WEBVTT 00:06.000 --> 00:11.440 All right, let's take a look at the pivot point menu that we've got down here as well 00:11.440 --> 00:15.920 as the 3D manipulator area and its orientation. 00:15.920 --> 00:21.440 So in here we've got an option to be able to switch from the default median point to 00:21.440 --> 00:23.360 any of these other options. 00:23.360 --> 00:27.200 Now the median point isn't properly expressed really with this selection because we've just 00:27.200 --> 00:31.600 got this object and so the median point of this single object happens to be its origin 00:31.600 --> 00:38.440 point but if we were to shift and right select, so hitting the right mouse button with shift 00:38.440 --> 00:44.200 is going to add to our selection and now you can see that the pivot point has shifted to 00:44.200 --> 00:50.600 the average point between the two origins of these two objects which is right there. 00:50.600 --> 00:55.520 Now this object by the way has now become the active element and the active element 00:55.520 --> 01:01.800 is usually the last selected object which we can see with this lighter orange outline. 01:01.800 --> 01:06.680 Now that's useful to us because we can switch our pivot point to be the active element and 01:06.680 --> 01:08.480 now you can see that it's going to jump to that. 01:08.480 --> 01:15.560 If I shift right select this plane now, we've switched that to be the active object, that's 01:15.560 --> 01:19.920 now the active element and that's useful for other things in Blender by the way as well 01:19.920 --> 01:24.760 because if we were to just change the location x value of this one, in fact let's just change 01:24.760 --> 01:31.920 the y value some more, you can see that it's only altering this active plane object, it's 01:31.920 --> 01:37.880 not altering this cube object as well whereas if we were to right select on here and then 01:37.880 --> 01:43.640 copy to selected, it's going to copy from the active element to the selected elements 01:43.640 --> 01:47.760 so that's kind of a useful thing to keep in mind. 01:47.760 --> 01:53.160 Also there's several other options where we can copy settings of the active element to 01:53.160 --> 01:58.800 all the other selected objects so it's kind of like a useful hierarchy to have in mind. 01:58.800 --> 02:03.600 So let's switch over to the 3D cursor as a pivot point which we've kind of touched on 02:03.600 --> 02:08.040 before, I'm going to hit 7 on the numpad just to switch to top orthographic and now this 02:08.040 --> 02:14.040 means if I press R, I can rotate and we're rotating around the pivot point of course 02:14.040 --> 02:19.160 so the pivot point is now the 3D cursor so we can kind of change that to be whatever 02:19.160 --> 02:24.040 we want it to be but for now let's just switch it back to the average which is the 02:24.040 --> 02:28.280 median point and then press R again and you can see we're rotating around the view of 02:28.280 --> 02:33.120 the camera here of course which is why it might be simpler just to move from the top 02:33.120 --> 02:38.160 orthographic and you can see that that's rotating around the median point. 02:38.160 --> 02:42.200 One other thing about this pivot point menu is it's coupled with this option towards the 02:42.200 --> 02:48.200 side, if I press S now to scale we can see that the objects are getting larger, if we 02:48.200 --> 02:52.840 actually enable this option it's not going to resize the objects it's merely going to 02:52.840 --> 02:58.320 scale away from the pivot point so you can see that it's kind of going to explode out 02:58.320 --> 03:00.960 from that median point. 03:00.960 --> 03:06.800 I'm going to disable that option for now though and then we'll look over this area for the 03:06.800 --> 03:12.360 manipulator, currently on screen we can see the manipulator, we can see that it's a translation 03:12.360 --> 03:17.400 and we've touched on it a little bit, we've grabbed this plane and just moved it out by 03:17.400 --> 03:24.640 clicking on the green Y axis and you can see that we can click on this first button 03:24.640 --> 03:29.280 to basically hide it and you can do that with the control space key as well, we can toggle 03:29.280 --> 03:32.860 on and off the manipulator with the control space key. 03:32.860 --> 03:38.120 Then we've got these three icons, so the first one is for translation, this curve line here 03:38.120 --> 03:45.000 is for the rotation gizmo and then this final one here is for the scaling so what we can 03:45.000 --> 03:51.400 do is we can click on an axis and we can scale it along the X