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Wheel

Wheel

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Wheel

- [Voiceover] I am here in 08 07 Wheel talking about the Wheel automation. Wheel automatically rotates the layer based on its position value. So, what is this good for? Well, for animating a wheel, of course, without all that hassle of lining up keyframes and fine-tuning e settings. I'm going to preview this animation down here by hitting the space bar, and you'll see that I have this bicycle frame that goes past and goes back and forth and out of frame. The big wheel right here, this bike wheel on top, is connected and parented to this actual bike frame. The nice thing about the wheel automation is that it will work with something that has keyframes on it or is parented to something else. So, this bike frame here is where the actual animation is, and this bike wheel doesn't have any keyframes on it at all, but this wheel is where I want to add the automation. I'm going to go ahead and have "Bike Wheel" selected and click on the Wheel automation. The first thing it requires is the…

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