Welcome back everyone. In this video, we're going to talk about ways that you can move your actor. So to start in this discussion, I simply need an actor out here to move. So I'm going to drag and drop this SM underscore chair into our level. And the first thing you'll notice when I drag him out here is that we've got this three arrow widget on him, and that actually indicates that we are within movement mode right now, our three different modes here are movement mode, which is this three arrow widget, and if I hit the spacebar, this is rotational mode. And if I hit the spacebar again, this is scale mode whenever you see these boxes on the ends of these lines here, and if I hit the spacebar one more time, I am back in move mode.

So notice that the spacebar will toggle you between movement mode rotational mode and scale mode. Now, anytime you want to jump directly to move mode from any of these other modes, there are a couple ways to do so one would be to simply tap the W key, that'll jump you directly to it. Another way that you can jump directly to it is right now I'm in rotational mode right up here, there is this button that if you select this guy, that'll jump you into movement mode as well. So to move an actor, it's as simple as left clicking on any of these arrows, holding down the left mouse button and dragging in the intended direction. Now you can move them like this. You can move them on two axes, at once by grabbing this little square between two axes.

This is my x axis and this is my Y axes. You can also move them in all three directions. at once by grabbing this little circular icon right at the corner there, and this will actually allow you to move it in all three directions at once. Although I find that very difficult to do. So while the most common way is to simply left click and drag to move an actor in any one direction, you can actually move in another way and that is by coming through the Details panel over here in the right hand side, excuse me. So you'll notice that if you punch in some coordinate values, you can move it as well.

I've currently got a y value which is listed in green here, notice the green arrow right here. If I were to punch in a value like positive 100, and hit enter, I can jump it directly to a location that way. Other things to note here are when I am currently moving this actor if you look down here in the Details panel, looking at this value you will currently see that I'm moving it in increments of 10. The reason I am currently moving it in increments of 10 is because I have what is known as snap settings enabled. Right up here, this icon when I mouse over it, it says enabled or disabled snapping to the grid when dragging objects around. If I uncheck this, meaning it is not in orange, and I drag this to the left and the right, you can see looking at my Y value right here, that I am moving in very tiny increments.

I do recommend a lot of times when placing assets around your level that you do have snap settings on. And if you click right here, you can set your snap increments, you can set them up to move in increments of 10 unreal units, one unreal unit equals one centimeter, or you can set them up to something much larger such as a 500. So if I were to move my chair now, I gotta zoom on back You can see that now I am snapping it in very large increments. Going to go back to 10. Other things to note here is that you can move an object in worldspace or local space. Currently, you will notice that I am moving this object in worldspace because I have this Gizmo, this little button right here with a globe icon on now what is worldspace versus local space?

Well, the best way to demonstrate this is to firstly rotate this chair. Okay, right now, I am in worldspace, meaning if I wanted to move it up, I can move it straight up into the world. However, if I were to click this button, and I change it over to this box, the icon I am now in local space, which means if I move it, quote, unquote, up, I will move it up relative It's orientation. Last thing, I'm just going to jump back to worldspace. Here. Last thing to note that if anytime you want to move an actor along with your camera, all you got to do is hold down the shift key and then left click and drag, and you can move your camera while moving an actor that is a really, really handy trick.

I highly recommend it. Well, that's gonna do it all for this video on how to move actors. We'll see you guys in the next one.