Wiring Scale to Position

[Tughan]

Hi, I've been struggling through some intensive rigging experiments lately.
Now I stuck again, and need you guys help. :)

The thing is, I just want to wire an object's local Z scale value to another
objects local Z position. Basicly, there is a character, and I want to move
A spine control object up & down to make it's spine bones scale up and down.
I changed spine bone's scale to Scale XYZ :xyz: , then wire it's Z to spine Helpers Position Z, but when I do that the bone scales like x1000 or something. (I've used Reaction manager before, it worked great but that 'merge' bug is unbearable) Is there any way to make it stay in position, like that "Keep initial offset" checkbox do. :) A wire paramater variable that I don't know?

Thanks

[Black]

And your software would be?

(I am presuming Max.. but I have to insist that you guys get a habbit of stating this in your posts first. And care to read the stickies before you start a new thread please)

[Tughan]

Oh, I presumed that everyone will presume it 3dsmax. :) Sorry about that my friend. You're right. The thing is, I just asked this question over Discreet's message boards, and I totally forget about mentioning it here.

It wont't be happen again. ;)

[Clalan]

hmm, just tried it, should work fine. I used a wire parameter that sets the scale to 1 + 0.1 * Z_translation

- the default non-stretched value for scale is 1. could be that you are trying to get it to 100 or 0 or something.

- make sure the position of your control object is zeroed out or god knows what value you are passing on!

[Black]

Tughan;
It's ok.. welcome aboard.. the point about giving as mush data as you can to begin with would enable you to get much better input.
I think that Max is the only software that calls joints bones... and anyone who would be able to answer you would actually be in the level to know what program a variable parameter s found in. But that is not really the point.

I am glad you understand.

[Tughan]

Yes. Actually I want to participate more to Threedy Forums. But I always distracted and forget about here. :) from now on, I'll try to keep visit more frequently.

[goo_leo]

Can anyone help me step by step on how to wire scale to position in max?