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Building the floor

Building the floor

Next, let's build the floor in this 3D world we are about to create. Trish showed you how to make the two elements that will make up our floor: the Grid Floor layer, as well as the Radar circle layer. I am going to drag in Radar first. You see it's quite a big layer, and that can make it a little bit tricky to figure out how to center it in the composition. If you are having difficulty centering a layer in the comp, just drag it down to the Timeline panel and it will automatically be centered. By default, new layers you add to comps start at Time 0. I want this Radar pre-comp to be part of a floor in the 3D world, so I need to enable the 3D layer switch for the Radar layer. Right now the radar is facing me straight on as if it was a wall. I need to make it a floor. So I am going twirl open its transformations and play around with its Orientation, or Rotation, to get it where I want it to be. Now normally I use the Orientation parameter to pose the layer in the X, Y, and Z rotation…

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