As far as I'm aware this is intentional, see the ticket I've originally merged this into. I'll check with the developers just to be sure. Which Pablo instructed you to report this @Pablo Dobarro (pablodp606) or @Pablo Vazquez (pablovazquez)?

Oh snap, sorry about that, it was not my intention to throw @Pablo Vazquez (pablovazquez) under the bus. During the podcast, I was asking if there was any plans to extend this functionality to numerical inputs. It's a bit unfortunate if this is intentional since it makes the affect origins option almost useless for precision placement.

For example, when exporting assets to unity, you need to put a 90 degree rotation on the x of your assets in order to have them aligned properly in game. So instead of just activating the affect only origins and doing the operation. You have to either rotate the object -90, apply transforms and re-rotate it 90 degrees prior to exporting, or place the 3d cursor and align your origin to it.

Link to the timestamp in the video.
https://youtu.be/oqjKMd9CYI4?t=2615

@Eric Jomphe (Velu) You can precisely rotate it through shortcuts, e.g. R + X + 90. What you actually want is in the file exporter options though. For instance in the .fbx exporter you can select which axis is forward and up. Similar options exist for other exporters as well. The options can be accessed by clicking on the gear icon in the file browser.

Thanks,, I appreciate the answer and the tips. The Unity Asset was a bad example as it distracted from the point that being able to input absolute values on origins is useful behavior.

The r+x+90 shortcuts don't allow you to insert an absolute value in cases where you're not starting from a neutral world position, which means to use that method you need to reset the origin, then do the operation 3 times if you want a specific rotation (r + x + 25/ r + y + 50 / r + z + 15 ). When you could just activate "affect only origins" and input the values ( 25 tab 50 tab 15 done) which is much faster.

@Eric Jomphe (Velu) I see what you mean. That would be a missing feature.

@Eric Jomphe (Velu) You can do this:

• make an Empty and put it in the desired orientation
• set pivot to Active Element
• select all your asset(s), keeping the Empty active
• enable Only Origins
• do a Object -> Transform -> Align to Transform Orientation, picking 'Local' as the orientation in the options

...which is, nevertheless, of course overkill if you just need to edit one object.

@Stanislav Blinov (radcapricorn) Thanks ! As it happens, I was actually looking for that earlier today.

@Robert Guetzkow (rjg) Fair enough :) I made a post on "Right click select" if you guys feel the suggestion has merit : https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/RMgbbc/

@Eric Jomphe (Velu) Thank you!