Z+ or Z- ?

[Digital_red]

Hello, just wondering what direction people prefer to work in. I posted this on the old forums a while back but I thought a poll would be useful.

In the LW7 Manual is says to model facing the Z+ direction. But I see a lot of people like Larry Shultz and Proton (correct me if I’m wrong) seem to model facing Z-

Programmes/plugins like Motion builder and Autocharacter setup say import your character facing the Z+ (again correct me if I'm wrong)

Me, I prefer to Work Z+

[robewil]

I voted Z-. Maybe it's because I prefer to look in a positive direction. :D

[hrgiger]

You should have added one more to your poll saying "it doesn't matter which way I model".

Which is true for the most part. Certain plug-ins like ACS4 for example expect you to model facing one direction in which case you can always rotate your model 180 degrees if it's not facing the right way.

[Skonk]

One thing iv noticed is that if u model a char or a head facing +z then make a cylidrical uv map for the head, the seam is down the front of the head, which aint what u want, if the head is facing -z its fine.
So -z gets my vote :)


James..

[DigiLusionist]

If you're planning to model for animation, then Z+ is the obvious way to go, since most motion plug-ins and functions assume the object is facing the Z+ axis.