Description

Retrieves the local or world-space scale of a node at the current time.

Functional area

Data retrieval

Command syntax

Syntax

getScale "moduleName"[-ws] [-inSpaceOf string] [-def]

Arguments

Name	Type	Required	Comments
`nodeName`	string	yes	The node to get scale for.

Flags

Name	Flag arguments	Argument type	Exclusive to	Comments
`ws`	0	—	—	Specifies that the worldspace value should be retrieved. The default is to retrieve local.
`inSpaceOf`	1	string	ws	—
`def`	0	—	—	—

Return value

vector

Examples

// Get the local and world space scale of the rhumerus bone.
vector $localScale;
vector $wsScale;

// First the local
$localScale = `getScale "rhumerus"`; 

// And then the world space
$wsScale = `getScale "rhumerus" -ws`;
print $localScale;
print $wsScale;

Additional information

Related commands

getRotation