How to alter a planes local axes?

Unity Engine
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When I create a plane it appears like a floor, but I want it to look like a wall. I can rotate the plane -90 degrees and apply a material to it and then it looks like a wall, but now the local XYZ axes are messed up. The Z axis is pointed “Up” instead of “Forward”. Is there a way to alter a planes local axes or a way to create a wall like plane? I’ve installed ProBuilder, but cannot find how to create this simple object with that tool either.

I’m trying to get a plane to “LookAt” the Main Camera, but because the local axes are wrong it never appears correctly.

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It’s easy:

Ctrl-K to make a ProBuilder Cube.

Select FACE mode (top buttons)

Select the front face (eg the direction you want to keep):

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Go to ProBuilder window and hit Invert Selection

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Now go to Probuilder window and Delete Faces.

Voila… a single remaining face, which you can texture, resize, etc.

Note how I have selected EDGE mode (top buttons) and dragged it larger than 1x1

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If you want to do more complex modeling, I’d reach for Blender3D. It’s worth learning… and this guy does a great job making tutorials for Blender3D with a LOT of detail on how to make it play nice in Unity3D:

Imphenzia: How Did I Learn To Make Games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3DOnigmLBY