Yes. I would love more of these quick tutorials on basic methods for people like me who are new to Blender.

Yea, more Blender videos :D

Yess!!! I needed that origin pie menu short cut!

Cursor is a powerful thing. I am using it every time when i am working. Also it is very helpful when you want to set the same origin for many different models.

I learned about origin points, world origin, and the 3D cursor by constantly screwing things up and spending embarrassing amounts of time trying to troubleshoot. I just knew that applying transformations was important, so that would usually solve the problem. It's definitely better to understand why things are not behaving as expected!

@nibblrrr7124

3 жыл бұрын

Usually, you just want to *apply scale.* You generally want to keep rotation, esp. in hard surface modeling (e.g. for moving/scaling along local axes by hitting the X/Y/Z twice). Same for location. Applying it basically just puts the object origin on the world origin (0,0,0) - not sure where you would want to use that.

@jeffg4686

Жыл бұрын

sounds familiar to me. My biggest issue when learning was not 'applying' things when they needed to be.

EXCELLENT !!! Short and complete explanation. Many thanks.

this is the one thing that will trip up users of other software about blender. thankfully in 2.8 you can easily find things for this in the interface but conceptually this is still something thats really great for first timers and even refresher info for people that dip in and out.

I wish I could get all this in muscle memory. The complexity of it all is what always brings me back to maya, where pivot handling and snapping is a charm. Everything else in blender is pretty damn good though. Thanks a lot for all your videos guys, you've helped me tremendously through the years.

@alchemy5750

Жыл бұрын

It was good in Blender too until they decided to massacre the Shift+Ctrl+Alt+C combo. Now you have to search the menu for exact origin snapping which is just uncomfortable and an inconveniece

@TheWharbleHarble

Жыл бұрын

@@alchemy5750 It was never good... its literally just free

Wonderful! Thank you so much I had just experienced exploding my model after applying transforms and this really clearly helped explain what I did wrong and how to fix it haha. Great best practice advice, thanks again :)

Oh my god....thank you so much! :D I can not put into words for how long I was banging my head into the wall trying to get the armature to work properly when rigging and how to (easily) rotate the DAMN OBJECT

This was so helpful! 😀 Thank you so much! 🤩🎉

Very helpful video, thank you for sharing.

Darn I was using the 3D cursor as my rotate point which is limited. This is a much better way to work using the Origin. I like setting my Origin to Geometry Hotkey as CTR Shift right click. Feels good to me. Always love the Blender Videos. Keep them coming.👍

Fundamental lesson! Thank you

Excellent Tutorial!

Very well done, thank you.

Thank you! Very helpful

Ty so very much. Took forever to find this video lol.

Terrific! Thank you.

very cool. thanks for the vid. great help

your videos are sooo great i love it

This video was amazing !!!! Felicidades !

Love it! Keep it coming!

@FlippedNormals

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Rune :) Hope you're doing well

Simply Great! TY

Amazing, thanks!

The 'affect origin + snap to vertex' is saving me, thanks!

@richochet

3 ай бұрын

+1

thank you! now i don't have to do the normal 20 trillion clicks, moving the cursor to selected, then manually clicking origin to 3d cursor. life = changed. i love you, ctrl+alt+x, 8

GREAT! thank you!!

Ok this is good to know cause i had never had a clue why all of my objects are moving randomly around xD Thank you very much for this video :D Very helpfull!

@FlippedNormals

3 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help!

thank youu so much for this video!!!!

yo bro, really thankya. Big respect

Thank you so much. Such a simple thing annoyed the heck outta me.

Excellent!!!

Very helpful video - thanks.

@FlippedNormals

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you very much!

Very Helpful❤

Thank you!

Worked, thx

Great video thank you. One note - You said to move the cursor use Alt ar RMB - I found that it was actually Shift and RMB. Maybe my setup is different but your video still helped me work it out.

a lifesaver thank uuu

Very useful.

Thanks for the video. What about moving the origin to the center of mass of a collection? I have a lever with two arms and the pivot point is in the middle between the two ball joints. I made a collection out of the two points, but couldn't find a "Center of mass of collection" option. I resorted to creating a cylinder grabbing its center and then deleting the cylinder. Then I used that point to place the origin of the entire lever. There has to be a better way. Thanks!

I'd really like to see you guys making a video on the workflow to sculpt in blender. Like in Zbrush usually is : Dynamesh for large sculpting then Zremesh to create a better topology than subdivision to make the details and have the hability to down the subdivision and make bigger changes. How would that be in Blender ?

@Strevehn

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@nibblrrr7124

3 жыл бұрын

AFAIU the equivalents in Blender are called *Dyntopo,* Voxel/QuadriFlow *Remesh* and *Multiresolution modifier.* No idea which details differ, or how well Blender's tools stack up against a specialized sculpting software. Apparently, multires was kinda borked before 2.90, and a bunch of sculpting features have been added or improved over the year (mostly thanks to Pablo Dobarro) - so yeah, maybe the *2.93LTS release end of May would be a great occasion to get something like a best-practices workflow overview?* ;)

Very useful. I couldn't find coordinates of a face (to align another face with it), because its origin was in another place. On the other hand, if I press "origin to geometry", it moves the dot to the object, but the arrows remain to stay at the center of the scene. So if I press s to change scale, it still shifts around the center of the scene.

very nice 👌👌❤️❤️👍👍

thank you

thank you.

