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linking to start01 disrupts animation!?!

by Infinitum3D · in Artist Corner · 03/06/2009 (11:45 am) · 1 replies

I have a rotating fan blade (made from a cylinder, rotating around Z axis) I have a frame (made from a box with a few faces deleted). My fan blades spin just fine until I embed the shape. Then my blades start rolling around the Y-Axis. Not rotating, but rolling, like around the outside label of a can.

If I UNLINK, it goes back to normal rotation around Z. I can't export it unlinked (can I?) so I'm at a loss. I've tried unlinking the frame, and re-linking the blades, but anytime the blades are linked to start01 it gets screwy.

Any help?

Thanks,
Tony
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Torque Owner Infinitum3D
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03/06/2009 (12:21 pm)
I can't explain why it happened, but to fix it I had to go into the curve editor and manually redo the rotation along the correct axis. By trial and error I found that I could set the rotation along the X-Axis (I guess the embedding altered my axes somehow) and it works.

Thanks!
Tony