From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 15 Creating a Sports Opening Title
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Adding the dial - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 15 Creating a Sports Opening Title
Adding the dial
The next thing I want to do while building our 3D world is to add another element that Trish showed you how to create earlier. I am going to back to the Project panel, choose the Dial layer, and drag it into the center of this composition. Now you might remember, your Dial layer was indeed a 3D composition. I'll look at it from one of the custom views. But currently in the Main Comp it's flattened it to being a 2D layer. 3D pre-comps do need a little bit of extra management to make them look right in a final 3D composition. Drag your Current Time Indicator to where you make sure you see all your dials, all the elements have been built on, and for now let's go ahead and solo just that Dial layer. I'll also return back to switches so I can see my 3D layer switch. Now right now this is a 2D layer. I need to enable his 3D layer switch to make it a 3D layer. However, we solved the problem. I'll press R to reveal rotation. As I rotate it you'll see that it's just a flat layer. But that's…
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