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  “ring of cows” question

  Posted by Charlielemon on July 9, 2007 at 2:05 am

  Hey, I was wondering if anyone else tried that “ring of cows” tutorial.

  I seemed to be abel to do everytihng right, but whern it came to the last step where it says:

  Unparent the last layer from the null layer at the beginning of the timeline.
  Cmd(or Ctrl)+right arrow to go one frame further. Then unparent this also from the null object.
  Do this for all the layers.
  When you look in the custom views you will see the layers get placed in a ring position.

  can anyone better explain this? It seems like its saying unparent each layer on a different frame, but I thought (un)parenting was either always on or always off, I didnt think it mattered what frame you do it on.

  Xijjix replied 18 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Xijjix

  July 9, 2007 at 10:28 am

  Basically, you have all your layers in a clump in one spot. You then unparent one layer, and rotate all the rest of the layers around an anchor point away from the layers. You then unparent another layer, and rotate the rest. After every rotation you leave a layer behind. The going forward one frame just allows you to skip the math, because if you are using linear keyframes AE will automatically distribute the layers evenly. The parenting/unparenting is merely for spreading the layers, when its done you’ll want to reparent all the layers back to the null.

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