Z and Y axis are in the wrong place.

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I received a recommendation to check this out, but the Z axis is interchanged with the Y axis and I can’t find any way to correct this.

When the 3d plane was envisioned, x and y were used across the ceiling as a flat plane, and Z was the vertical axis. Changing the Z and Y axis is unintuitive and not how the original coordinate system was envisioned.

Is there any way to fix this?

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There is no “correct” or “wrong” order for the axes, since it isn’t something universal across all 3D programs. See the documentation for a comparison across various 3D apps:

Therefore, there is no option provided to switch coordinate systems in Godot and there are no plans to add one.

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I’ve been in the field for over three and a half decades and I’ve only come across a few that switch the axis. There is a correct way which is how the coordinate system was first envisioned.

4

There really isn’t a standard.

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