Clockwise Spin or Rotation
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Fredo.... This is such a great plugin.
Just started to get familiar with it.
I am trying to animate a simple record turntable with a 45 rpm record spinning, but no matter what I have attempted I cannot get the record to spin in a clockwise direction(tried rotate as well). I set up the rotation axes on the Z axis first, and then when I go to set the rotation I use the protractor to register a clockwise spin. But the only rotation I can get is counterclockwise. I have tried -360° as well as 360° to no avail.
Am I missing an important step?
Thanks
Dale -
Difficult to say.... Could you post or send me the model.
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Thanks Fredo
The model is coming in too big to either PM or upload. I will try a workaround and get it to you somehow.Dale
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By the way, could you try to slow down the animation to perceive the direction of rotation. If the speed is high, the interactive animation may be misleading due to the stroboscopic effect.
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Well, this is interesting. I had intended to render the animation in Thea, and so had created grooves in the "record", to get that detail in the animation.
As it turned out this was a big part of the file size, so I decided to make a record without grooves so I could forward you something to have a look at. When I did the animation with the simpler record, it spun clockwise with no problem.
I had also done a few other things to the model to reduce file size, so I'm going to try the original with just the grooveless record and see how that works.
I will report back.
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Well Fredo you can stamp Solved on this post.
You mentioned trying to slow the speed down, and so I was experimenting to see if that worked. I inadvertently pushed the speed down until it went into the negatives ie: -90.00°/s, and that solved the problem, it switched from counterclockwise to clockwise.
I didn't realize this, so chalk on up to inexperience.
Thanks so much for you help.
Dale
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