threejs how to rotate around object's own center,instead of world center

Question

two objects in the scene. the cube rotate axis should be the cube\'s center,th

Answer 1

If your mesh is not rotating around its center, it is because the geometry vertices are offset from the origin.

You can automate repositioning by using a bounding box to define a reasonable center, and then offset the mesh's position like so:

var box = new THREE.Box3().setFromObject( mesh );
box.center( mesh.position ); // this re-sets the mesh position
mesh.position.multiplyScalar( - 1 );

Then add the mesh to a pivot object:

var pivot = new THREE.Group();
scene.add( pivot );
pivot.add( mesh );

In your animation loop, rotate the pivot;

pivot.rotation.y += 0.01;

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EDIT: A different solution is to translate the geometry vertices so the geometry is centered around, or near, the origin:

geometry.translate( distX, distY, distZ );

Or, alternatively, you could just call:

geometry.center();

which centers the vertices of the geometry for you based on the geometry's bounding box.

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