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Moving a pivot point

Moving a pivot point - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Moving a pivot point

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- [Instructor] Now, let's move the pivot point of the sphere to the bottom of the sphere. And the reason I wanna do that is so that later when I wanna move and position my object in the scene, I can, for example, set the bowl onto a countertop by exactly typing in the value of the height of the countertop because right now, the sphere's pivot point is in the center of the sphere. If I select it and use the Move tool, we can see that the Move Gizmo is in the center of the sphere. All right, I wanna move that down so that's at the bottom of the sphere. Let's go to our Four-Viewpoint Layout with Alt + W, and I can position the sphere up so that it's just sitting right there on the ground plane, or the XZ plane of the world. And to move the pivot point, let's go over to the Command panel. And there's a new one we haven't seen yet, and it's the Hierarchy panel. Click on that, and then there are three sub-panels within that. The one we want is Pivot, and that's highlighted by default. To…

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