Setting zeros/origins in Wings

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 01 Oct 2006, 18:04

Is it possible? It would kick colossal ass if it was. But I've been using it for like four years and have never stumbled across the function anywhere... Anyone know if it's hidden there somewhere? Thanks

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 01 Oct 2006, 18:07

This would be pretty good..

I forgot how to change origins over the past two days in UpSpring...

Clicking and trying to move em didn't work, I will have to look for keys and stuff...

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 01 Oct 2006, 18:09

I couldn't find it in Upspring either! Just "approximate origins"... which isn't really very useful. Maybe it's only enabled on S3O units or something?

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 01 Oct 2006, 18:10

I'll have to pop a s3o up then, cuz I really need to be able to set origins, or just check a tutorial..

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 01 Oct 2006, 18:36

You can't... at least not in wings.

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 01 Oct 2006, 19:38

<3 Truespace 3 :)

Though..it's certainly not the best for Spring, it uses a weird scale, z-up, and inverse faces. Other than that, it does everything I want it to.

Wolf-In-Exile · Post by **Wolf-In-Exile** » 01 Oct 2006, 20:38

It would be really great if we could assign an origin...

My suggestion would be to make an object named "Origin" or something like that to be considered the default origin point for a model.

Gnomre · Post by **Gnomre** » 01 Oct 2006, 22:19

Move the child object relative to the parent object's origin and hit Apply transform in Upspring. That resets the origin. For example, if I have a shoulder and forearm piece, and only the forearm is messed up, I'd need to move the elbow into the shoulder where I want the elbow's point of rotation, relative to the shoulder's origin, hit the button and move it back. Both myself and Argh have suggested a seperate tool for moving ONLY the origin in Upspring, which would be by far the simplest solution.

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 01 Oct 2006, 23:55

Click and drag would be awefully nice.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 02 Oct 2006, 00:09

Manual origin edition would be nice. I never ever move my pieces in uspring except for origins and firepoints. In addition to the approximate center origin function some sort of approximate center origin at min/max X/Y/Z would be really neat too :)

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 02 Oct 2006, 09:26

Before exporting I place the cursor at the desired origin for the piece, hit Centre Cursor and alt-G to move that origin to the world origin which the obj exporter uses. Then I move everything back in place after importing into Upspring.

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Setting zeros/origins in Wings

Setting zeros/origins in Wings