Reflect Soft Select transformations

User Guide > Modeling > Polygonal Modeling > Sculpting surface meshes > Soft Selection >

You can turn on Soft Select and Reflection simultaneously for any of the transformation tools to reflect your soft select transformations across either the world or object axis.

When using reflection and soft selection together, Maya reflects a transformation performed on one side of the seam to the other. As a result, performing a soft select reflected transformation on a non-symmetrical object will yield a non-symmetrical object. For more information see Move, rotate, or scale components with reflection.

When transforming components with soft selection near the reflection seam, you may notice that the components near the seam don’t transform as smoothly as those further away. This is because the seam has its own falloff independent of the soft selection falloff.

To smooth a transformation near the seam

With Reflection on, select the components on the mesh that you want to transform in the scene view.
In the Tool Settings editor, set the Seam Tolerance to a value higher than its current value.
Transform the components.

As you increase the Seam Tolerance, the transformations around the seam become smoother.

NoteThe Seam Tolerance only affects transformations that move components away from the seam. Any transformations that move components along the seam are unaffected by this option.