Questions tagged [transform-orientation]
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Scale from Center to margin
new player here.
I have made this model and I want to raise the center to let's say 8 cm and the margin remains like that, 2cm. I want to give it a round semi-sphere shape from the center, along with ...
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Geometry Nodes: rotate instances which intersect with reference object (points and meshes)
The past months I received valuable feedback, coaching and knowhow on my first Geometry Nodes question on this forum (How to align object on normal vector between vertex and line)
The past weeks I ...
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In geometry nodes: moving instances relative to one another in sequence, and with individual control of rotation
I'm trying to rotate individual objects using GeomNodes. However I want to control how much each one rotates. Also every object should rotate with respect to the one in front in a vertebrae kind of ...
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avatar scale size parameters are changing while exporting in glb format
we imported house(.fbx) into blender.
Next we imported avatar(.glb) into blender.
We have adjusted the size of the avatar by changing the scale values as shown in the screenshot.
While exporting the ...
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Procedural material orientation
I'm new here on Blender, so I create my procedural wood material and I applied it on four separate objects. I'm wondering if there's a way do give a different orientation on each object for the same ...
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Rotation of a profile using the "Curve to Mesh" node in Geometry Nodes
So, I have a small hair simulation setup I imported from Houdini using an alembic Mesh Sequence Cache modifier. It is one curve object and all the points of these curves are slightly shifted:
To give ...
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Move Tool scales Reference Image
Blender 3.6.2 - I can use the Move Tool on the Default Box and slide along the axis's by grabbing the arrows in a new file. However I can't do that after importing a Reference Image. After bringing in ...
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Object orientation based on face
How do I match the orientation of the half cylinder with the orientation of the rectangle (they should both face the same direction).
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how to change fluid to object
new to the forum, my name is carl.
I would like to create an animation of a fluid that at the end of the race turns into a fruit. Could you please tell me what technique to use to achieve this result.
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Python: how to effectively rotate 2pi on local axis?
I am trying to rotate an object over it local axis in 2pi using python. Basically I want to animate this, so the problem in rotating the object in ...
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How to set the Object local axis as Global Axis
I am following a tutorial of rigging a car in blender for UE5 in that he told me that all parts of car should be oriented to global x and y axis can anyone give me how to change the axis step by step ...
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How can I get a object to face the Direction of its Linear velocity?
I using the UPBGE game engine and I am trying to get an object to turn towards the direction of it's linear velocity vector.
Here is an example of what I have so far:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/...
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Blender 6D pose data generation
I am trying to get relative pose of object ( x,y,z and rotations ) with respect to the camera. My object is placed at origin (0,0,0) World Coordinates and the camera is following a trajectory while ...
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Natural orientation with Geometry Nodes
I'm trying to orientate the two half spheres with the line. I did a lot of test but no ones gives the result I hope.
My Geometry Nodes
Any idea?
Thanks for your help :)
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How to keep an object flat relative to the camera?
I'm trying to create a 2D look for an animation and found that the lighting came out really nicely when I flattened my model the same way the camera was facing.
However I don't want my model to just ...
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How to match the local transforms to another object without rotating the model
I'm trying to match one objects orientation to another without changing the model rotation.
I was able to come close to what I wanted by creating a custom orientation, but I would need to apply that ...
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Script for automatic re-aligning objects to make linked-duplicates
I have over 1000 copies of a given reference object.
Translations and rotations have been applied to all copies.
Unfortunately, I haven't used 'linked duplicate'
and in order to make all 1000 objects ...
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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 a vertex or edge?
I need to add cylinder coaxial to randomly oriented edge of the mesh, aligning its top and bottom with the vertices. It looks like I need to add cylinder, previously aligning 3d cursor position to one ...
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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
Child A
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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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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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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