I’m testing the instancing properties and it seems tracking axis has no effect: no matter what direction I pick, the orientation of the instanced object doesn’t change.
Am I missing something?
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Each object has such property. So, It is possible to make a mistake by changing it on wrong object.
Be sure that you change Child tracking axis. -
When Instancing by verts is used, option to rotate instanced is disabled by default. You have to enable Align to Vertex Normal option.
Hm… I keep trying but nothing is changing here.
Here’s the file, in case you may want to take a look.
instancing.zip (88.4 KB)
You’ll notice that changing Tracking Axis or Up Axis has no effect.
Can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.
Select the Cube. Set Tracking axis of the Cube to +Z and its Up axis to Y.
Thank you!
I must admit, this part of the interface it’s really confusing 
At least it would help if when the parent object is still selected, Tracking Axis and Up Axis would be greyed out as the Parent Type.
Thanks for helping!
It is a very old part of blender that is not only limited to influence instancing but also constraints and particles.
So, parent’s data can be used anywhere else. And there can be a cascade of instancing.
That is reason why it can not be greyed out.