Hi,
I’m trying to spin a mesh on itself, following this tutorial which starting at 26:37.
The problem is that the mesh rotates around the camera - I think - not on itself. How can I define the center of rotation?
I need it to present my designs so what I want to get are videos to export.
Thanks in advance!
The mesh will rotate around it’s pivot point. When you click the mesh, where is the pivot point?
In the center of the mesh where it should rotate.
Yes, I get that. But when you click the mesh, where is the editor widget? Is it in the center?
If I click the mesh I cannot see the editor widget, only if I click on NewLevelSequence and it was in the wrong position. I moved it to the center of the mesh but that didn’t change anything. If I understand correctly, are you referring to this?
Yes, that’s the pivot point. The turntable mesh also has one, and I think it’s totally in the wrong place. It must have one, zoom out a bit and take a look 
Thank you for the tip! I’ll try to look for it because I can’t see it …
Judging from what you’re saying, it’s probably near the camera…
There is an update: I replaced my design with a cube and it works.
I made the switch again and maybe I found the wrong pivot but I can’t move it in a functional way because it continues to rotate around the previous position. It is a pivot with a small sphere or cube:
This is where scene components get useful.
eg. this box has a pivot away from it on every axis.
But I’ve placed it into a scene component and positioned it centrally on that scene, so to move/rotate it normally I can just reference the scene rather than the box.
I’ve always used it for doors and in this case I hadn’t really thought about it! Thanks!
I did it maybe the wrong way but I did it: I converted the mesh into a blueprint to set the new pivot with the scene components and then I converted it back to a mesh because I didn’t know how to rotate the blueprint.
That’s the right way to do it ( apart from the converting back to mesh ), unless you want to use something like:
or export to Blender, fix, and the re-import…
Very interesting thanks!
Yes, in the end I noticed that pressing right mouse button on blueprint I could add trasform tab without conversion and I did so.
With Blender I had tried but once imported it pivot returned to the wrong position. I must have made some mistakes. I’ll buy pivot tool!
