reset the x,y,z location on an object to 0,0,0

alan bard newcomer

too many links involving axis and zero.. to get a hit...
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Object is at 500x, 20y, 200z (on the grid)  ... when it's parameters are set to 0,0,0
I can move it to 0,0,0 but then it thinks it's at 500,20,200... I want to reset it so it  reads 0,0,0 when I put it at 0,0,0
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how, where do I make its 0,0,0, match the scenes 0,0,0. --- I want to save it as a scene subset and then bring it back in at the center with it's parameters set to 0,0,0
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thanks

MarcCCTx

If it is a figure, check the both the figue and it's hip bone. Alot of poses move the hip of a character.

alan bard newcomer

thanks...  
but it's just an object ..  and it's default position isn't in the world center even when it's object centered..
so it needs it's object center to be changed to the world center

 

I can move it to the center but I want to reset it's default coordinates...

Richard Haseltine

If it's a prop, just export as OBJ with it at the origin, then import that OBJ and reapply materials.

alan bard newcomer

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first time I tried it didn't change the numbers
but exported it again and turned off "write object statement  option" and it worked..
thanks

laststand@runbox.com

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Silver Dolphin

This is something that should be a button or a command in Daz studio >>> making a prop or character reset to 0,0,0<<<

Mattymanx

Silver Dolphin said:

This is something that should be a button or a command in Daz studio >>> making a prop or character reset to 0,0,0<<<

Make a feature request please

alan bard newcomer

and nope..  just tried it again and it's not doing it... did one object three times..  exported from the center and still come back at -6700 x, etc

 

Richard Haseltine

alan bard newcomer said:

and nope..  just tried it again and it's not doing it... did one object three times..  exported from the center and still come back at -6700 x, etc

That is unexpected, to say the elast. Please post a screenshot of the OBJ export and import options.

alan bard newcomer

I've been tossing stuff back and forth between daz and max with no problem
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but these are set of architectual object I bought and the person who put them together put them all in one file. 
the 30 separate items came in as one in daz ---  or as 30 in max .. but for some reason there position data is locked to where they were in the original positioning.. 
and even in max I can't reset them to 0 because according to the data box they are at zero....
but at least when I import them the pivot for moving is right at the bottom instead of miles away...  but the use their spot in the big file as their absolute point... 
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so I will do some more research there..  I actually brought them in.. put them in the center .. exported them and re-imported and they still have their original setting point.. maybe I need to find out about editing object files...  that has to be a header setting or such

 

alan bard newcomer

okay. if I bring the object into daz...  put it on center, even though it thinks it's at 120,-300,-4000, and then export it as fbx and then import it .. it is centered and  says 0,0,0
so I can convert them to work with standard increments
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and having done that .. once again I went to the original object, 234,-456,20 exported it as an object 
reimported it and tada this time it says 0,0,0.....
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excuse me while I go away and quietly gnaw on my arm a bit...
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brought in a new object.. centered it .. it reads 100,-72,17, (these are extracted from 30 objects in max that came in as one file so their coods are all different. 
exported as object brought back in it says 0,0,0.. 
so perhaps the fbx export import changed some flags or internal settings? 
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anyway .. it seems to be happy again... 
 

 

 

Richard Haseltine

Right, that is what I was addressing in my earlier post - you need the item to be at the origin, regardless of what the coordinates say, then export and reimport. If the thing is modelled off-centre, which it clearly would be if it was part of a gorup of items in a single file, then off-centre is its zero position as originally imported.

donalddavis

I am sorry to necro this thread, but this is the same thread I keep getting when I search for this every year or so. 

There is a much easier way to resolve this issue and I wanted to share.  Also, when I inevitably forget this solution, I will find it here. :D

1. Select the figure that is off from 0,0,0
2. Edit -> Figure -> Memorize -> Memorize Figure Pose
3. Edit -> Figure -> Zero -> Zero Figure Pose

This should reset the figure to absolute 0,0,0

I hope this helps.

 

n.jmurov

donalddavis said:

I am sorry to necro this thread, but this is the same thread I keep getting when I search for this every year or so. 

There is a much easier way to resolve this issue and I wanted to share.  Also, when I inevitably forget this solution, I will find it here. :D

1. Select the figure that is off from 0,0,0
2. Edit -> Figure -> Memorize -> Memorize Figure Pose
3. Edit -> Figure -> Zero -> Zero Figure Pose

This should reset the figure to absolute 0,0,0

I hope this helps.

Did not help at all, although the advice might have been intended for simple props.

This has been a long-standing problem for me. Although I can't say I've tried very hard to resolve it but a few threads on this form were not helpful. Sometimes I save a human figure as a scene and the location or rotation of the figure are not exactly all zeros. When I then bring the figure back in and apply a pose that is intended to place the figure at 0,0 - even I place the figure at 0,0 manually before I do that - it never works, the figure goes to some wacky location that is saved somewhere within the file, I guess, so the figure always gravitates to it. I've tried zero object, zero figure, zero pose and whatnot. Obviously, with a human figure it does not make sense to try exporting and then re-importing it as .obj as all the rigging will be lost.

 

n.jmurov

So if I choose Zero Figure it goes NOT to 0,0,0 but to some other X,Y,Z location. If I bring the figure manually to 0,0,0 and then apply a pose that is intended to put the figure at 0,0,0, it goes back to that X,Y,Z location. Same happens if I use memorize. This seems to be random and wrong. Guess I need to unarchive the file and search through it for where that random location is stored and do all the other hard work :-(  

n.jmurov

If I resave the object as a scene subset at 0,0,0, it does not work either. When I reload the figure and try to apply a 0,0,0 pose, it takes it to the same X,Y,Z location as the one before saving. A rather blatant bug in my opinion.

maymeanshope

Wow. This truly is a button/feature DAZ needs to add to their app! To be causing issues EVERY YEAR OR SO as Don Davis stated above. 

IF your model whatever it is, be it a girl or a prop gets pushed or pulled off its 0-0-0 coordinate in DAZ, simply hit Parameters then choose your model. From there you will notice one or more of the X Y Z coordinates are NOT 0. Do something about that... then have joy.

Prospector

Wouldn't that be nice? Still not in 4.22. Put a set of high heels on girl and watch the numbers go wacky. When exporting FBX the body goes to 0 and shoes go thru floor and gets all bent out of shape.

WendyLuvsCatz

there are a few scripts floating around to do this Richard Haseltine needs to add to his scripts list if I can find them all

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjzeroorigin

is the only one out of the 3 I have that I can find a link for

the others do slightly different things

RH has linked

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/nodes/node_origin_center/start

Stem at home made https://hpclscruffy.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/7413816/#Comment_7413816 a useable version

and both alan bard newcomer and myself have multiple threads asking for this that come up in search  without answers which did not help searching Google