Rotation point for prefabs

[Springheel]

I'm starting the process of creating drop-ready prefab buildings using my modules.

 

Anyone know what the rotate point is for prefabs? I thought it would be the origin of the map (0,0,0) but that doesn't appear to be the case. I'd like people to be able to rotate the prefab to see it from all angles, but it currently rotates so widely that it leaves the viewing area.

[Bikerdude]

Anyone know what the rotate point is for prefabs? I thought it would be the origin of the map (0,0,0) but that doesn't appear to be the case.

As I understand it, when I have created models or prefabs I have do so with the item at 0,0,0 in the map before exporting it. Then when viewed in DR its stays centered in the viewer as you rotate it.

[Melan]

Yeah, you have to move the prefab close to (but not exactly to) 0,0,0 before you save it.

[Springheel]

I did that. It's centered in the viewer but it still rotates widely.

[nbohr1more]

http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=4443

 

What DR version are you using?

[Springheel]

You can see in the video that the model is centered on the map origin, but you can't rotate it in the viewer to see the other side.

 

[Springheel]

http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=4443

 

What DR version are you using?

 

You can set a new rotation point? How? I have the most recent version but don't know how to do that.

[Spooks]

In the video you're only showing a weird rotation inside the prefab viewer, so I assume that's the problem? Ever since 2.0.3 or so, Dark Radiant's prefab (and model?) viewers changed from rotation around the origin of your pf/model to 3D viewport controls. You're not seeing the prefab rotating weird due to a wrong origin, that's on the camera. If you right click the viewer window, in fact, you can go into freelook mode just like the 3D viewport.

 

I think it was brought up once or twice in the DR release threads and I don't honestly know if it was intentional. Me, I don't really like it that much, since now some prefabs with bad origin points are invisible and impossible to spot in the viewer.

Edited March 12, 2017 by Spooks

[AluminumHaste]

Well, this might not be that difficult to fix (I know, shut my mouth).

There is already code to find the center of the bounds of an entity or group of entities.

The viewer could generate the center of prefab.

[Bikerdude]

Ever since 2.0.3 or so, Dark Radiant's prefab (and model?) viewers changed from rotation around the origin of your pf/model to 3D viewport controls. I think it was brought up once or twice in the DR release threads and I don't honestly know if it was intentional. Me, I don't really like it that much, since now some prefabs with bad origin points are invisible and impossible to spot in the viewer.

If that was the case then all models would be effected.

 

@Springheel, your video is very low res so can't tell what your doing. That said I don't think the origin of the model has been placed at 0,0,0. And is the model. a FS before its exported to .ASE? If the model is .LWO then the export trick isnt going to work as DR wont be making any changes to the model.

[Springheel]

The problem is that the prefab viewer doesn't have the same rotation controls as the model viewer. It only has the freelook rotation option, using the right mouse button, which by default sets the camera/rotation point a distance from the prefab. There doesn't seem to be any way around that.