Questions tagged [transform-orientation]
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Rotate camera around target object (within limits) using python & math utils, whilst maintaining camera facing toward target
I am writing a script to procedurally generate images of a target object on a terrain. The basic logic I am thinking of is to have the camera directly above the target pointing straight down, apply ...
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How to rotate an object in blender along a desired axis with python?
I have this idea where I want to rotate an object along an arbitrary axis at an angle to align it towards another object. I have got to the point where I already calculated the axis (x,y,z) and the ...
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Is it possible to slide NURBS control points along rows?
For a mesh, I can hit 'G' twice and drag a vertex along connected edges. This could be very useful when working with NURBS surfaces, as I am now inclined to for a specific model; however, double-G ...
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The Geometry Node 'Vector rotate' doesn't keep the relative rotation of an object
When I add an object with the GN 'Object Info' and the option 'Relative' this one only just keep the location but not the rotation.
What am I doing wrong in my Geometry Nodes, the 'Vector Rotate' in ...
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Applying all transformations not working even after saving
I am still new to blender. I am following a tutorial to build a scene and every time I open the file the objects keep moving to another location. I fix the objects and put them all into place then ...
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How to move vertices in depth mesh for 3D photos stanford .ply
depth mesh from a stanford .ply. From Stable diffusion Depth mesh generation. Stable diffusion does a great job but sometimes needs correction. It makes small mistakes deciding what should be at what ...
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How to Apply Transforms to a VDB volume object
I have imported a VDB file and it's orientation is wrong, but when I try to apply the location and rotation after orienting it in right direction, it doesn't work
It gives error - ...
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How to Edit Gizmo?
So, I want to rotate an object using a gizmo. The 3d cursor works fine to catch the position. But problem arise when the rotation of the gizmo is not how I want it to be. I'm also aware that I can use ...
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Geometry nodes - Align Instance object to face orientation, rotate normal to longest edge
In the question posted here...:
Geometry nodes - Align Instance object to face orientation
...a very usefull solution was provided to the problem of aligning instances in Geometry Nodes to the normal, ...
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Individual points tranform editing doesnt work when selecting face loops
I am trying to scale an entire object on the faces individual normal axis, by using normal transform origin and the individual origins pivot point in edit mode. This method works fine if I select only ...
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how can i align 3d cursor orientation to normal coordinates of the vertice or edge?
I need to add cylinder coaxial to randomly oriented edge of the mesh, aligning it's top and bottom with the vertices. It looks like I need to add cylinder, previously aligning 3d cursor position to ...
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Align & Rotate a plane automatically to a complex shape, "Grounding" a mesh when moving, (auto-rotate to floor?)
I have a complex, irregular mesh (a shoe) that I need grounded on it's side, on a plane. If I use DropIt or other add-ons to ground it, it only hits at the lowest point and the mesh seems to float at ...
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How can I align an object( text ) to a moving camera while the location of the object relative to the camera frame stays the same?
I want to align a text object to a moving camera.
I need the text object to stay in the same location inside the camera frame and always face the camera frame.
I added Copy Rotation Constrain to the ...
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Scale works weird with custom orientation
If i move an object using a custom transform orientation axis, everything works correctly. But scale works wrong, scale to 0 using custom X axis can't make object flat. And i can't scale the arm on ...
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How to apply rotation for Text in blender?
Target : Trying to use instance for text in circle
Current without text rotation:
After Rotation of text for X (Problem)
Circle Instance Properties:
Required: Align to Vertex Normal
Tried:
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How to rotate parent without affecting the children's location in blender?
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Rotate Parent and Child without affecting Child's Location
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Parent A
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Child A
When rotating Parent A. Child A and Child B also rotates with the parent object as pivot point (as ...
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As soon as I enter the "map to" value of the transfomation constraint, the object gets an offset
To explain my problem, i'd like to begin with what my intend is...
I have arrayed an object around an empty, nothing special. But i want to have a curve to connect the arrayed objects (ao in the ...
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Editing Grease Pencil Points in View Space
I'd like to get the coordinates of my selected Grease Pencil points and move them in relation to the 2D Camera View Plane coordinates (as you do when you use the View Transform Orientation).
For ...
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Importing FBX changes edit mode orientation
I auto rigged a person model with Mixamo and I imported it back into blender to add clothing. But when importing it the orientation when in edit mode is different from object mode.
Not just the ...
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How to rotate an object around another object's local axis?
I am making skyboxes for a game, and would like to prototype the skyboxes' rotation angle in Blender. I made a simple vertical mesh line that represents the rotation axis of the skybox, and I would ...
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Using Geometry Nodes, how do I get an object to have true upright camera alignment?
I was hoping I could get some help with a project I'm working on. Basically, I'm using Geometry Nodes to create a rotating dial, with an additional rotating arm holding a (planetary) sphere, ...
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How to Copy the Matrix of Curve1 to Curve2 but keeping the transform(no parenting)?
Curve1
Curve2
I am trying to copy the the (Transform) Matrix of the Curve1 to Curve2, while keeping the current point locations unchanged. (For sharing the same transform axes: same up, down etc for ...
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Moving an object back to the original position and rotation
I am finding it hard to move a copy of an object back to its original position.
How can I move the big object you see in the foreground back to the exact position and rotation you see the small object ...
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Applying all transform to a scaled rig
Hi I’m new to blender and I had scaled a rigged character using the armature but when I try to apply all transforms to the rig, the character deforms to something weird. How do i fix this without ...
