# Why doesn't the root component ever get set up properly?

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**Category:** Blueprint\
**Tags:** collisions, root, root-component, unreal-engine, question\
**Created:** [March 3, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-doesnt-the-root-component-ever-get-set-up-properly/1727562 "2024-03-03T16:41:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![MikelKram](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/mikelkram/32/1011745_2.png) [@MikelKram](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/MikelKram)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-doesnt-the-root-component-ever-get-set-up-properly/1727562/1 "2024-03-03T16:41:42Z")

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Why doesn’t the root component ever get set up properly?  
When setting it as the root component, it immediately shifts upwards.

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**Author:** ![Dlingr](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Dlingr](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Dlingr)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-doesnt-the-root-component-ever-get-set-up-properly/1727562/2 "2024-03-03T17:03:30Z")

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That’s probably because your SM\_Bullet mesh was modelled upward.  
The root component transform becomes the actor transform, it’s rotation / location will be determined by it’s rotation / location in the world so you can’t have a local rotation for this component in your blueprint.  
Just rotate the mesh in your DCC to align it with the x axis and it should be good.

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**Author:** ![jwatte](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/jwatte/32/744941_2.png) [@jwatte](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/jwatte)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-doesnt-the-root-component-ever-get-set-up-properly/1727562/3 "2024-03-03T17:30:43Z")

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The root component has no transform – it is, by definition, the same transform as the actor.  
If you want the root component to be oriented some other way, you need to model it like that.  
If you want to render something in a different way in an actor, you can’t make it a root component.

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**Author:** ![Rev0verDrive](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/rev0verdrive/32/907214_2.png) [@Rev0verDrive](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Rev0verDrive)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-doesnt-the-root-component-ever-get-set-up-properly/1727562/4 "2024-03-03T20:00:34Z")

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Just a heads up, Your Sphere collision component should be the Root.

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**Author:** ![system](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/7/1/3/713c9d3f58553f0de89543d76a8a3a2779dc9fa4.png) [@system](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-doesnt-the-root-component-ever-get-set-up-properly/1727562/5 "2024-04-02T20:01:03Z")

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