Definitely MORE Blender vids... both on YT and in FN's products.

@FlippedNormals

3 жыл бұрын

You got it!

Thank you so much! Is there a video for teaching how to render a car?

Thanks. Feeding the algorithm.

Excellent video! But please add sections to your video for an easier navigation! Thanks you for uploading it

Would you considet creating c4d for ae tutorials?

Coming from Maya, where "d" does all the job, seeing this is holy. Thanks !!

hi, any shortcut to turn off / uncheck >Transform >Affect >ORIGIN?

vErY VeRy GoOd!

Great fundamental lesson, I've been wondering myself since moving. But I can't help but feel like this is terribly overcomplicated for something thats basically 1 button to edit pivot and one button to snap in maya. Pain in the neck, I do hope there's a more elegant solution to this soon

@iCamSkiEz

3 жыл бұрын

On a side note would of course love more videos like these from you guys!

Alt-Shift-X does not work for me (Blender 3.3.1 fresh install in Win 10). Using shortcuts only is not fully clear. I found the option in Object > Set Origin > Origin to 3D cursor.

I cannot see the orange dot object origin point when I select my objects in either object or edit mode, what could be the reason? I cannot find a fox anywhere

I have Blender 3.4 and I can't find the menu @ 2:22. Is there something I need to do or?

impressive,very well said,tNice tutorials is what I need to learn soft soft,your the bes n

Snapping the origin point directly saves so much time compared to how I would choose some vertices or faces, set the cursor to the selection, then right click and choose origin to 3d cursor

COOL

What do i do if my origin is not following its own mesh please i need help

great

So how about when you rotate a cube, apply (freeze) it's transforms and then want to get the old orientation? Eye balling the origin rotation isn't enough. Is there a way to orient the origin to a face?

@zbop220

3 жыл бұрын

Yes....it can be done, but it can be pretty tricky, if you need a cube exactly where it was. It takes a lot of shaping and rotating on local or normals. A better way is a free addon Mesh Align Plus. Makes this very easy.

@nibblrrr7124

3 жыл бұрын

May I ask why you would apply the rotation in the first place? (Just applying scale is usually what I need.) Or do you mean if you did it by accident & can't undo?

@roxonogueira

3 жыл бұрын

@@nibblrrr7124 yes, if it happens by accident of if I join other geometry.. it happened to me a lot in maya, but we could just align the pivot to any face we wanted. Switching to blender, I haven't found a way to solve this issue. I know it can be done, because I know the 3d cursor has an orientation

@5:26 I really got stack moving the origin, i had no idea what shortcut i clicked to activate it, i was so confused, thanks for the solution!!!

Very cool and informative. I think you have to be careful when scaling the origin tho (10:30). You're not just scaling the gizmo. This will cause the scale values to be different from 1,1,1 (aka "unapplied" scale) which can cause problems.

@cadmiumeye01

2 жыл бұрын

How can I scale without changing the 1,1,1. I hate that you have to apply all the time

@CGDive

2 жыл бұрын

@@cadmiumeye01 You can scale in Edit Mode. Just select all verts/polygons and scale away.

This is really good info but no matter what I do the origin is stuck. I've set up my layout as close as I can to this. object - (origin to geometry) doesn't work. Changing pivot point doesn't work (was recommended of a forum). Options - (Affect only) (with snapping on and using G) doesn't work. I am in object mode in fact that's the only mode I can see. I did at one point in affect only mode see an orange circle moving but the origin didn't budge.

Big fan of yours sir you such a great man keep uploading new stuffs for us sir and love you from india

@FlippedNormals

3 жыл бұрын

So nice of you :)

@yuvrajdafouti4517

3 жыл бұрын

Not much as you are 😁❤️

💚💚💚💚Thanks 💚💚💚💚💚

The real question is how can I group in Blender to have multiple pivot controls like I can do in Maya? I tried collections but it doesnt work the same way

@NotSoAccurate

3 жыл бұрын

Try with empties. That's the same as in 3ds max anyways.

Why not just select the vertice and select origin to selected? Am I missing something why you shouldn't do that? I'm quite new to blender

@nibblrrr7124

3 жыл бұрын

Seems to work, even from inside edit mode. Thanks! Wasn't familiar with the _3D Viewport Pie Menus_ addon myself.

I just wish Blender had the shortcut bar which Maya has where you can pin your custom shortcuts. Is there?

@zbop220

3 жыл бұрын

Long time Blender user, I wish it did too. You can sort of have that with the Quick favorites Q key. Just right click something you like and add to quick favorites. Not quite the same though.

@AMITAWAGHADE

3 жыл бұрын

@@zbop220 Yeah I have been doing that. But having a bar at the top saves a lot of time IMO.

Do more blender tutorials!

