• Adobe After Effects

  How do I orientate an object using the blue 3d arrow?

  Posted by Roberts Adi on July 22, 2020 at 5:51 am

  I was watching a tutorial about a guy who orientated an image in 3D in AE. He used one of the X Y Z arrows [the blue one z] and flipped the image flat. Did he use any special keys to do this? Because everytime I click on the blue arrow after selecting the rotation tool, only the image flips. The x y z arrows dont rotate or flip. How do I use the arrow to flip orientate an image or object?

  Roberts Adi replied 5 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Filip Vandueren

  July 22, 2020 at 1:15 pm

  You can choose what the arrows should do, I think now by default they are in View Axis Mode: Up keeps pointing up.
  In the tutorial It would have been set to Local Axis Mode.

  There are 3 Axis Mode buttons on the toolpalette at the top of your screen (it Tools isn’t hidden)
  right in between the tools icons and the “Set Orientation/Rotation for 3D Layers” popup
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  Roberts Adi

  July 23, 2020 at 3:53 am

  Thanks very helpful

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