WEBVTT 00:00.450 --> 00:03.270 And the previous lesson, you learned how to do this manually. 00:03.420 --> 00:09.890 But I want to show you how to mirror the geometry with a quick tool in my it's right here. 00:09.900 --> 00:12.900 It's called the mirror geometry across an axis. 00:13.380 --> 00:13.950 We click it. 00:13.950 --> 00:16.380 It will just do it for us and one click. 00:16.380 --> 00:25.200 But I want to impress upon you to not get lulled into a false sense of accomplishment with this, because 00:25.200 --> 00:31.560 sometimes this might not work or, you know, you're working on a very old version of Maya or who knows 00:31.560 --> 00:34.710 what you need to understand how to do these operations manually. 00:34.980 --> 00:39.480 And these tools up here are merely for convenience and to be a good bottler. 00:39.480 --> 00:42.180 You need to know how to do this manually first. 00:42.420 --> 00:47.100 And that's why I wanted to show you how to do it manually first to see what's happening behind the scenes 00:47.100 --> 00:49.530 and to appreciate a one click tool like this. 00:49.890 --> 00:52.080 So it has some options here that will pop up. 00:52.350 --> 00:54.000 If it doesn't pop up for you. 00:54.000 --> 01:02.070 You can get to the tools of this by selecting on polymer and hitting T, which should bring up the the 01:02.070 --> 01:03.630 menu settings here. 01:03.960 --> 01:05.070 You can also get to them. 01:05.070 --> 01:10.460 You know, if you just scroll down after selecting the input, you can get to the settings here as well. 01:10.680 --> 01:18.120 So after the fact, we could change the access to that and the access that is being mirrored on. 01:18.570 --> 01:25.610 And you can see it's doing its best to merge the geometry across an axis where there used to be geometry 01:25.620 --> 01:30.600 in the back of the head was there, but now it is merging it as best it can. 01:31.020 --> 01:35.730 This also works for geometry across an axis. 01:35.740 --> 01:41.400 So let's say we had later on we're going to make the Bowen arms and let's say we had an arm over here. 01:41.670 --> 01:49.070 This will also work for separate geometry, the catches as it will make it one mesh. 01:49.380 --> 01:54.960 So if I'm near that, you can see if I select one or the other, they are now the same mesh. 01:55.770 --> 01:58.260 The way to get around that, of course, is to go to mesh separate. 01:58.260 --> 01:59.910 And now we have two separate pieces. 02:00.150 --> 02:06.840 If we wanted to rig these arms separate and you can tell even now, it gives it a bit of odd history. 02:07.200 --> 02:12.390 So I'm trying to rotate it and it's not affecting the object as you'd expect. 02:12.390 --> 02:13.860 It's changing the topology on it. 02:14.280 --> 02:20.640 So, you know, of course, what we would need to do to solve that is to go to edit, delete by type 02:20.640 --> 02:21.180 history. 02:21.810 --> 02:24.180 And now when we do it, it should rotate just fine. 02:24.180 --> 02:24.960 No, it does not. 02:27.270 --> 02:33.630 Well, we need to do is on parenting from this group here and with that group, so now it should rotate 02:33.630 --> 02:34.140 just fine. 02:35.670 --> 02:42.210 Again, this is a perfect example of why you need to know how to do this stuff manually in case there's 02:42.210 --> 02:46.410 quirks like this, because these tools really are just for convenience sake. 02:46.740 --> 02:50.070 And you need to understand how to do everything manually. 02:50.940 --> 02:55.890 In a worst case scenario, if something's not working the way you expect it to, you could always revert 02:55.890 --> 02:56.710 to doing it manually. 02:57.090 --> 02:59.490 So thanks for watching this quick little update. 03:00.150 --> 03:07.410 I'm using my 20/20 right now as an update video, but the cemetery tool has been at least as far back 03:07.410 --> 03:11.610 as twenty eighteen, so you can use that throughout the course as well. 03:11.760 --> 03:12.690 Thanks for watching by.