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How to Auto-Orient a 3D object on a 3D path on only 2 axes?
Hi everyone, I’m new to Ae and I’m trying to experiment/explore new techniques.
I’m animating a paper plane along a 3D path. When I enable auto orient it auto orients it on all axes X, Y, Z. This is almost perfect, except I want to be able to control the banking of the plane, in my case the Y axis, independently. Is there a plug-in, script, expression, anything that could help me fix this?
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After auto-orienting to the path, you can still open up your rotation property and keyframes orientation or the XYZ rotation.
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Hi John, thank you for replying to this.
The problem with the approach you suggested would be that if I enable auto-orient I’d need to then manually keyframe the rotation of each frame of my animation to counteract the rotation of auto-orient on that axis. If I then change my mind on timing or spacing for the position values I’d need to keyframe each frame once again. Whereas if I were able to lock the axis I want to control manually, I could just keyframe the key points and then interpolate.
Let me know if you have a solution for this please.
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