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Moving the rotation center point

Moving the rotation center point - InDesign Tutorial

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Moving the rotation center point

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- We've talked about animation using rotation settings in other videos, but there's an issue that often comes up that I want to show you in this video. While we can set the orientation proxy for an object when it rotates, sometimes we need the rotation center or rotation point to be away from the object. I want to show you a couple of tricks for compensating for the fact we don't have a feature for that, or at least we don't have it yet. In this case, I want this rocket to rotate around the planet Earth. I can set it to rotate 360 degrees, but I really want the center of rotation to be in the center of the Earth and there's no way I can do that. I mean, I can set this lower proxy, but that's only for the object itself. If we look at it in the Preview panel, we'll see that it does us really no good at all. I'm gonna remove that animation and I'll show you a little trick that in this case works really well. I'm going to create a new object. I'm gonna draw a circle that represents the…

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