Mesh Pivot panel¶

Look up the controls used to bake pivot changes into a static mesh asset.

Mesh Pivot area¶

Controls for permanently writing pivot changes into the static mesh asset.

Bake — writes the pivot offset into the mesh. Cannot be undone with regular editor undo. See Bake a Mesh Pivot.
Duplicate and Bake — creates a copy of the mesh, then bakes the pivot into the copy. The original mesh is preserved.

Freeze Rotation — bakes the actor's rotation into mesh vertices and resets the actor's rotation to zero.
Freeze Scale — bakes the actor's scale into mesh vertices and resets the actor's scale to (1, 1, 1).
Bake Scale Into Sockets — rescales socket positions when Freeze Scale is active. Sockets stay at the same relative location on the resized mesh. Has no effect when Freeze Scale is off.
Keep in Place — keeps other actors referencing the same mesh at their current world positions after the bake.

Bake by Actor toggle — enables baking relative to the last selected actor.
Match Location — bakes the pivot to match the reference actor's world position.
Match Rotation — bakes the pivot to match the reference actor's rotation.

Baking is supported for Static Mesh Nanite Assemblies. Two transform combinations are blocked — a warning appears and the asset is not modified:

See Nanite Assembly baking for details on both cases.