hey this is Kev with blender binge in this video we're gonna be talking about
moving the object origin which is this little orange dot it's is very useful to
begin with rigging and a whole bunch of other stuff that you'd want to do in
blender and it's really really useful might not be the most exciting thing but
trust me you're gonna want to know this at some point so might as well learn it
now ready let's go now this video is sort of a follow-on to the video that I
did earlier in one of the alpha builds of blender and now that it's more of a
solid build in the beta here or going forward into 2.8 I want to talk about
this and show you how to do it so really quickly in order to move this little
orange dot all you have to do now and this is probably the fastest way I've
found is you can use this little cursor button up here and if you now left-click
and drag around you see it dragging and it kind of drags all over the place
right so wherever it lands you can set that as your object origin but you
probably don't want to do that you probably want to have it snap to an edge
or to a vertex so in order to do that we can turn on snapping up here this little
kind of ruler thingy and you can say let's say vertex all right and we'll
leave the rest of this alone and now if you you're still left clicking and
dragging but if you hold down the Alt key while you do this it will snap to
the vertices right same thing where is if you go to edges right and you click
and drag and you hold down alt it'll snap and it will follow along those
edges within reason if you pull too far away it snaps out but as you move
forward see it snaps back it just snaps and you can position this anywhere you
wanted so this is a really quick way in doing that same thing with faces you can
go face up here alright and you drag and you hold down alt and it will snap to
the faces all right hold down alt and you're on a face it's on the face and
now all you have to to move this little guy is go object set
origin origin to 3d cursor and that little thing moves now the nice thing
with this is once you position the origin of the object you can Center that
3d cursor again so I'm just hitting shift s and then I go cursor to world
origin right and if I go on this rotate tab now there's a little tool you'll see
that it holds okay your object is there okay really quick way of doing this and
positioning now if you want that to just kind of snap to the middle okay
the best way to do that is go into hit tab and you could say face alright and
I'll select this face I will say shift s hey cursor to selected that puts it
right in the middle of that selection to deselected face hit tab and now I could
just say object set origin and I can say origin to 3d cursor and now it's dead
center in the middle of that face and it works the same way with with edges too
so for instance if I hit tab last what I'm gonna do I select the edge alright I
want it to snap to the middle of this I just hit shift s I say cursor to
selected puts it right in the dead center of that now when I hit tab go
back out to object mode I'll go to object set origin and I can say origin
to 3d cursor and now it locks there and it rotates from here alright so if you
were to go ahead and Center your cursor or hide the cursor again right cursor to
world origin and you select this object again your object is centered right
there and again you could kind of change cursor or view or gimble global/local
any of these you can see the transform orientations or you could go a 3d cursor
and you can always rotate around the 3d cursor again but then you can always
change it back to active element and that'll snap it back to that pivot point
to that object origin point that you said so hopefully that makes sense
really short video but this is really if you start understanding how this works
this is the precursor to a lot of stuff that we're gonna do later with rigging
so you probably want to get this stuff kind of in your head or at least have a
rudimentary understanding of it so hopefully you got something out of this
short video if you did hit like subscribe hit that little Bell
notification cuz I'm gonna keep making more of these and I will talk to you in
the next video thanks bye