Perfect axes!!!!

sfunk · **Perfect axes!!!! -** 07-06-2011, 11:41 PM

I have finally figured out how to get perfect axes in blender!!!!!

ElectricKirby · 07-07-2011, 01:10 AM

Enlighten us.

sfunk · 02:00 AM

should I reveal the secret we have all been looking for? or make you figure it out on your own? :P (i'll eventually get an explination up of how to do it, but I want to make sure it's 100% full proof before misleading anyone)(I have only got to check two objects so far, and it seems to work, but im going to make one more model check before explaining)

EDIT: alright, this is what I have found out about Blender, the worlds origin(or where the x,y,z axes meet) is what sets the final pivot point(axes) of an object. so the only possible way I have found (after using all types of constraints and transformations) in blender. so this pretty much the only way you can do it. you have to place all the object at the center of the blender universe to get a perfect axes on an object with subparts. I will make a quick video on what I mean if anyone doesn't understand

sfunk · 07-07-2011, 02:39 AM

here is the link to the youtube video to see how it is done

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKCa6uQDm0E

ElectricKirby · 07-07-2011, 01:14 PM

A transcript would be nice because I hate trying to watch video tutorials. Especially from Youtube, and especially with my internet.

InsertName · 07-07-2011, 01:26 PM

yay

Mr Kidnapper · 02:14 PM

Now I understand the trick. This won't work for high detail models, but the point is to move all of the subparts to the origin in blender before exporting to .ASE, then move them back after importing them in Alice. They all always technically had their own pivot points at the origin, he just had to move them to it.
But as I said, it won't work for anything complex. In Blender you could potentially work with complex objects, as all you needed to do was write down the unit distance to the origin and paste them back there when all was done, however in Alice this is not an option as the only form of measure is an arbitrary meter.
As I mess with blender for the second half of what I would call my first hour using it, I realize that it isn't blender that doesn't allow you to save multiple pivot points, it is the .OBJ format.
I imported my almost complete VTOL into Blender as a .3ds file. All of the pivot points, or "Origins" as Blender refers to it, are correctly placed.. With a few mishaps as blender seems to have exploded the model in several hundred directions.
When I export it into blender as an .OBJ file with a Blender preset, all of the origins merge into the center and the object has not exploded. The model is also, for some reason, facing the ground.
Perhaps what you should do is find a way to export to .ASE that does not involve the .OBJ format. I would not be surprised if blender already had a script that would allow it to export to .ASE.

sfunk · 07-07-2011, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr Kidnapper

Now I understand the trick. This won't work for high detail models, but the point is to move all of the subparts to the origin in blender before exporting to .ASE, then move them back after importing them in Alice. They all always technically had their own pivot points at the origin, he just had to move them to it.
But as I said, it won't work for anything complex. In Blender you could potentially work with complex objects, as all you needed to do was write down the unit distance to the origin and paste them back there when all was done, however in Alice this is not an option as the only form of measure is an arbitrary meter.
As I mess with blender for the second half of what I would call my first hour using it, I realize that it isn't blender that doesn't allow you to save multiple pivot points, it is the .OBJ format.
I imported my almost complete VTOL into Blender as a .3ds file. All of the pivot points, or "Origins" as Blender refers to it, are correctly placed.. With a few mishaps as blender seems to have exploded the model in several hundred directions.
When I export it into blender as an .OBJ file with a Blender preset, all of the origins merge into the center and the object has not exploded. The model is also, for some reason, facing the ground.
Perhaps what you should do is find a way to export to .ASE that does not involve the .OBJ format. I would not be surprised if blender already had a script that would allow it to export to .ASE.

I was actually wondering the same thing about the possible script of exporting as an .ASE, I haven't had time to really look for it, but was planning on doing it soon, because like you said and what I have said before, blender does offer subpart pivot points, it's just the conversion that screws it up. and this way isn't 100% effective since at times rotating an object can throw an error :/

Mr Kidnapper · 07-07-2011, 04:59 PM

http://www.katsbits.com/smforum/index.php?topic=147.0
That was fast. 5 second Google. Unfortunately this add-on does not work for me, since I use the development build. The export feature shows gray. I don't intend on searching further since the add-on has nothing to do with me.

sfunk · 07-07-2011, 05:15 PM

[QUOTE=Mr Kidnapper;38604]http://www.katsbits.com/smforum/index.php?topic=147.0
That was fast. 5 second Google. QUOTE]

I meant in actually setting it up to use and test