WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 Welcome to Re-centering Your Objects! 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:08.000 In this video we'll show you how to center your model in the view 3 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:12.000 and learn how to control an object's origin. 4 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:15.133 Let's hop straight on over into Blender! 5 00:00:15.133 --> 00:00:17.466 So here we are in Blender, and we're going to 6 00:00:17.466 --> 00:00:21.466 deal with two things. Now, first of all, I'll show you the origin, that 7 00:00:21.466 --> 00:00:25.466 origin is the orange circle right in the middle here 8 00:00:25.466 --> 00:00:29.466 and we can move that about to our hearts' content. It's also acts 9 00:00:29.466 --> 00:00:33.466 on several things, later on, in Blender, so it's important to understand 10 00:00:33.466 --> 00:00:37.466 its placement is critical when doing certain things. 11 00:00:37.466 --> 00:00:41.466 So first of all, let's zoom back out and look at our chess board, and 12 00:00:41.466 --> 00:00:45.466 a very good way of doing this is to simply press 13 00:00:45.466 --> 00:00:49.466 Shift and the letter C; that will 14 00:00:49.466 --> 00:00:53.466 center our view around the model that we have selected. So there we 15 00:00:53.466 --> 00:00:57.466 go! Brilliant! Now, let's go about exploring this 16 00:00:57.466 --> 00:01:01.466 origin! Now, on the Tool Shelf, you may have already spotted 17 00:01:01.466 --> 00:01:05.466 Set Origin, if we click on that it gives us a couple of options. 18 00:01:05.466 --> 00:01:09.466 So one is to move the Geometry to that Origin, so 19 00:01:09.466 --> 00:01:13.466 center the geometry, that is our chess board that's square in front of us 20 00:01:13.466 --> 00:01:17.466 or checker board in front of us. It'll move the geometry all the way across and 21 00:01:17.466 --> 00:01:21.466 center the geometry around the origin. The other, the next 22 00:01:21.466 --> 00:01:25.466 one down, is exactly the opposite, so the selection will stay 23 00:01:25.466 --> 00:01:29.466 absolutely fine, the geometry there, and it will move the origin 24 00:01:29.466 --> 00:01:33.466 to the center of our chess board. 25 00:01:33.466 --> 00:01:37.466 Now, Origin to 3D Cursor, we can move the 3D Cursor 26 00:01:37.466 --> 00:01:41.466 around. You've seen that before! And if we move the Origin to 27 00:01:41.466 --> 00:01:45.466 3D Cursor, you can see that the orange blob has moved to the 3D Cursor. 28 00:01:45.466 --> 00:01:49.466 Finally, Origin to Center of Mass! 29 00:01:49.466 --> 00:01:53.466 Now, because this board is equal 30 00:01:53.466 --> 00:01:57.466 all the way around, then Origin to Center of Mass does exactly the 31 00:01:57.466 --> 00:02:01.466 same, in this case, as Origin to Geometry, but for instance, in our 32 00:02:01.466 --> 00:02:05.466 pin in the last exercise, because it was larger on the bottom 33 00:02:05.466 --> 00:02:09.466 that it was on the top it does a calculation. You'll find the the origin will be 34 00:02:09.466 --> 00:02:13.466 slightly lower because it's got more volume, down at the bottom of that 35 00:02:13.466 --> 00:02:17.466 pin than it has bang in the middle. The Origin to Geometry would have put 36 00:02:17.466 --> 00:02:21.466 that smack bang in the middle of the pin, vertically 37 00:02:21.466 --> 00:02:22.933 and horizontally. 