Hello all.

I was wondering if there is a way to reorient Carrara's axes to the more standard set up of x being left-right, y being vertical, and z being depth?

Thanks in advance.

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In the beginning the Universe was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

I forgot to point out that I am using Carrara 8, not 8.5.

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In the beginning the Universe was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

I usually do that at import or export, so not sure if it can be done any other way. Have you checked preferences?

:-/  No, there is no way to switch the axis.

Oh well. I was hoping to use Carrara to develop for games made in Unity, but the axis thing is a deal breaker.

Thanks for the information.

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In the beginning the Universe was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

But there are several poeple that use carrara and the Unity game engine. I have; been quite a while though.

Here's a free plugin for Carrara that might help. It still won't change Carrara's default coordinate system, but it might help convert a bunch of objects modeled in Carrara to a different orientation. 

http://www.sparrowhawke3d.com/TransformsPackagePage.html

I don't know if this will accomplish what you want, but you could send Jeremy, the developer, any suggestions as he has been very open to user input.

As an FYI, I've always simply reoriented the Carrara objects within Carrara prior to exporting as .3ds for Import to address the axis issue in Unity. 

I should have stated the obvious solution from the beginning, right? 

Yep.

its one of those things which is super easy AFTER you see it.

-Kix