Bone resizing fail?

[wagnerpf]

When I try resizing bones they never increase or decrease away from their original radius size. This is making rigging the hands of my model quite difficult lol. Any suggestions?

[SPARTAN-001]

I don't quite get what you mean by that. Could you clarify exactly what you're doing, and what you expect to happen?

[wagnerpf]

I'm trying to resize a bone so that the bone is "thinner." When I select the bone and hit "S," the bone will become either longer or shorter but not thinner. I'm not clicking the middle mouse button or anything; i have no idea why it refuses to resize this dimension of the bone. None of the resize locks are on.

[SPARTAN-001]

In order to resize bones, you use alt+s, rather than just using s. That should give you the result you want.

[wagnerpf]

Hmm, that's not doing anything. I'm using blender 2.5, don't know if that changes anything..

In object mode alt+s resizes the entire armature but when I go to edit mode to change the size of an individual bone it does nothing.

[SPARTAN-001]

I swear I used to know this, but I've forgotten it now, sorry. I'll play around for a while and see if I remember how to do it.

[wagnerpf]

Alright, thanks, I appreciate it.