This one is pretty much required training. Not getting anywhere without understanding origin point. That's what always tripped me up when I first started - likely the biggest 'trip up' on regular basis (and all the shortcut keys oc). Origin to Geometry doesn't work for armatures as there's no geometry - I think they should still make it work tho (just move it to center of bone locations).

Someone know how to move the origin point onto the mid of the center from another object? Imagine to make a super mario mistery box and I need to copy and rotate the question mark for instance~

Thank you! But how to freeze the origin without reset the original position?

@nibblrrr7124

3 жыл бұрын

What do you mean by "freeze"? And can you maybe briefly name an example of what you're trying to use it for?

@Vegas-46

3 жыл бұрын

@@nibblrrr7124 Sorry, I'm new in blender, and I called this action "freeze", like Maya. What I mean, for example is move the origin from the center of an object to the floor, and then apply al the transform without reset the position of the origin. In my cade when I apply the transform the origin will return to the center of the object.

@zbop220

3 жыл бұрын

@@Vegas-46 Ah, Freeze is called Apply transforms in blender. The hotkey is ctrl +A or you can find it in the Object menu at the top on the viewport header.

origin to cursor doesnt work on imported image planes and this is what im trying to figure out.

Make video on edge slide to move in different direction with pivot point

This is great, but can anyone explain why it just doesn't work? I've selected my object, and no matter what I do, the centre origin just does not move. I'm in object mode?

Now, do the Outliner 😂

I will not lie if I say that it take me a while to understand origin points in blender when I jump from 3dsmax.

HELP ANYONE!!!! I need a question answered, cant find the solution anywhere. It turns out you can actually SELECT the point of origin and delete it. Which is exactly what I did. Can anyone tell me how to get it back!!!!! this sucks.

I missed your voice :D i cant tell who's Henning or whos Morten because you guys have the same voice but still!

@FlippedNormals

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad to be back :)

the 2nd way is better.. i wish it was a toggle on the INSERT key like in Maya

@FlippedNormals

3 жыл бұрын

I know.. that would be super handy

I miss having a 3D Cursor after I switched to Maya

@YegorSmirnov

3 жыл бұрын

Come back! We still have it :)

@zbop220

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed! Maybe its just my inexperience in Maya but are the snapping options not as good too? I've found it very hard to put the pivot back precisely in Maya without a cursor, and my Maya coworkers didn't seem to have any elegant solutions.

@SewerShark

3 жыл бұрын

@@zbop220 Well, you can hold X to snap to the grid or C to snap to vertices, but I used to like how I could simply type the X, Y, Z coordinates and have it wherever I want it...even for vertice positions.

I have long wondered why you can't just press O and then manipulate the origin as if it was an object in itself. All the thing you can do to objects or vertices could be cool to have available for origin. Holding multiple objects and pressing O before rotating or scaling? Only origins move, good for making objects close in on each other or move in elegant formation, without mesh deformations. And that's just the utmost basic example.

@henriklarsen8193

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, and pressing shift O during an action (like you use shift Z to exclude the Z axis) would essentially be the individual manipulation option that already exists, so that's one free-floating tool that can be folded into something more systematic.

@zbop220

3 жыл бұрын

You can do this, there is a toggle to move, rotate and scale by the origins only. Meaning the mesh will ride along but not be distorted. This is especially good when using scale, like if you have some pillars and you want to space them farther but you don't want the pillars distorted. I forget where it is exactly but its called "Origins Only".

@zbop220

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, its a toggle under the pivot point types drop down on the header.

@nibblrrr7124

3 жыл бұрын

Like iRowebot said, it's _Affect Only Origins_ in the _Options_ dropdown on the top right of the viewport. You can even right click on the checkbox and assign a custom shortcut to it - though "O" is already taken for _Proportional Editing_ by default. ;)

it wont work im tryna do gfx for my robloxg ames but my bacon is not in middle nad wont go in middle

Coming from Maya, I literally just got a headache from watching this. Why is it that unnecessarily complicated to simply move the pivot to a specific location? Also why can't I move the pivot point in Edit mode?!!!! In Maya you simply press D once for pivot mode and can transform it however you want and don't have to struggle around with so many different buttons. Holding V for snapping or X for grid snapping. It is so important for modelling and in Blender you just waste so much time with it. If someone can explain me how to use it like in Maya please tell me.

Note to myself: 5:21 move origin directly

We all learn differently, I watched, attempted and fucked up, now I’ve watched again, attempted and hopefully won’t fuck up... as much

its not alt + right mouse button to move the 3d cursor its shift + right mouse button guys

Welcome to blender, we made the simplest shit at least three times harder than it is supposed to be. It is just ridiculous!

please, of all the 3d programs it is the easiest to understand starting from zero, this perception is only held by 3d max, maya etc people.

I lost 2 years. Thank you. T.T

Love blender but in maya its just one click

HOW THE FUCK TO SET THE 3D CURSUR TO CENTER PIVOT POINT?

daddy

Mac computer's don't have the button. This video uses it constantly. Fuuuuuuuuuu

This is the reason why i buried blender. Cursor, origin, gizmo, what a mess. You need 20 clicks to move the gizmo where on lets say maya, you click once. Yes, once.