Parenting changes scale.

takanuinuva_40f6ab6ae5

I'm trying to parent a genesis 8 figure but no matter what I do. Parent in place. Locking the scale. It still changes size. I even opened joint editor and unchecked inherit parent scale. But it still changes size. 

Is there a setting I'm missing?

The thing I'm trying to parent it to has a scale of 500. So when I set it back to 100 I can parent it just fine. 

Silent Winter

^I don't know if there's a way to stop this, but the easiest fix in your case would be to then scale G8 to 20% (thus then scaled up to 100% via the inherit parent scale that's going on)

sberlins

Don't parent the unscaled item to the scaled item.  Instead parent each of them to a null.  CREATE->NEW NULL

You can scale them independantly and move them independantly, but moving the null moves every thing parented to it.  So if you have for example, 100% scaled figure and a giant's chair at 500%, position the figure where you would have wanted to just parent it to the chair, but instead create a new null and then parent the 500% chair to the null, and then parent the 100% figure to the null.  Moving the null will move both the chair and figure as if they were parented to each other without affecting the scale of either item.

 

Edited for clarity

takanuinuva_40f6ab6ae5

sberlins said:

Don't parent the unscaled item to the scaled item.  Instead parent each of them to a null.  CREATE->NEW NULL

You can scale them independantly and move them independantly, but moving the null moves every thing parented to it.  So if you have for example, 100% scaled figure and a giant's chair at 500%, position the figure where you would have wanted to just parent it to the chair, but instead create a new null and then parent the 500% chair to the null, and then parent the 100% figure to the null.  Moving the null will move both the chair and figure as if they were parented to each other without affecting the scale of either item.

 

Edited for clarity

Thing is the 500 scale item has bones and the genesis 8 needs to be parented to it to move with that bone.

 

However I found that while the scale changes. After moving and unparenting it. It still stays with the bones movement. So I guess it's just a visual change as the x-y-z movements don't change when parenting.