I've got an empty object which is parent to a couple of meshes. I want to keep these meshes seperated in order to be able to adjust their materials individually, but I want to rotate them altogether. That's why I created the empty object and set it to be the parent to those meshes. I am able to rotate them together, but the pivot point is (0,0,0).
If I try to set the origin of the empty object via Ctrl + Shift + Alt + C it doesn't change anything. I can change the origin of all the meshes to the desired pivot point, but still can't rotate them via the empty object. Any suggestions on how to achieve that? Thanks in advance!
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to snap cursor to your empty, select desired objects and rotate them around themselves or around 3D Cursor $\endgroup$ – Mr Zak Jun 24 '15 at 16:11