Questions tagged [origin]
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What is this dot?
I think this dot is the object's cursor. This is a cornice profile that I want to attach to a curve (path) and bevel. It appears the dot attaches to the curve path. Can this dot be moved to the corner ...
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how to print the centroid/origin of an object?
I am trying to re-center an object that I have imported into blender.
I have set the object origin to the Center of Mass of the object, now I want to translate the object so its' center of mass is ...
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Trying to animate but its animating all objects
So I'm trying to animate this robot and I had the animation down, it worked just fine, then I went to go to another animation and when I got back to this one it was all wonky. It was like it was ...
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Common origin of multi mesh character
I want to set the origin/pivot point of a multi mesh character to the feet of the character. I tried making an empty object as the parent to all other objects (and armature) of the character and have ...
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Blender 2.80 - Select Multiple Objects Not Working
I tried to select multiple objects using in select box mode, but it is only selecting the active object (the one that the origin point mark is showing).
What will be the cause? Is that bug or is ...
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Is there a way of having Blender reset the 'origin to geometery' automatically?
At the moment, when I resize or modify an object, I manually click Set Origin -> Origin to Geometry to recentre the manipulators in the object's bounds.
Is there any way of just having Blender do ...
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Cannot set pivot point for circle
I have a circle
This circle was created from long cube using a Simple Deform modifier.
The problem is than I cannot set pivot point directly to the center of circle.
I've tried all the set origin ...
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In edit mode, there is an origin located off the side of it's face. It ends up clumping everything together when subdivided. How do I fix this please? [duplicate]
The meshes clump together when subdivided:
The origin is off of the face:
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Exporting to Unity - Origin problems
I've noticed all my objects exported from Blender (FBX) have completely wrong origins when in Unity.
My Blender scene is made up of multiple objects which are spread out all over the place.
What's ...
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Why cannot I override the context for bpy.ops.object.origin_set()
I ran the following code to reset the origin of Cube:
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Incorrect normals in baked worldspace normal map
I don't know why, but Blender bakes incorrect normals in the worldspace normal map.
As example let's look on this simple plane tilted along the X axis at -45 degrees. The normal vector of this plane ...
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Why does parented to bone object copy location of tail instead of the head?
If you parent any object to the bone in pose mode ALT+P and then clear its origin (ALT+G, ALT+O), object moves to the Tail, which is a bit strange, because Head is the origin of bone's transformation.
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Move origin of all objects to same Y value
I am making a Font in Blender. I have modeled it as OBJ files for my 3D Rendering Engine, however I discovered the centers are all incorrect... the origins are at the origin of the world i modeled ...
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How do I reset the transforms of an object to the original values?
I think I accidently pressed something, and now I have the origin of the object away from the origin of the world, although, my other objects are working fine, and they "originate" from 0,0,0.
I tried ...
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How to efficiently flip and copy a part?
I'm trying to make a tank and after I finish one of the catapillar treads, complete with all the wheels, I need to mirror it for the other side. What I'm planning to do is set the origin to the middle ...
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How to fix relationship lines?
Sorry i'm new to blender so i dont know how can i word this question better. I just learned that these dotted lines relationship lines. So i guess they show parent-child relationship between objects ...
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Placing cameras on the scene
I am trying to place my cameras generated, on the scene. Instead it is being placed on the origin. I am stuck here and need guidance as to how to place on the scene in 4 different locations on the ...
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the faster way to move pivot or origin in object mode
Pls see the image, It should be simple :
In object mode, i want to move the pivot (transform handle) to the other end of the curve. I'm thinking this should be done by simply drag the axis (transform ...
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Relative scaling complex plane extrude? [duplicate]
I want to scale extruded faces from the complex plane in a way that each faces scale around their own origin.
I want it to look like the image on the right, but the default scale works on one pivot ...
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Why does the bottom face of my box render black in Cycles?
My scene has a box 45 m × 45 m × 10 m in height. The bottom face is located at Z=0. In the viewport render the bottom face renders black, when it should render white like the other faces.
If I move ...
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Changing an objects origin just changes its location
Whenever I try to set the origin of this patch of grass to the 3D cursor all that seams to happen is it moves the object location to the 3D cursor. Whats happening here?
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Armature Origins Wrong?
I feel like this question must have been answered, but I can't seem to find the answer here or on blender artists. Maybe I don't understand the issue well enough to google the right terms.
I'm having ...
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3D Manipulator/Origin behaviour issues due to 'Displayer Modifier'
https://youtu.be/lXeRm33Xi8E
The 3D Manipular/Origin of the individual vertices are not correctly visually displayed.
After the 'Display Modifier' is checked in an Armature Modifier to display the ...
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Align origin rotation to object
How can I align the origin's rotation to the "obvious" rotation of an object?
For example, you can see here that the origin rotation isn't the same as the rotation of the empty:
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Messed up origin point [duplicate]
Sometimes after I do some modifications with model or duplicate and do some modifications then the origin point of the model goes out of the model and it becomes hard to rotate/scale and do anything ...
