Chest Top E -> Alt S Different result

[fighter2g]

I’ve followed the tutorial exactly, but I am getting a different result when thickening the chest top after separating the side boards.

Select everything.

Hit E, right click to cancel. Alt S to scale, and I even have my mouse in the same location.

When i check my “shrink/flatten” mine says -0.109, while the video has a positive number, but a positive number for me goes the wrong direction.

Where am I going wrong here?

[spikeyxxx]

Hi @fighter2g , that will be because your normals are are facing the other way, compared to the video.

Select all (in Edit Mode) and press SHIFT+N to recalculate the normals.

ALT+S scales along the normals, so if the normals are flipped, it scales in the opposite direction.

[fighter2g]

I’ve done SHIFT + N, and it didn’t help. I turned on normaaN3l visibility and it shows my normals facing correctly.

[fighter2g]

So what I do know is that when I use alt S, my entire top area of this top part of the chest seems to indent inside, instead of making anything thicker. 

Is E -> Right click to cancel move wrong here somehow? What’s going on?

[spikeyxxx]

So that’s okay then. The minus says it’s shrinking and not fattening and that’s what you want;)

If it’s the other way in the video, then the normals were flipped there, I guess…

[fighter2g]

I found the “face orientation” button, and yes my normals are inverted. I guess the option to show those little blue lines weren’t very clear.

[fighter2g]

Even with flipping my normals to face the right way, it didn’t solve the issue. I still get the same end result. Alt S toward the inside simply pushes my faces inside, instead of making them thicker

[fighter2g]

Even with flipping my normals to face the right way, it didn’t solve the issue. I still get the same end result. Alt S toward the inside simply pushes my faces inside, instead of making them thicker

[spikeyxxx]

This is happening because the ’rounded planks’ are connected to the sides. But you scale them separately.

Try this: in edge select mode select the rounded edge loops like this:

Then press V.

Now you can select the rounded planks by hovering over one of the edges and press L.

Go ahead and do what you tried before: E right click (or Escape) and then Alt S.

Extrude the sides separate…

[fighter2g]

This creates the same issue still. I was also already able to select the rounded planks separately.

I do notice that when he is pressing E in the video he can move it anywhere, while i can only move mine in the Z direction, is there some setting that I’m missing?

[spikeyxxx]

I don’t know what you are doing wrong.

I followed the exact steps Kent used in the video and got this:

I suggest you start over with the lid and do exactly like Kent. Step by step. Now it probably works.

You’ve done something wrong somewhere, but I can’t figure out where or what.

(Also he couldn’t move it anywhere after Extrude, there was a blue line along which he could move it.)

[fighter2g]

Thanks for the help. I’ll try redoing it.

[fighter2g]

Working now! I don’t know what i did wrong before, but now everything is great when i redid the whole thing.

[spikeyxxx]

Could be that you had some double vertices (maybe from extruding and then using CTRL Z to undo, which undoes the Transform, but not the Extrude). Then the rounded planks would be connected to those double verts, causing the ‘indentation’.

Something like this has happened  to me a lot: I followed a tutorial to the letter, but at a certain point, my results were (completely) different! Then, when I couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong, I just started over and then it worked (usually finding out what I did wrong the first time, by doing it again…)

[Kent Trammell]

@spikeyxxx Thanks for being so helpful here 👊

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