38 00:02:22.933 --> 00:02:25.300 So I've got a challenge for you now! 39 00:02:25.300 --> 00:02:27.733 I would like you to move the board's origin 40 00:02:27.733 --> 00:02:31.733 and its placement. So set the board's origin to the center 41 00:02:31.733 --> 00:02:35.733 of the board, and make sure the board is centered in our 42 00:02:35.733 --> 00:02:39.733 scene. Pause the video now and go and give that a 43 00:02:39.733 --> 00:02:43.733 go! OK guys, welcome back! 44 00:02:43.733 --> 00:02:46.000 Let's give that a go! 45 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:48.733 Alright, so here we are in Blender, and 46 00:02:48.733 --> 00:02:52.733 I've moved the origin or the origin happened to have moved all the way over here, 47 00:02:52.733 --> 00:02:56.733 far from any logical place. So I need to do a couple of 48 00:02:56.733 --> 00:03:00.733 things here! First of all, we can Set our Origin 49 00:03:00.733 --> 00:03:04.733 to the Geometry. So Geometry to Origin, or origin 50 00:03:04.733 --> 00:03:08.733 to geometry. Since that's already flattened on the X, Y plane, we will do that! 51 00:03:08.733 --> 00:03:12.733 So Origin to Geometry, and that's placed it smack bang 52 00:03:12.733 --> 00:03:16.733 in the middle of our board! Secondly, we want this whole board 53 00:03:16.733 --> 00:03:20.733 centered around the worlds where X, Y, and Z equal 0, 54 00:03:20.733 --> 00:03:24.733 so those two are there. So a couple of ways of doing that. Since we can move the 55 00:03:24.733 --> 00:03:28.733 origin to this 3D Cursor, we can also move the 56 00:03:28.733 --> 00:03:32.733 object of the 3D Cursor, but first of all, we need this 3D Cursor 57 00:03:32.733 --> 00:03:36.733 smack bang in the middle. There are a couple of ways of doing that but a very quick one 58 00:03:36.733 --> 00:03:40.733 is the Shift and S, and we can see there's a 59 00:03:40.733 --> 00:03:44.733 Snap. So we can Snap the Selection, that's currently the selected object, Chess Board, 60 00:03:44.733 --> 00:03:48.733 to our grid. We don't want to do that, so Selection to Cursor. That would move 61 00:03:48.733 --> 00:03:52.733 the whole Selection to the Cursor, as it is, so we'll need to do that in a moment but not 62 00:03:52.733 --> 00:03:56.733 now, because the cursor is in the wrong place and that's an 63 00:03:56.733 --> 00:04:00.733 offset to the one above. So finally, Cursor to Selected, 64 00:04:00.733 --> 00:04:04.733 that would move the cursor to the center of the geometry here. Let's bring back 65 00:04:04.733 --> 00:04:08.733 up the menu. Cursor to Center, now that's the one that we want, 66 00:04:08.733 --> 00:04:12.733 that'll snap the cursor right to the center of our world! 67 00:04:12.733 --> 00:04:16.733 So if we click on that, we can see the cursor's moved all the way over there. 68 00:04:17.633 --> 00:04:21.566 So now that we have the 3D Cursor in the right position, the next 69 00:04:21.566 --> 00:04:25.566 thing to do is move this board to there, 70 00:04:25.566 --> 00:04:29.566 as well. So after we've moved the 3D Cursor there, we can simply 71 00:04:29.566 --> 00:04:33.566 go Shift and S again, and we can move this 72 00:04:33.566 --> 00:04:37.533 Selection to the Cursor. So what we have selected is currently the board. 73 00:04:37.866 --> 00:04:41.866 and If we go Selection to Cursor, we'll find the board will 74 00:04:41.866 --> 00:04:45.866 snap across. Brilliant! A couple of other places you can 75 00:04:45.866 --> 00:04:48.300 find that option is 76 00:04:48.300 --> 00:04:50.100 under the Object Menu, under 77 00:04:50.100 --> 00:04:54.100 Snap we've got all of those options there for you. 78 00:04:54.466 --> 00:04:58.266 OK Brilliant! I'm going to center around our model again, 79 00:04:58.266 --> 00:04:59.666 and there we go! 80 00:04:59.666 --> 00:05:02.233 Let's move on to the next lecture!