - 3ds Max CAT Tutorial

[@DashPOWER]

Thanks for the tutorial. ;-) If any of you are interested in automation of this process, I made a simple tool based on this tutorial. You can download the tool here: pastebin.com/raw/DyByQSwE How to run: Download > Drag&Drop to max (as .mcr) > [press [X] Max Search], write SCALE_CAT while CAT parent is selected > Enjoy.

[@lukaz2040]

You beautiful human being. Thank you so much for this! How many times have I re-rigged a character because of not knowing this! Thanks!

[@MultiBRETTER]

Thanks for these great videos! It makes me feel Max is still relevant to the industry. As I have still so much to learn and don't want to go back all the way for Maya

[@ifranebrunet9153]

I'm always amazed how intelligent peoples have created such complex things as CAT without thinking one minute about the base of the base of operation: size, duplication. The most reliable for scale seems to go to "utility->more->Rescale World Units->Scene" which is like using an atomic bomb to kill a bee. Anyway, thanks to Milos, the tutorial is simple and straight.

[@stinesrensen1133]

Thank you Milos, you channel is very helpfull. Keep 'em comin'! :*

[@gavinletit6715]

thanks for making this Milos. very grateful for your tutorials. hope cat 2 gets done too

[@KOHRproductions]

Perfect, thank you.

[@mohits773]

awesome tutorials sir really help full pleaes make animation tutorial for beginner series

[@AbbasKhan-dk5sb]

Thanks for the video man.. Helpful and informative !

[@adriancojo6671]

Hey Milos....great video as usual! Is there any posible way to ragdoll a CAT rig in the same manner as a Biped with MassFX Ragdoll?

[@PietrobonoFabio]

congratulations .. for your tutorials. what kind of rendering did you use here?

[@UnKn0wn86]

You can also disable Animation layer (or delete), select all Elements (sometimes some elements should be ignored, depending on the rig), and use Rescale World Units. Much easier and faster.

[@irishScoutSniper92]

best tutorials on KZbin!

[@kostasfassoulas6915]

Awesome as always!! Thank you!

[@RanitBhowmick]

Very helpful and informative !

[@maxer167]

Thanks Milos!

[@AlexUdilov]

Brilliant work. Thank you so much!

[@galotta8475]

Thank you for this little tutorial. I ran into a sort of problem: why is my mesh disappearing after I collapsed XForm to editable poly?

[@LeeJackson3d]

Good vid, you can also add the mesh to the rig and just rescale in catunits :P - no need for all this hooha

[@Jiggy...]

Very useful, thank you Milos.

[@tatianas6976]

muhas gracias !! super util la informacion

[@StigDesign]

1:43 Guess am Unique :D Wish i could hire you for my game :)

[@aragorn3d312]

You can also try this: save your rig and then add it to a new or already open scene and select the necessary CAT units ratio and with this approach everything will work correctly.

[@erandakaprabhath2079]

Thank you very much!

[@Khyrid]

Yeah, but what if I want to have like a morph slider that scales the character up and down? Something that would be useful for a character editor in a game or something. I guess this should be done with the game IDE instead.

[@fusionproofficial6593]

i start learning CAT and starting to know how to animating simple in 3ds. thx for your nice tutorial. can we edit the CAT shape? for example, i want to add horn in Allosaur head CAT model. can we edit it? because i cant change the vertex.can you make the videos? thanks before

[@conatcha]

It seemed it worked fine but I looked closely at the animations and the mesh had some deformations. It didn't work for me.

[@KeeCity]

What renderer are you using

[@NealWalsh-t9h]

Hey, I'm late to the party, but is there any way of scaling a rig with Barry's morpher face controls? It's something to do with the constraints on the face controls but can't get my head around how to resolve. Any ideas?

[@saadmohammad6141]

Hy... milos you mentioned that now a days it doesnt matters any more plz elaborate it more..how are game engines handeling that...can you make a video on scaling in engine vs in max pros n cons

[@erandakaprabhath2079]

Could you please explain how to flip a CAT animation to another direction?

[@DarkPhoton]

What is the name of the intro background music?

[@olegkolgatin5279]

Doesn't work for me for some reason. But rescaling world units from utilities helped in that case.

[@SkywardWarriorCosplaygamer]

Hey, this saved me, thank you! I had a character who needed to be four times as big as he was, and this really simplified the process. (Not to mention, the character was a million pieces and had some that weren't skinned, but linked, and other that had morphers!)

[@berrenstone4977]

You get a thumbs up purely for the IT Crowd cut

[@Sweemops]

I have a problem: my character has a morpher utility. the morphs are corrupted after scaling.

[@hjups]

Shouldn't there be a simpler way to do this? Would simply adjusting the CAT scale work if you used a similar workflow to your previous video (mesh parented to max bones, and driven by a CAT rig)?

[@DarthBiomech]

Sadly it's not so easy when your rig has bunch of additional stuff like helpers or just parented objects without skin... Sometimes it's actually just damn easier to scale up the surrounding scene instead.

[@silentboof]

If you add the "mesh" in the "add rigging" menu then you can easily rescale everything properly using CATunit ratio! I mean why didn't you do that? is there is specific reason?

[@Sweemops]

you could also change the system unit scale from 1,0 to 1,5 or whatever you need.

[@mixayshamrov5213]

А я другим способом делал. Через изменения Units и сохранением в другую сцену. Только масштаб нужно заранее просчитать. Когда Merge делаешь, макс спросит, изменить юниты или нет. И изменяет без проблем. Но этот способ тоже хороший и дает больший контроль.

[@tolebaybaglan4330]

Надо попробовать друг!

[@tudorstanescu1743]

you can also just rescale world units

But that is like instead of buying a larger closet, you buy a smaller house. Also that would affect the whole scene globally. This talks about how to rescale a character.

[@barcodeguy7627]

can't you just use Utilities -> Rescale World Units?

[@conatcha]

That rescales the whole scene, not only the model.

[@barcodeguy7627]

@@conatcha isn't there a checkbox to rescale selected objects only?

[@conatcha]

@@barcodeguy7627 No as far as I know. This is not a simple thing to do.

[@xmrboglikenfs7078]

Bro u have fb i just need help please