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Driving animation with the new Drivers tools

Driving animation with the new Drivers tools - Blender Tutorial

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Driving animation with the new Drivers tools

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- [Instructor] One of the biggest improvements in Blender 2.8 has been the whole overhaul of drivers and how to add them, and a little pop up window that appears when you do add them. Let me show you. Let's go ahead and make a monkey really quick by hitting shift A and going to monkey. GZ, moving that monkey up, and now let's select this cube and hit N and right where it says location Y, let's right click on that and go to add driver. And here you go, the brand new driver sub menu. It's really handy, but like many of the sub menus in Blender it will disappear the moment you click off of it. So, let's go ahead and click on object and to go Suzanne and let's say wherever Suzanne's Z location is I want my Y location of this to change. Now, go to show and drivers editor, and that's going to bring up this cool little driver's editor over here on the right and just like in old school Blender I can hit end to get some real estate, I can hit G and Y and manipulate the driver editor so that…

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