[Closed] Scale to world axis??

could you be a tad more specific?
if english aint your strongsuit maybe add some before and after pictures so we get what your after?! :arteest:

for example,

box01 is at position 40,40,40

and its pivot is center to object,

with script if i scale it , it does only based on pivot, scaling to center pivot is working,

but i want the scale script should work with pivot taking to word axis, and scale… it

scale local takes place, which i want to make scale with world axis…, how to do this…

hi ,

i want to control using script, not manually,

scale$ [0.5,0.5,0.5] this line of script scales the selected object to 50% , but it scales, taking the object local axis, but it should scale taking the pivot to world axis, and scale… to 50%… how??

(
	for o in selection do
	(
		local op = o.transform
		o.pivot = [0,0,0]
		scale o [0.5,0.5,0.5]
		op = scale op [0.5,0.5,0.5] true
		o.pivot = op.pos
	)
)

yes thank you, it works, exactly, what i need… for the above script,

can u please help this out, i am newbie for scripting side,

this is the script i use to convert an object to max file name,

max_file_name = getFilenameFile maxFilename
sel=selection as array
for s in sel do s.name=max_file_name

but how can i able to select an object, which has the maxfile name. with in the file, .,??

select
getNodeByName
if/then/else expression
for loop

are the things you want to look up

if you want to check a file thats still closed:

getMaxFileObjectNames
array methods
string methods

and something you want to look up in general:
scope of variables
local and global variables

for o in selection do (o.transform =  o.transform * scalematrix [0.5,0.5,0.5])

the above script performs scaling about the world axis (whats confusing is, coordsys world performs scaling on local axis :surprised ).

hehe nice one, i always do stuff the hard way