How to Rotate Mesh but keep Shapekey Orientation?

Support Animation and Rigging
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Hi fellow Blender users,

I’ve created a rigged game character in Blender but rotated all the vertices by 90 deg. to have the local x-axis forward. I then proceeded to create shapekeys for the character. I realize now this was a mistake, as I can’t take advantage of Blender’s x-axis mirroring tools. Is there a simple way to rotate the character back by 90 deg. in the basis shapekey, but still keep the orientation and behavior of all the other shapekeys? Presently, if I try to rotate the character in the Basis key, all the other keys act weird (the vertices won’t respect the new rotation).

I’ve figured out a tedious workaround for this, but it sure would be nice to have access to those built-in x-axis tools again.

Any suggestions if this is possible?

Thanks so much!

~Adam

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What happens when you rotate the character in object mode, then apply the rotation?

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Wow!!! Thank you so much! I can’t believe how easy that was… you’re a lifesaver! :slight_smile:

Have a great week!

~Adam

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Have Fun! :slight_smile: