The Ultimate Guide to SNAPPING in Unreal Engine! (Place Objects Quickly and Accurately) 

Hi everyone! Let me know if you have any questions abut snapping in Unreal Engine in the comments below! :)

Wow! I didn't know about it: 9:02 - Using vertex snapping in Unreal Engine 10:00 - How to set your pivot point to a vertex in Unreal Engine Thank you!

The "snap pivot point to vertices" tip was a life saver. The grid didn't work for me when trying to align larger objects on single unit increments, which was very frustrating.

Saved to my "never gonna rewatch but i feel good saving it" UnrealEngine playlist. xD

Alt + V + middle mouse button was really what I was looking for! Many thanks

Awesome video thanks - as a dev having recently switched from Unity this was a great help !!!

Thanks! Little tip about surface snapping I like: if press the End key (Fn + Right Arrow on Mac), the Actor snaps to the nearest surface.

Finally some chilled answers to my burning questions.

Note to all. Surface rotation snapping only works for static mesh and not actors/blueprint classes.

After using Unreal and trying to place objects in a house remodeling project that I'm working on, I can now understand why some games have objects floating in mid air or intersecting with each other. It is such a pain to place objects accurately in the editor when compared to Sketchup. Even in this video you can see how finicky the vertex snapping is. Sometimes when I try to use the vertex snapping, the object would snap to a vextex that I cannot even see from my perspective. I am assuming big developers would make customs tools for placing objects in their worlds or the level designers have insane levels of patience.

Moving from Roblox Studio to UE so this is really helpful thanks! (In Roblox Studio the auto floor snapping thing is automatically enabled)

Ctrl C for copy and Ctrl v for paste, this method worked for me.

Best Tutorial about Unreal level snap tips！！！！！Thanks

OMG Thanks for the alt+V+middle mouse button!

This should help a lot as I am a beginner to unreal. Thanks!

exactly what I am looking for, thanks for the video!

Thank you!!!

Helpful, thanks!

Such a great video !!! Thnx for helping beginner like me understanding UE editor a little bit better . pls do more tutorial videos about the pivot point if possible ! ...and is there a way to define/set the ground level in a map ? i think this video is the first lesson a beginner should learn

Are there default hot keys for increasing and decreasing grid snap increments? I can't find anything on Google about this.

This was sooooo helpful! thanks so much!

Just what I needed. Thank you for sharing!

Note: I was struggling trying to move the pivot point of a sphere to the base vertex so I could set it on a plane. I was able to move the pivot point but it would just go back to the center of the sphere every time I tried to move the sphere. BUT I was able to get the sphere to snap to the plane properly without moving the pivot point by just holding the Z value arrow on the move gizmo and pressing the "END" button. you must HOLD the arrow while you press the "END" button to get it to work though, you can't just highlight the object and press "END". FYI for all the noobs out there like me.

Thanks

this is really helpful, thank you!

Bro... This is what I was looking for. Thank you SO MUCH for the amazing explanation!

Amazing Tutorial. Thank you so much

thank you so much :)

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Very useful!

that was really really reallyyy helpful

Wow! Thank you so much! This was great!

thanks alot mate!

is there a way to snap curve points? For some reason holding v doesnt work when i move them

I wish I could just set ONE button to temporarily enable or disable snapping for move,scale,rotate without having to click at the top right

Hi can you tell me how to deploy Pivot via blueprints?

How do I do custom rotation angle snap like 13 degrees?

thanks too

thank you seriously

Great video. Cleared up a lot of things quickly. Far too few likes

10:05 do you mean Alt + V ? If i do this, i duplicate my object

snapping is not that great in UE 😏I am missing axis constraint like in Maya or Max when the pivot of an object is outside the viewport

Snap to floor” not working. on Version 4.6

Hi. What's the unit ? 50 or 100 of what ...

I am a vertex snapper

Thanks for the video! Tell me please how to align one actor to the other? I found shortcut in Editor Prefs "Align to Actor" and "Align Pivot to Actor". However none of them seems to work (in UE5). Thanks in advance!

how about giving snap function to an item that doesnt have Snap function originally. like a Smelter in Satisfactory for instance. this snapping function and snapping tutorial was useless ... you showed items that are already snapping. i thought i will learn something but meh.

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Great value

Thank you!!!

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