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Why does the object change its location after setting origin?
I want to apply mirror modifier. My step:
For this example random vertex on eye:
What's wrong with this eyeball?
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Object expanding on rotation
I am making a model with a hierarchy of different parts, with their origins connected to another piece in the model. I am trying to animate with this model, and a piece is expanding upward as it ...
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How to reset origin of FBX model? [duplicate]
I export a FBX model from RHINOCEROS into blender. First the origin seem to be the x,y,z origin of the rhino file.
One I set the origin to the geometry, all the relationship lines appear.
I want to ...
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Centre-of-mass at a different location from the object's origin?
So I'm modelling objects where the vertices are aligned to the grid, and I snap the objects to the grid often so it is important that the origin is aligned to the grid as well. Of course when adding ...
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Is there a rule for where the origin point should be when modeling?
During modeling my origin point, (object origin) has moved and it has me wondering where the best place to put it is.
When modeling in Blender is there a general rule or suggestion for where the ...
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how to change origin to export a animation
I play on second life, a game where people can use avastar to make poses,animations ect. I opened blender yesterday to find when i went to export my animation that it was a red box with this
This ...
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Origin point different in editmode / objectmode
Edited due to comment by Serge L.
I'm following a tutorial to make a worm shaft - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVTOSOKpx6I
In objectmode my object has it's origin set to the 3D cursor, which is ...
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Change object orientation to be parallel with the orientation of a normal of plane [duplicate]
So I have an Object that is orientated in the World like this:
Even dough, the object is located and rotated with 0 values in all axes, the planar part (bottom / not round) of the mesh is not align ...
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Origin Point is rotating with the camera
I just have a problem with origin point, I searched for 4 days now and this seems to be the only place where people could help.
I cant move objects properly because the axes are not static, they move ...
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Camera is offset from path it is following
The camera is constrained to follow a path, and both the path and the camera are far from the origin of the scene. I can see that the camera is being offset from the path with the same offset it had ...
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Mirror in the wrong axis [duplicate]
First of all, sorry for bad English...
I got a Problem with the mirror modifier... The origin of my object is set to the 3D-curser, which is in the center (0, 0, 0). When I mirror my object, it ...
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Blender 2.79: Apply location snaps origin to the object's original location
Hi, I am encountering an issue in Blender 2.79 when I try to apply the location of an object. Every time I apply the location, the origin is reset to this random point off to the side. I'm guessing ...
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Object Orientation Widget
I have a file that has 9 separate objects in it. In Object Mode if I set it to Global, Local, Normal, etc... it's all the same arrow direction. If I go into Edit Mode, set it to Normal on the ...
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My mirror modifier doesn't mirror on x axis and rotation shows 0°, I applied rotation already
Hello i have a problem with my miirror midifier it currently looks like this:
I don't know what's the problem on google it says that i have to applyrotation but i already did and doesn't fix this. ...
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Set object origin to minimum Z (set to floor) (using examples from @TLousky)
I'm working off examples found here:
Getting global axis value of the vertex with the lowest value
(and other from @georges and @tlousky, many thanks!)
I'm working off a csv example and an 'set Z ...
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How to add another option to set object origin hotkey
I have a script that sets the objects origin to the center and the lowest point in z of the object.
Everything works and I have it in my own custom tab under tools.
But how can I add it to the ...
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Origin Points (and Colliders) Not Moving with Armature
I don't know if this has already been addressed elsewhere, but I couldn't seem to find any information on this issue.
I'm trying to make a chain of rigid bodies using bones and empty axis(s) with ...
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Object origin/pivot point perpendicular to an object [duplicate]
how can I make the origin/pivot point perpendicular to the object like the second image? Thank you...
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How do I use the tooltip to create keybinds? [duplicate]
The specific command I'm trying to set is bpy.ops.object.origin_set() which sets the origin of an object which is bound to default to Ctrl +Shift+Alt +C
This doesn't work:
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Lock object origin to 3D cursor
I have some problems about animating multiple objects since they're not moving at the same speed and because of that it doesn't seem like the objects are connected during the animation but only in the ...
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Move the origin point to the cursor in Edit Mode
I have a model where I would like to rotate an area of the object, in this case a mouth of a ordinary beast along a defined point, marked here with the 3D Cursor. And I am trying to move the selected ...
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Send Object To Origin
What is the shortest way (or a shortcut key if there is any) to move the object to the origin?
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Center cursor in python script?
I am getting an error when trying to center the cursor in a python script
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Out of position meshes imported from FBX
As you can see from the picture, I'm having trouble importing a static fbx mesh from 3ds max into blender. I find out it's because linked meshes into 3ds Max. Is there a way to avoid this without ...
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How do I set the location of the 3D axis?
I am new to Blender, so this is probably a common question.
The origin and the 3D axis indicator are in different locations. This affects how modifications applied in edit mode via S and mouse drag. ...
