Rotating objects round null facing forwards??

[Chris Buttacoli]

All objects can be forced to always face the camera. It is called auto-orient, and I believe can be reached by right clicking the layer and choosing transform > orient.. something like that.

[Andy Galloway]

Hi mate,

There will be a better way of doing this but if you are rotating an object around a null you could apply the following expression to the objects y Rotation.

transform.yRotation-thisComp.layer(“Null”).transform.yRotation

Just insert the name of your null where it says “null” in the expression.

You will have to rotate your layers y axis individually so they all face forward properly. Also this will only work if the anchor point is centred to your object.

I’m sure there are much better ways to do this but that’s my fix.

Cheers,

Andy

[Darby Edelen]

[Andy Galloway] “I’m sure there are much better ways to do this but that’s my fix.”

There may be more complicated ways that will work with more complex parenting setups, but the set up you recommended is the one I would recommend in general.

+1 🙂

Darby Edelen

[Ben Hartley]

Thanks guys, much appreciated. perfect!

If it looks good, look at it.