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In moochie's Bootz video (the one without sound), starting at around time index 06:18, he uses CTRL + MMC to drag points toward the red dotted line, snapped, then suddenly the entire row of points are selected, then suddenly the entire row of polys attached to those points magically snapped to the red dotted line. Entire curved piece straightened out with spacing between points intact. Clean and fast. How did moochie do it?

I can see on the keyboard display on top, he pushes S key a few times while these snapping occurs...but can't figure out the step he uses to snap the points the the red dotted line while the polys follow them while keeping spacing.

Attached a screen of that step in the video in question.

Anyone knows how he did it?

thanks

[headus]

The red dotted line is the snap grid, which you can turn on under the "Snap / Stack" panel. Any Ctrl-MMB point move will snap to the dotted lines when they get close.

The edge straightening a separate tool, so what Moochie would have done there is used one S key to tag a point at one end of the edge, a second S to tag the other end, then double-S (or Shift-S) on a middle point to straighten between the end points. If you then move either of the end points, the whole edge stays straight automatically. This wasn't always the case, so if you're running an older version, it may not do the auto straightening.

Phil

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Thanks Headus, after a lot of studying the manual, re-watch the video, and re-read what you write, I finally get it!

Thank you for your help very much