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  3D layer rotation: comp local axis vs rotation property

  Posted by Leopoldo Perizzolo on August 23, 2017 at 10:17 pm

  Hi everyone,
  I was messing around with some expressions when I stumbled across what I think is a “limitation” of AE…
  Basically, I noticed (nothing new, I guess) that given a 3D layer, the rotation property behaves very differently from AE’s rotation tool, the one that you select by pressing W on the keyboard (same is true for the orientation property).
  The issue that I’m having is that, while the rotation property rotates the layer according to a “hierarchical” order, the rotation tool allows for single axis control, even after sequential axis rotation (when set up in “local axis mode”, at least); THIS is what I’m aiming for.
  Now,
  My question is: Is there a way to convert 3 rotation values (my guess would be using some sort of trigonometric function) to those exact rotations that I would obtain using AE’s rotation tool?
  Thanks so much in advance for your reply! 😀

  Leopoldo Perizzolo replied 8 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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