What direction should a model face?

pompomstu

Hi guys. I was wondering  what direction a model should face like the Z or X facing orientation. I heard some people can be fussy about the orientation when passing down a pipeline. Any help would be awesome.

Mink

Depends on the pipeline, entirely.

Unless you're in a pipeline, with like, other people, it doesn't matter.

And if you're in a pipeline, it does matter, but you'll know what orientation to use.

kanga

Mostly its general practice to have the model open face front.

Alex_J

seems like most programs I deal with start you facing down the z-axis, y is up, and negative x is left. And when new objects are created their local axis copies that. So pretty esay to jusut stick with that unless you are invidually placing unique objects in a composed scene, or you have a boss telling you to do something different.

pompomstu

Thanks everyone for the advice