Okay, so in today's lesson we are going to have a look at another type of tool called the align tool.
Now last lesson we looked at the transform tool.
And it is one of the tools that are displayed here.
How the align tool.
While it is a tool, it's not featured in the same area that the rest of the tools are.
The align tool you will find in the model section over here under alignment.
Okay.
And this one will basically align two or more parts so that they are all organized and aligned up basically.
So to try this out, let's add two parts into the workspace.
That's a particle emitter, not a part.
There's one there and one here.
And for this here, my part here is going to be slightly uncentered like that's here.
Okay.
Now the line tool is a really useful way to align these up.
So select both of them and select the align tool.
Now the align tool is a tab that you can have on your screen.
Um I'm going to keep it where it is here.
The reason is because um I'm not going to have it active all the time.
I'm only going to have it open when I need it.
So it doesn't matter too much if it takes up a bit of the screen space, because it's not going to be
there for too long.
Okay, so there are three modes for this.
The first mode, um, aligns them at the bottom, second mode aligns them at the center, and the third
mode aligns at the top.
Um, you can either align in the world axis or the local axis.
Local axis isn't something we've talked about too much, but basically if your object is rotated slightly,
if we go into the move to axis, the axis stay the same even though the objects have been rotated.
These are called global axis because they don't change.
No matter what happens to your object, local axis will change, so a local axis will rotate as well.
So the Y will be going up this direction, x will be going down this direction and so on.
Okay.
Um, for this case I'm going to want to align it into the world.
And I'm just going to rotate them back so it has an easier job doing so.
Um.
Oh.
Perfect.
Okay.
You can either pick to align based on the X, Y, or z.
You can see the different options here.
If line along the x you can see it's going to be aligning it.
Or it did show you a minute.
Yeah.
You can see it's going to be aligning it where that little thing is there.
The yellow kind of um face.
That's where it's going to be lining.
It's at um center.
You can see it's going to be lining it there and the bottom, it's going to be lining it there.
Change this to be Y and you can see where it's going to be aligning there, there and there.
And then the Z you can see it's going to be lining there, there and there.
We're going to want to line it along the X.
And I want to align it based on that face there.
Let's press align.
And there you go.
It aligns the two objects together okay.
So very simple tool but is very useful.
Um why you might want to use this um, well if you have, if you follow my advice and you use the snap
to grid feature, you shouldn't really need the align tool, because as long as your move setting here
is about 0.1 studs, it's not too difficult to align things together.
Um, but let's say you forgot to do it one time.
The align tool might be very good way to clean some things up before you turn the snap to grid feature
back on again.
I also think the center option is very useful, even if even if you're not using the snap to grid.
Um, maybe if you have, if you want some objects to be in a straight line and maybe have like ten,
15 different objects, it might be easier using using the align tool instead of individually going through
and changing each one.
So B align tool, um, is similar to the transform tool, in which it's not something that's completely
necessary for you to do.
It's just good knowing about and keep in the back of your head in case there is a situation where you
might think, okay, it might be quicker here to use the align tool.
Okay.
So hopefully that's given you a good understanding of the align tool.
Um, and hopefully save save some of your time when you are making maps or whatever you're making in
Workbook Studio.
Okay.
Um, so practice that and join me in the next lesson where we're going to have a look at options.