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Rotating geometry

Rotating geometry - Alias Tutorial

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Rotating geometry

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- In this video I'm gonna show you some different techniques that we can use to rotate geometry. Let's take a look at this very simple exercise. If I shade this up, basically a clock face. I'm gonna show you how to create some of the basic geometry using various rotation techniques. Let's go to wireframe, and I'm gonna go to the work-in-progress layer. Let's go ahead and just touch on some basics about rotating entities. We're gonna go ahead and create a sphere. I'm gonna create a sphere in this location. I'm holding the Alt down, and I'm snapping it to one of those grid points like that. Now if I select this sphere, you'll notice that the pivot point is set right in the middle. If I go to Transform, Rotate, and if I say Reset, Global, let's say Go, you'll notice if I use my right mouse button 'cause I'm rotating in the Zed Axis it rotates along that Zed Axis which goes right through that pivot. Let's go back to Rotate. In this case, the local axis is also in the same location. If I…

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