axis in this case, I'm 03:51.400 --> 03:56.200 just going to hit control Z to undo that, something else that we can do is shift select 03:56.200 --> 04:01.600 on them all and we can see them all there like that and then I'm just going to from 04:01.600 --> 04:08.840 the top view again press R to rotate and then middle click and drag out of that view just 04:08.840 --> 04:15.560 to rotate myself down here and then I'm going to switch from global to local and you can 04:15.560 --> 04:21.920 see the axis sort of all change for the manipulator there because we've rotated the local axis 04:21.920 --> 04:27.400 of the plane or of course rotated along with it and then we've got some other options here 04:27.400 --> 04:32.080 that we will come to later, so I'm going to switch that back to global just for simplicity 04:32.080 --> 04:36.600 in fact let's undo the rotation as well with control Z, so a couple of other things that 04:36.600 --> 04:45.120 we can do with this is well a first point is that what we can't do is use any hotkeys 04:45.120 --> 04:51.360 to switch between the currently selected manipulator type, there's a kind of another paradigm in 04:51.360 --> 04:57.840 blender for which to sort of move things around and for that we would just simply press on 04:57.840 --> 05:07.800 the G key to grab or translate really and then R to rotate and then S to scale and what we can 05:07.800 --> 05:15.560 do is rather than clicking on the axes here what we could do is sort of specify so we can press G 05:15.560 --> 05:22.840 and then we can press Y to lock it along the Y axis and then we can sort of move it to say about 05:22.840 --> 05:28.360 here and then just left click to confirm or what we can do is press just duplicate that again with 05:28.360 --> 05:35.400 G and then Y that same sort of action we can actually key in a specific amount so we can key 05:35.400 --> 05:42.360 in say negative 3 and that's going to move it exactly negative 3 blender units and you can 05:42.360 --> 05:47.440 kind of see down in the bottom of the tool shelf the operation that we've just done you can see 05:47.440 --> 05:52.880 that we've got negative 3 which has been done on the Y axis and you can see it was constrained 05:52.880 --> 05:58.720 along the Y axis and then some of the details as well so let's press we can also press F6 and 05:58.720 --> 06:04.720 you'll find that at the location of the cursor in the 3d view and also just in case you hadn't 06:04.720 --> 06:11.520 spotted it let's just do that again and left click on the Y axis of the manipulator and take a look 06:11.520 --> 06:17.040 in the 3d headers header bar all the information has obviously gone down here and we're just left 06:17.040 --> 06:22.000 with some stuff in the bottom left which is to do with the distance that we're moving and you 06:22.000 --> 06:29.280 can see that we're on a global orientation there and so what we can do is we can press G and then 06:29.280 --> 06:36.160 X to constrain on the X axis if we press X again we've switched instead of it being the global 06:36.160 --> 06:43.040 with it switched to the local so let's just rotate around the Z axis a little bit and then 06:43.040 --> 06:49.280 I'm going to left click to confirm that and then I'm going to press G and then Y to constrain on 06:49.280 --> 06:55.280 the Y axis but Y again and then we're going to shift to the local axis and then where I'm going 06:55.280 --> 06:59.760 to say five units and you can see it's kind of come over to here now so you can see that that 06:59.760 --> 07:05.600 can be quite a useful way of being able to specify which way you want to get around the viewport 07:06.240 --> 07:13.200 so also what you can do is we can shift select on an axis to lock it so we can't now move it on 07:13.200 --> 07:20.640 the Z axis because we shift selecting it and you can see it instead constrains along the X and Y 07:20.640 --> 07:27.120 axis so it's not moving up and down now which is quite handy in a lot of translations and we can 07:27.120 --> 07:31.680 do that with any of the axes so I can shift select on that one as well and we can see we've 07:31.680 --> 07:37.600 locked it that distance instead as though we're on a kind of a flat wall that we want to move this 07:37.600 --> 07:44.960 plane along somehow I'm just going to undo that with control Z though and let's talk about once 07:44.960 --> 07:50.720 we've selected and moved we can then hit shift and then we're going to sort of get a much finer 07:50.720 --> 07:57.360 control so I have to move the mouse a lot more to get it to go a further distance basically