Mirror modifier

[Evan Niemczyk]

When I use the mirror mod it mirrors the knee guard in front of the knee guard, how do I make it mirror on the side?

[Kent Trammell]

It sounds like your character’s orientation is different than in the video. It’s common for the Y axis (green) to be used as “forward and backward” in the 3D view. When that’s the case, mirroring in the X axis will be left to right.

If your character is facing in the X-axis (red) you’ll need to mirror according to the Y axis which is selectable in the mirror modifier settings.

But I recommend you work with Y as front-to-back since it’s the most common approach among Blender users.

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