Animate a rotation around an edge
Hello there,
Cheetah 3D noob here!
I am having a couple issues animating a rotation of a group of polygons around an edge.
In the start keyframe, I have my polygons in their original position. In my end keyframe, I have used the Edge Rotate tool to rotate the polygons around an edge to their end position. Points are keyed in the animation pane. I am having 2 issues:
1) the polygons rotate in the wrong direction. In other words, they rotate counterclockwise around the edge instead of clockwise (presumably because its a shorter arc by rotating counterclockwise). I have tentatively solved this by putting a key frame in the middle with the polygons partially rotated in the clockwise direction.
2) the real problem: the polygons seem to be resizing as they rotate around the edge. They get radically smaller as they rotate and then scale back to normal size by the end of the animation. I wonder why this is! Is there something I have to lock? Am I going about this all wrong?
Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you.
Hello there,
Cheetah 3D noob here!
I am having a couple issues animating a rotation of a group of polygons around an edge.
In the start keyframe, I have my polygons in their original position. In my end keyframe, I have used the Edge Rotate tool to rotate the polygons around an edge to their end position. Points are keyed in the animation pane. I am having 2 issues:
1) the polygons rotate in the wrong direction. In other words, they rotate counterclockwise around the edge instead of clockwise (presumably because its a shorter arc by rotating counterclockwise). I have tentatively solved this by putting a key frame in the middle with the polygons partially rotated in the clockwise direction.
2) the real problem: the polygons seem to be resizing as they rotate around the edge. They get radically smaller as they rotate and then scale back to normal size by the end of the animation. I wonder why this is! Is there something I have to lock? Am I going about this all wrong?
Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you.