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How do I move vertices in relation to pivot?
I would like to move multiples selections towards or outwards 3d cursor, or any other pivot, within orientation to View.
For example : For example faces on top of the grass lump in blend file. All of ...
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I want to make a transition effect but how? Help me
I want to make an effect like I put the images, but no matter how much research I did, I couldn't find it. Anyone know how to do this?
Link: https://vimeo.com/665069736?embedded=true&source=...
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How do I flip a pose along the y instead of the x axis?
I am trying to flip (or would mirror be the right word?) a rigged character pose along the y axis instead of the x. I understand for normal walk cycles etc you only really need to flip along the x. ...
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HexaSphere - fix rotation of each hexagon
I'm begginer in bledner. I created hexashpere where each hexagon is separate object. As you can see there is rotation 0,0,0 which is not true. All hexagons have rotation eqial to 0 and I don't know ...
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Extrude along normals not following slope
Can anyone advise me what I'm doing wrong here?
Following a tutorial where the ground layer has an incline of about 5 degrees. The layer above it is a face extruded in Z, duplicated from the ground ...
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Spinner with precession
Trying to create a spinner with precession. But without physics, just an animation.
So, the object is rotating around the Z axis. At the same time, the upper end of the Z axis should draw a circle in ...
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Satellite rotation
I am trying to make the rotation of the satellite around the Earth.
I'm obtaining the satellite's position in the orbit from TLE elements and getting the XYZ of it. So moving along the trajectory (...
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How to make this vertex follow this orientation?
I have a vertex which has crossed over making an overlap. I want to make this vertex follow a specific angle. I tried to make custom transform orientation, I also tried with local, and also double GG ...
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Align to normal vector with python
I was looking to orient an object to a selected active face of another object in Blender 3.2.
Already found other similar questions, but none worked:
Align to face normal vector (took code from here)
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How to control real time a hand model, with arduino, flex sensors and voltage dividers?
I want to make a project that uses Arduino, flex sensors and voltage dividers, and I want to control real-time a hand model in Blender (which is rigging-ready). I’m using version 3.2.1. The program on ...
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How do I parent the Contents of a collection as well as the Instance collection of the same collection(flipped) to an Armature empty
I have the contents of a collection parented to an armature, I have also made an instance of the same collection flipped it on the X axis and parented that collection to the same armature bone.
The ...
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Which are the maths operations behind Local Orientation Transform, when changing Location for randomly rotated Object in 3D Viewport Editor?
This is a theoretical question.
Hi there.
I've just found that it's quite challenging (if at all possible) to reproduce what the Local Orientation Transform actually does to an Object (e.g., a simple ...
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How do I fix bone orientation or align bones to global orientation?
So I imported an XPS model into Blender and the bones of the rig are all over the place, the face rig bones seem like they point along the normals of the mesh.
I want to make some custom controllers ...
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Issue with origin point, orientation and exact movements
This issue is in 3.2.0.
I looked around and already solved part of the problem I have with the origin point (setting origin to geometry, to centre of mass, to 3D cursor,etc.) and I know that applying ...
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Geometry Nodes: allign object based on procedural geometry
Hello! I'm working on a Geometry Nodes procedural project, and I would like to improve something within the system: as simplified in the picture shown, I'm starting with a cube with some subdivision ...
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Align 3D cursor to face in python
I'm making a small operator that aligns the 3D cursor to the selected face normal.
I have the following code:
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Animations - problem with multiple actions
I work as AR Developer on various software and Hololens 2 from Microsoft. I have an assembly created in Creo which I've exported to OBJ with groups containing particular parts so I can move them in ...
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Transform Orientations locked on "View"
I have a scene that was passed off to me,
for whatever reason I can't get it to go out of "View" for Transform Orientations.
I've tried setting it to Global, Local etc, but it persists. Any ...
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How to flip orientation of Edges / Vertices
I have a little problem over here. I have imported a spline from Inventor to Blender. When i now extrude this spline over a geometry node - the face orientation of some faces are wrong.
Can i flip the ...
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Align cylinder center with edge
I've been trying to solve this problem for days now and i'm stuck. I want to align this cylinders center line with the selected line.
I tryed to use the location information/coordinates of the line ...
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Align pivot/cursor along edge
I would like to move a few verts in the normal direction of an edge. But the 3d cursor doesn't seem to align with the normal direction. Instead, it snaps to the edge properly, but does not orient in ...
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Batch set orientation of local axes on multyple objects?
I have a structure composed of many separeted cylenders (maybe later it will be more complexe mesh).
And the local axes orientation of each cylender is wrong (based on global).
I know how to set (...
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Change scale and rotation when seperating meshes
I have an extremely specific issue, I'm trying to import my blender environments into a virtual reality game, Beat Saber. But the program made for beat saber can't handle mesh deformations. This means ...
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how to change scal behavour
simple technical question, how can I make the scale behave the same as move and rotate, when selecting one axis angel on the gizmo it should constraint to that axis, it does it with the move and ...
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How can I have an object follow a bone but retain its transforms
I have a skateboarding animation from Mixamo and I'm trying to attach the skateboard to the foot that isn't pushing.
When I Parent the skateboard to the foot bone it works but there is a small ...
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How to orient objects so that SimpleTransform/Bend works correctly?
SimpleTransform:Bend requires the object to be pre-rotated into an undocumented 'correct' combination of local and global rotations. Anything else causes the total fail of the code and you get the ...
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