From the course: Unreal Engine 5.6 Essential Training
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Working with pivots - Unreal Engine Tutorial
From the course: Unreal Engine 5.6 Essential Training
Working with pivots
- [Instructor] When you use rotate and scale, sometimes the pivot point of an object can matter as to how these tools work. So, let's take a look at pivot points and how to adjust them in Unreal Engine. Now, we're going to focus on this little round table here. So, I'm going to select that, hit the letter F for frame. And that's a nice shortcut that allows me to frame that table. And you can see that once I have that table selected, I get, I'm now in my Move tool here and I can move it if I want. But let's say I wanted to rotate it. Well, I can rotate this by hitting the letter E and going into the rotate tool. I can rotate it vertically. But let's say I wanted to rotate it along a horizontal axis, such as the Y axis. Well, if I do that, you'll see it tips this way, but it's also kind of going through the ground. Let's say I wanted to tip it up on its side here. Well, all I have to do is move that pivot point. So, if I hit W to go into the move tool, you'll see I have my move gizmo…
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