We’re doing a load of FBX exports to go into a VFX pipline into Maya.
We’ve been told that when imported into Maya, every object’s origin is at 0,0,0. So, when they want to rotate an object, they have to move object’s origin into the center of the object. With scenes with thousands of objects this is tedious.
As a workaround we import all our FBXs into Blender and run a script to automatically move the object’s origins to their volumetric center, then re-export the FBX from there. This works fine, but I wonder whether the Rhino FBX exporter could have this option built in?
Note that Rhino does not have a concept of object local space as objects don’t have their own origin. Everything is indeed in world space. For instance objects you orient in a certain way will not retain that information.
Export with origin works for these formats. So you could make a bounding box of your objects, select everything but your bounding box and run ExportWithOrigin and choose the corner you want.
Andrew, how do you get that ‘script’ to run, like are you a programmer AND a designer? I’m not a programmer, so this is mainly why I ask. Just curious how or where do you run such a thing inside of Blender. Cause, you’re not just talking about a simple pass through or import/export using Blender as a middle man of sorts, or are you? …Like, is the script downloaded from a website for FREE and then with just a few clicks you’ve got it centered in Blender? …Also, does Blender export (most of the time) better to .fbx file format than Rhino 6 does?