Screens vs paper. It’s why all the engineering software uses Z-up, since they came from a paper top-down view workflow. But many of the creative software uses y-up, since they exist to create art that gets consumed on a screen. Like animation and games.
Blender and UE4 uses z as up. Which was intuitive to me having been taught that in school but Looks like industry standard for 2d focused engines use Y up based on this comment from 2009. What a mess.
Maya and Unity both use the lefthand axis system which has Y as world up. Max is the one of the few that uses Z as up (DOH!!)
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Maya is fully able to translate between its own (Y up) and UE4’s (Z up) on export, so you can work “upright” in both without any alterations.
Screens vs paper. It’s why all the engineering software uses Z-up, since they came from a paper top-down view workflow. But many of the creative software uses y-up, since they exist to create art that gets consumed on a screen. Like animation and games.
Blender and UE4 uses z as up. Which was intuitive to me having been taught that in school but Looks like industry standard for 2d focused engines use Y up based on this comment from 2009. What a mess.
2022 comment: