So I’ve got my floating island that I want to have fence posts all around the edge, and I’ve seen online you can achieve this using the array modifier and an Empty at the center of said circle but uh… well mine has done something very strange. They just kinda get bigger and bigger
Any ideas what’s going wrong? I’m in version 2.9
P.S My category and tabs are totally stuck so sorry to anyone seeing this in the discussion in future
I’m sure merge should be off, but I started clicking randomly lol
Have you applied the rotation and scale on the posts?
Object offset will only move the next copy away from the previous one by the size of the object, touching in other words.
Hopefully, this will show you the settings and the origin positions at the same place both the empty and post.
Vary the distance X in my example and or the rotation of the empty in Z to suit.
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When this happens, as NP5 tels you, your rotating object isn’t clean.
Or your rotation is off center, like moving the empty OR object independent from each other.
What I always do, is to add another EMPTY as the parent of the object and rotation empty.
Blender uses world coordinates for your object and rotating ax. moving one of them will create funny but irritating effects. But parenting them to an object or empty, you can move this parent object to move the array objects.
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