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Subject: Drop to floor

exxe opened this issue on Jan 27, 2010 · 9 posts
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exxe ( ) posted Wed, 27 January 2010 at 9:38 AM · edited Sat, 11 July 2026 at 8:34 AM

How do I drop an Obj on the terrain,sometime I it seem like the obj is on the ground but it's actually floating in the air.

Sueposer ( ) posted Wed, 27 January 2010 at 10:04 AM

I used to love Poser's "drop to ground" command, but haven't found anything like it in Carrara. I manually drag the objects into place.
One trick is to move the hot point to the bottom of the object, then tell the hot point to go to z=0.

exxe ( ) posted Wed, 27 January 2010 at 10:07 AM

what do you mean by the hot point.

GKDantas ( ) posted Wed, 27 January 2010 at 10:12 AM

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 You cna try the collision detection tool, but for high density mesh like Vic you will need a little patiente. But in general people use the all viewes to be right about the place where chars are in the scene.

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Sueposer ( ) posted Wed, 27 January 2010 at 10:14 AM

Every object has a center and a hot point, often they are in the same location. You can find them in the properties pallete, under the MOTION tab. In the "transform" section you will find the x, y, z coordinates of the hotpoint and the center.
If you unclick "lock hotpoint" you can move the hotpoint.

exxe ( ) posted Wed, 27 January 2010 at 10:15 AM

Thanks!!

headwax. ( ) posted Wed, 27 January 2010 at 9:24 PM

 sparrowhawke has a great terrain following plugin could help

pauljs75 ( ) posted Sun, 31 January 2010 at 1:43 AM

Attached Link: http://www.sparrowhawke3d.com/Sparrowhawke3DPlugins.html

I was just going to say what the guy above me said.

In addition to the terrain follower, I think the transforms package also has a way of dropping things to the ground.

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holyforest ( ) posted Mon, 01 February 2010 at 8:28 AM · edited Mon, 01 February 2010 at 8:28 AM

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