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How to make an orbiting circle a circle and not disk around another object?

Enthusiast ,
May 13, 2017 May 13, 2017

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I am trying to figure out how to make the little green circle a "globe" as it circles the larger one.  I got it to circle it perfectly but when it circles, it is a "1D" disk not a globe. Below is how I have everything set up - the null is attached to the MOON (the green one) and then Y orient makes the green one go around the blue one.

Any help is appreciated.  Thanks.

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People's Champ , May 13, 2017 May 13, 2017

Create an expression on the y rotation of the moon by alt-clicking on the y rotation stopwatch and then pick-whipping it to the nulls y rotation.  Then edit the expression by putting the whole expression in parenthesis and multiply it by -1. i.e. (EXPRESSION) * -1.   That should keep the moon always facing front (as long it's anchor point is centered).  Does that make sense?

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May 13, 2017 May 13, 2017

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Create an expression on the y rotation of the moon by alt-clicking on the y rotation stopwatch and then pick-whipping it to the nulls y rotation.  Then edit the expression by putting the whole expression in parenthesis and multiply it by -1. i.e. (EXPRESSION) * -1.   That should keep the moon always facing front (as long it's anchor point is centered).  Does that make sense?

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Enthusiast ,
May 13, 2017 May 13, 2017

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Oh boy I think I know why that expression method is not working now.  When I drew the small circle for some odd reason  that little cross hair thing (I think that's the anchor point?)  that's with it is NOT in the center of the circle.  I have no idea why because I drew it exactly the same way as the large one and the anchor is inside of that one.

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Can you tell me why that may happen? Can you tell me how to get the anchor back into the middle of the little green circle?

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LEGEND ,
May 13, 2017 May 13, 2017

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Can you tell me how to get the anchor back into the middle of the little green circle?

Ctrl+Alt+Home to center the anchor point or right click->transform>center anchor point in layer content

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That's great thank you Roei and Gutter Fish.

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